Casual Rumblings

It's a slow day in a little east Texas town. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything.

However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today.

Can anyone tell me if there's any difference from using:

Aptana Studio with CFEclipse plugin
vs.
Eclipse with Aptana plugint + CFEclipse plugin

They both do the same thing. I'm using the latter and am wondering if I'm missing out on anything by using the former?

I'm having trouble with Aptana + CFEclipse. I can't open any CFM files after I install the CFEclipse plugin with Aptana Studio. I get a java.lang. error. But, using Eclipse/Aptana/CFEclipse, I can open my CFM files.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and cleaning up the registry on my WinXP Pro box, but the Aptana issue keeps cropping up.

Sooooo looking forward to going back to DW CS4....

Anyone else find it gratingly annoying when they see people refer to CF as 2 words?
I see job postings with 'coldfusion' and 'cold fusion'. I've learned to look for jobs on CL and other job sites in this manner.

Argh!!

Ok, I just downloaded the latest and greatest Redmond browser. I have to say there are some good things and then of course, there are bad things. It's by far worlds better than IE 6, but it's still....Internet Explorer.

Here's a thought...Why doesn't M$ just stop making IE altogether? Seriously? They've made web development a headache since day one of IE. Tried to gain market share and control how to program for the web. That failed miserably.

Suggestion? Why not have M$ partner with FF to help distribute with their OS? MS won't partner with the other browsers (Safari? ha! Ballmer and Jobs partnering?, Chrome? ha! Didn't Ballmer want to eradicate google from the planet?) Just makes sense to me if M$ and FF partner. We'd be so much better off with web development and "standards" compliance.

Ok..time for me to get off the hookah heheheh

Oh...Bring Down IE6!

I saw a brand new BMW 3 series blow by me on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge with the license plate: ADBE AIR.

First thing that went through my mind was, "wow...now that's a fan" Then it hit me, "maybe it's an adobe employee who created the technology?" "maybe it's an evangelist for AIR?" "maybe it's just a really big fan of the technology?"

It's no big deal, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of the CF/Flex/AIR world that there's someone out there touting their love for the technology.

FORMATTING YOUR DATA DRIVE TO DO A FRESH OS INSTALL, instead of your OS DRIVE?!?!

AARRGGHH!! Now looking for a good NTFS Data Retrieval software package. ARGH!!

I could just bang my head on a brick wall until I wake up from the floor right now.

:: breathe....breathe...::

UDPATE:
Using a program called GetDataBack for NTFS, I was able to recover most of my files!! yay! Most importantly I got back my wwwroot directory under inetpub...PHEW!!

Now I have to deal with all my MP3 files and photo files named something cryptic like, "AA300DF.JPG" and figure out what it is by opening it up first. OH FUN!!!

Highly recommended...Get GetDataBack for NTFS. Worth the $80 price to get back your data.

http://www.getcoldfusionjobs.com/job-seekers/job-search.php
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If you're planning on attending Web 2.0 Expo coming up, you are going to want to use this discount code.

Registration Promo code: obama22 = 44% discount.

It works! I just did a faux registration with it and the full conference pass @ $1,395 was chopped to $781.20.

Not sure how long it will work (meaning time or # of uses), but get on it fast if you want to save some big bucks :)

Well, looks like the economic downturn has REALLY affected me as of late.

I've been trying to look for good steady work (fulltime or contract, even telecommute), but to no avail.

Looking for CF jobs in the bay area is quite disheartening to say the least. I did a search and found that there are more jobs in the LA area and the northeast.

I'm originally from NYC and the thought of moving back is just killing me. I'm not a fan of the city since I left many moons ago. But, at least I'll have a roof over my head (with family of course) and a chance at a job in the NYC area. I'd rather stick a hot fork in my eye than move back, but it's something I'm seriously considering.

If it comes down to it, at least I can put my stuff in storage out here in San Francisco which will give me the carrot I need to move back. Nah, I don't need a carrot. I love San Francisco and the whole bay area. I just wish there were more CF opportunities out here.