while I have done things that I might regret, I do no forget that I am still alive. A blog by Ian Sheridan.
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 guy all of that can easily be translated to CF with no problem. I might take a crack at it. 
edit: updated the link tot he article I talked about.
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 … 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!
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 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.
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 is something that I can talk about at length but need to actually do.
<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>
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 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.
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 could not remember something she said that was similar to what Mike had talked about.
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.
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 words and knowings and carry them carefully into you.
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, but it cannot stand up against what Eclipse is offering me. The biggest difference being cost ($399 for DW, dont even mention the studio … $999 anyone?, and $0 for CFEclipse). Please don’t mention support. How many times have you needed to call in for support of DW or any of the studio apps? Yes they are good products for designers but taking a WYSIWYG design app and repurposing it for a coding platform has always felt wrong for me and many others. Hence why most people used CFStudio and Homesite for so long after it was abandoned by Macromedia.
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:
It all adds up.
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 of a summary instead of a detailed “method call” after “method call” type report.
This gives me some ideas that I want to impliment for myself.
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 included a peice of media in the feed itself. Is this option needed… no but we all like our toys don’t we?
If you want to read more of what Ray said hop on over.
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