http://www.savagevines.com while I have done things that I might regret, I do no forget that I am still alive. A blog by Ian Sheridan. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:25:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "sometimes fate likes to tease and laugh at you" - Linda Sheridan I though that is was a great little line that we all experience. :) http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2007/09/19/quote-of-the-day/ ...you'll Realize that the programing world has passed you buy. I was reading Joel Spolsky's latest article this morning and was compelled to mention it here. Joel talks about how the future of AJAX will lie in a as of yet created SDK that will compile to javascript and allow ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2007/09/19/sitting-on-your-googlechair/ How do you tell your daughter how beautiful she is? 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 ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2007/01/03/how-do-you-tell/ Let me answer this right from the get go. No, it is not bribery. In the very first line in the afore linked to Wikipedia entry it states that it is a "crime implying a sum or gift given alters the behavior of the person in ways not consistent with ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/12/29/is-accepting-a-review-laptop-bribery/ I was reading the blog sphere and I came across this article that I find to be a great way to think about what programing is and and what processes we all use to make what we make. I design and code enterprise applications and to date I have never ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/12/26/spoon-does-it-exist/ Well I have finally decided to post again and I just had to share some highlight pictures from my recent Italy trip. http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.sheridan/Italy2006Highlights http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/11/14/180/ This article make my heart ache. I read it and see that I do not work for an organization that understands what Joel Spolsky talks about in his article The Development Abstraction Layer. I hope to one day work in a development shop like that. So if you want to ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/04/11/heart-ache/ After being here for well over 4 years I have finaly been noticed. I had done some Ajax research and I wanted it in a place that I could get to it where ever I was. So I placed it up on my website here. To my amazement it has ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/03/06/ajax-has-gotten-me-noticed/ LOL A great song for the geek in all of us. http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2006/01/10/the-geek-song/ HAHA I was reading this fellows post about drinking like a Russian and while reading the comments I ran across this great comment: 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 ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/12/27/drinking-like-a-russian/ In thinking OOP these days and going back and forth with PHP and ColdFusion and Web Design I ran across Chris J. Davis's tutorial about this very subject. I found it easy to follow with a few insights into OOP in PHP to boot. But since I am a CF ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/12/14/dynamic-css/ I was reading my friends blog and he wrote a review of the new release of Star Wars. It got me thinking... remembering. 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 ... ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/12/02/remembrance-of-star-wars/ Dream in the beutiful light of Manhattan in day of night while clear your cluttered mind of all the jetsom and flotsom of day to day to day living. Come down to me with your bright halo of knowldge and see that it is but glass to look though and see ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/11/30/come-down/ This is a topic that I really have to bone up on. I have shied away from this subject too often. Kevin McCabe mentioned it on his blog and I ran with it. Both articles that he points out are great and I learned a bunch. Writing a functional spec ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/11/29/writing-a-functional-specification/ Subversion (SVN) is the only versioning system that I use in my development toolbox. I also am a mac user (home and work). So while reading the comments on Raymond Camden's blog entry about source control I see that at least one wayward Mac user need some direction with SVN. Very ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/11/21/subversion-on-mac/ As I do on most mornings I read through different blogs and webzines. I ran across this small gem of a non-tech entry in one of my tech blogs I read (this one by Mike Kruger). A great entry that made me think about my daughter and I just ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/11/14/breakfast-and-monkeys/ As I grow and get to know the things and people around me I disconver the absolute bottomless ocean of wave after wave of energizing knowledge. When we see that life is not just ours we come to a place that everything is. Take these little glimpses into my collection of ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/10/18/i-grow/ The title of this entry says it all. For me to go back to Dreamweaver (DW) after so many years of "Homesite/CF Studio" and then this past year with CFEclipse, would be a big step backwards as far as my tool suite goes. Yes I am very familiar with DW, ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/10/06/dreamweaver-8-why-bother/ Well again I am drawn to what Ray has done for the community. He took apart the debugging template for for CFMX7 (as is obvious by this little snippet "cfusionmx7\wwwroot\web-inf\debug") and created on much more to his liking and to mine :) . He talks about lookign for a more ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/10/05/change-the-debugging-output-for-cfcs/ Ray talked about being asked to include images in the RSS feed available through the BlogCFC application. Interesting that it is a Yahoo included functionality in a RSS feed. I have in the passed included images in the exerpted that is included in a RSS entry but I have never ... http://www.savagevines.com/archives/2005/10/03/media-in-rss-feeds/