The Lighter Side of Code

I was listening to one of my new favorite podcasts at FreelanceSwitch.com and I ran across this neat little site.  Behold Twistori.  I am sure that some of you have seen this site before, but I found it a good waste of time.  I couldn’t believe some of the stuff people were saying on Twitter.  Check it out.  Oh, and for those freelancers out there, you should definitely go through FreelanceSwitch.com.  They have a ton of information on the site and it’s good info, not the fluff you see on other sites.

I am glad that I don’t work in anoffice setting, because I would’ve just gotten some crazy eyes.  I haven’t been to sys-con in a while now, and I remember one of the reasons I stopped going.  What is up with the Windows Server ad in the top right corner that starts running on load?  It runs on EVERY page!  At least autoplay based on first view or something.  I am listening to  some music and bam here comes the lame ad with the audio ramped up.  Am I the only person annoyed by this?

I was going to try and keep quiet about this guy, but I think that Republican strategist Brad Blakeman is a new hero of mine.  He is always on this MSNBC show called Verdict and he is always Repub on steroids.  I love this guy, and I guess so do others and that is why he is allowed on the show all the time.  He always stays on message and always attacks anything even remotely liberal.  Now, I am more liberal than conservative, but Blakeman’s dedication to the republican message is too awesome to not give the guy the pat on the back.  Some of the topics that he defends are so stupid I feel dumb listening to him, but he still stays on message.  I want him to rep me!  I could run around doing crazy stuff and still have someone willing to back me up.  Now that’s awesome.

I just had to gripe about this, I am sitting here watching some poker (I know…lame) and this Peticure ad comes on and is so loud it wakes up my baby and my dogs start barking.  I think Head-On did the same thing, but I wonder how many people don’t buy just because of that.  I know I do, I will never buy Peticure or Head-On just because of the annoying commercials.  Man, I am in a crabby mood today.

I just stumbled on this site, and it’s really impressive.  It might have to do with the fact that Daniella Sarahyba is really hot, or the interactivity of the site.  Who knows.  Try it out!  Direct Daniella

Well, I was going through the 600 RSS articles today and I came across a post by Tony Mobily titled: “Does anyone still develop Windows applications? Or, the programming world has gone online” Not only is the title bad grammar, it was a hate post on everything but AJAX.  There are plenty of companies out in the world developing Windows applications and to say that Java and Flash are on the downturn is just plain idiotic.  I would be open to debate the market share if there was an objective argument, but this dude is clearly not into any platform that you have to pay to develop in.  Yea, yea, I know that you don’t have to pay to work with Flex, but it’s so much easier to just grab the FlexBuilder IDE.  Anyway,  Tony seemed to have an agenda against all of the major engines out there in favor of AJAX.  Dont get me wrong I love AJAX like the next guy, but I am also a big proponent of Flex.  I couldn’t figure out if this guy was mistaking the visual effects that are packaged into most frameworks and actual AJAX.  At any rate, it was a similar post to all the many “ColdFusion is dead” and “PHP is greater than all!” posts on the web and that’s just lame.

In case anyone noticed, if you have an earlier install of Aptana and you can’t launch the search dialog you might want to go and grab the new beta release.  It clears up that and a few other issues in Aptana.  Here is where the update is located: http://beta.aptana.com/php/studio/3.2.  Hope this helps some folks out there.

I just installed the latest version of Eclipse (Ganymede) and I like the new changes to the plugin update feature.  Well, I went and grabbed the RDS plugin from Adobe and loaded those up along with CFEclipse and everything was working great.  Then I decided to connect to a server and noticed something odd.  I was able to connect fine, but I was not able to expand any of the folders.  In order to navigate you have to click on the directory and click the “Jump into” button.  Has anyone else experienced this, and if so is there a fix for it?

Eclipse hangs when connecting to RDS

This is just…wow!

In a my post about stopping spam I forgot to mention that Jacob Munson talked about using Akismet as a service to check your spam mail.  Well, I decided to try it out on this blog and it works really well.  Apparently there is a spammer using the RIPE Network Coordination Centre from IP address 193.53.87.81 in Amsterdam.  He/She really wants to hit my post on Google and Firefox seeing that their bot has tried to post spam 40 times.  As far as I can tell, this spammer has been active for a while.  At any rate, try Akismet if you haven’t already.