Terry Schmitt's Blog

I used to develop entirely on development servers. This was fine until I started working 100% remotely about 5 years ago. At first I still used Homesite+ via RDP and continued to write code on the dev servers. Then I started using Eclipse/CFeclipse for my IDE. I have no regrets making that switch, but I was then limited to using Windows mapped drives to connect via a slow VPN connection (No RDP for CF5). Not Good! Eclipse was really-really slow doing anything over this connection. Somewhere in that time-frame I also started using Subversion and if I installed Subclipse it would literally kill Eclipse while it refreshed a project. I now use various virtual machines running in VMWare Workstation. This is a terrific way to program locally on your PC, but still have the flexibility to configure just about anything that you want for a development setup. I typically use a much smaller database in the this dev scenario, as moving 10-20 GB of data over that same slow VPN connection is not any fun. Well, today it bit me.

I'm still fairly new in the Linux world and still find things that make me scratch my head. I use Kubuntu 8.04 on my PC and I'm working with Ubuntu 8.04 Server in VMWare Workstation. When cloning or copying a VMWare image, a new MAC address is created for the new image, which means that the first time that you boot up the clone, guess what? No networking! This is stupid simple with Windows, as it would simply detect the new network adapter and continue booting with network support working just fine. It's a different story with Linux, of course! I knew it was an adapter issue and Ubuntu simply wasn't recognizing the new adapter.

I searched on the term "coldfusion" for job openings at a company that creates products based on Coldfusion.

The response that I received was: "Your search contained invalid search terms, please adjust your search and try again. Thank you."

How's that for ya!?

I've been following all the OpenBD trash talk/gossip and I certainly have my own personal views of New Atlanta, but this is getting to be like a bad soap opera with a bunch of old ladies getting their knitting bags in a twist.

I have to enter my work hours in a cheesy ASP web app. It functions OK, but every single freak'n time that you save your timesheet it comes back with a JavaScript prompt telling you that your time was saved. Why on earth would you force your user to acknowledge, by clicking the prompt button, something so obvious?? Wouldn't it be quite adequate to simply have a "Record Saved" info block on the returned web page?