“sometimes fate likes to tease and laugh at you”
- Linda Sheridan

I though that is was a great little line that we all experience.

I for one hope that this does come true, but I will go further to say that it is already happening. We have libraries out there, like jQuery, that already handle a lot of the cross-browser issues that we as AJAX developers experience. The one issue that Joel mentioned which I think is a big one is the CSS one. I would hope that in the future that one of these libraries pick up on this as they have with the way JS behaves on different browsers.

You tell her that she is the type of beauty that pull your heart out of your chest and puts it on your face to bask in the sunlight of her beauty. You tell her that she will never be in the dark because of the bright twinkle in her eyes. You tell her that you can bask in the glow of her wonderfully vibrant soul forever. You tell her that you love her.

- me

I am writing about this because of an article written by Joel Spolsky, a well known software developer and writer. He states that it is unethical for a blogger to accept a “review” laptop from Microsoft, who recently have been sending out laptops with the new vista OS installed. I think that he is speaking from a totally inexperienced perspective and without that knowledge is ignorant of something that has been standard ethical practice for many years in the “review” industry. The argument that he should of stated is “are the bloggers that are accepting these ‘review’ laptops altering their behavior in ways not consistent with the duties of that blogger”. This is where we get foggy. If the blogger has nothing to do with software or say the Information Technology industry. Then yes it would be unethical to accept this gift.

BUT Joel goes on to argue that he deems it unethical for him to accept this “gift”, implying that any other blogger that accepts the gift is also unethical. Well as some one that has a better reputation and experience then me in blogging about software development I think he is a prime candidate for reviewing Microsoft’s new windows operating system. He is free to decline the “gift” and to cast the gift “giving” by Microsoft in a negative light. But to call accepting the gift by other bloggers a crime is truly stretching the word “bribery” to it’s foggy limit. While I agree that Microsoft is deserving of the “bribery” accusation I do not think that bloggers should be cast in the same light.

The article talks about how when the author was studying some very productive teams that they did not use a single methodology over and over again but used what they needed at the time. I find that I follow the same less trod path of discovery of tricks and is mentioned int he article. By tricks let me give you and example, to map out the flow of and application I used the post-it notes on a wall. Simple straight forward and just a trick.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.sheridan/Italy2006Highlights

*sigh*

It all started with Leland Scott including me in the list of sites he used in his research. Then moved on to other authors talking about his article. My view on this is that it is interesting where Web 2.0 is going. I say that it is what terminals were ment to be. With the ability to truely leveradge the modern design of applications today on a distributed network. No longer will you have to buy a whole sweet of applications to run on all the computers in your office. You will now be able to purchase access to them on a monthly basis or per use OR just a server to hook up to your network with the web application you want on it. The one Web2.0/Ajax application that has captured the number one spot my most used website list is GMAIL. The prime example that always comes to mind when thinking on this subject. It’s nothing special. The application is not earth sharttering but it works perfectly and I use it every day.

So thank you all and I hope that what I have made to help me has helped you.

Raw eggs, shots of olive oil, sticks of butter - are you trying to drink or get the shits? Good grief - just give me a case Bud and a bucket of KFC…

LOL this just tickled my funny bone.

edit: updated the link tot he article I talked about.

Every time I think of the orgininal Star Wars I remember going to the city (manhattan for those of you that are not New Yorkers) to the … oh damn I forget the name of the theatre but it’s that famous one for movies in mid-town … Zeigfeld to see Star Wars. There were People in costums, there was specticle even before the lights went out. I was a little kid squirming in my seat waiting, eating too much of the popcorn, for the lights to go out. Looking up at my dad. The lights went out and I fell into a world that swallowed me whole. I still get chills.

Since then the “lightSaber” was a constant childhood weapon my brother, my pals, and I used to sword fight. When “Empire” came out it was Yoda’s voice, “Rubber am I, glue are you, affected me you have not”.

Man it’s fun going down memory lane. Till next time my fellow Jedi. cya!

Come down to me with your bright halo of knowldge and see that it is but glass to look though and see better the light at the end of waking.

We are the god given the back broken. Come down to the heavy heavy ground and leap downward to break free of the ties of the heart.

Have joy in the knowing that knowing is not. Give unto me your violant seeming of tightly held illusions and I will pass back the same. We are the same.

<rant> OK this pisses me off. people start a blog and say not a single thing about who the heck they are! I had to do a WHOIS to get Kevin’s name. hehe man please please at least make a simple pagelet and put some basic info about yourself in it with at least your name. </rant>

Very easy to impliment and use. I did three things, though for most only the first two need to be done. I downloaded/installed SVN. I installed Subeclipse and I got it all working with Apache so I could access the repository via Webdav.

Download the Subversion package that Metissian put to gether. You don’t need to do any compiling it just installs and works. BOO-YAH!

Then head over to Subclipse and install it. very easy. The directions they give make it very easy on you. Oh YEAH!

Ok Done for those of you that are happy with getting it installed and using it with Eclipse.

I went an extra step and installed Fink on my machine so that I could get a version of Apache with the mod_dav_svn.so module installed. Well I used fink to install this package: libapache2-mod-svn. Once you do (warning you need a good amount of time to get this done) you need to edit the /sw/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to have this set up:

LoadModule authz_svn_module /sw/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_svn.so
<location "/svn">
DAV svn
SVNParentPath "/Library/svnrepos"
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile "/Library/svnconf/svn-auth"
Require valid-user
</location>

The “SVNParentPath” option can be switched with “SVNPath” if you will only have one repository. Me? I have a bunch. If you have any questions comment away I’d be glad to tell you more.

I am sure she did say something but still it sent that warmth through my heart thinking about her and how smart she is. She amazes me all the time on how perseptive she is. Her desire to be heard is very strong. And I have to remember not to squelch any of these qualities that I admire in my daughter.

Take these little glimpses into my collection of words and knowings and carry them carefully into you.

So here is my respose to Tom Lane and his comment that were posted on Damon Cooper’s Blog.

“Please! of course you would be saying that you love DW. You worked on the darn thing! how long has it been since you’ve had to really use a good IDE to code with? You guys have a long way to go to offer the suite of tools that Eclipse has right now. Let me also point out that Macromedia is now putting it support behind CFEclipse.”

here is a list of things that I use Eclipse for:

• XML editing
• CSS coding
• HTML coding
• CFML coding
• PHP coding
• DB management and SQL coding
• Version Control Management (SVN mostly but as you might know CVS too)

It all adds up.

This gives me some ideas that I want to impliment for myself.

If you want to read more of what Ray said hop on over.