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Lucky Me, Got iPhone

Posted At : October 28, 2008 1:15 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: Personal

Wife gave me iPhone last night.

Typing this on tiny keyboard.

Yay!

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OT: I Drink Your Milkshake

Posted At : September 15, 2008 1:17 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: Funny,Personal

First off, I apologize for the OT post. I really do try to limit these, and hopefully putting OT in the title of my post means that most uninterested people won't even be bothered by it.

Anyway, here's the story. I don't get much of a chance to watch movies, what with being a part-time stay at home father to two boys under the age of 4, and a part-time CF developer trying to keep on top of things and learn OO design and development. I've recently started a new exercise regimen that has me riding a stationary bike in my basement for an hour every other day, and while I ride the bike I usually get a chance to watch half of a movie. That is why I was finally able to view There Will be Blood the other night.

Loved it, which is usually the case for me with P. T. Anderson movies.

By some strange coincidence I was up late last Saturday night, reading blog posts and not really watching what was on the TV, when a skit came on Saturday Night Live that caught my eye. Now I'm old enough to remember when SNL was really, really funny, and also when it became really, really not funny, at which point I pretty much stopped watching. So I really have no idea whether the current cast of SNL does a good job or not, but I had assumed the latter. So I was amazed as I watched this skit, which I found to be one of the funniest things I've seen in years. It was a spoof of There Will Be Blood, with a touch of No Country for Old Men, and even Juno thrown in. I was laughing out loud. I laughed so much that I had to see it again, so I googled it and found a link to it.

So, if you've seen There Will Be Blood, and enjoyed it, and haven't seen the related SNL sketch, see below. I'm pretty sure you'll be entertained.

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Subversion Makes a Fool out of Me

Posted At : August 20, 2008 7:40 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: ColdFusion,Subversion,Personal

I've had this ongoing problem with Subversion with one of my ColdFusion projects. The set up with the client is far from ideal - here's how it works:

I have a Subversion repository for all of the code and I use it for all of my work. When I'm ready to upload changes I export from Subversion and upload either the whole thing or just the changes if there are only a few. Once the work is uploaded to the server the client can download view templates, make changes to them and upload the changes. This allows them to make changes to the appearance of the site without having to bother/pay me. We've been doing this for a few years so the client knows what they're doing and doesn't usually create problems with any existing ColdFusion code in the templates.

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I've been Goog'd

Posted At : July 15, 2008 8:19 PM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: Personal

Just a quick thanks to Geoff Bowers. My blog is now aggregated by fullasagoog.

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My New BlogCFC Skin

Posted At : June 18, 2008 8:47 AM | Posted By : Bob Silverberg
Related Categories: ColdFusion,BlogCFC,Personal

Now that I've started trying to blog more regularly, and now that some people are actually viewing my blog, I figured it was time to ditch the lovely BlogCFC vanilla skin and make things a bit prettier around here.

I was a bit intimidated at first, being very much a back-end developer and not having done much work with css in quite awhile. With a little moral support from Paul Marcotte, I found a css template that I liked at Styleshout.com, made a couple of changes to it, including getting rid of the wood in the background graphic (thanks Paul), and started making changes to BlogCFC templates.

A few hours later my blog was reborn. It was actually pretty easy to do, and I'm quite happy with the results.

I also replaced the stock photo that comes with the template with a slice from a photo that I took during a hike in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in southern Chile in 2004. You can see the full photo here. I plan to rotate this image with others that I've taken on my travels.

I also took this opportunity to play with Slideshows in BlogCFC, setting one up which contains a few more photos from this trip. If you enjoy nice scenery and/or are interested in Chile, check it out via the link in the sidebar.

UPDATE:

My banner image now rotates hourly, so the link above may not actually point to a full version of the banner pic. It's still a nice photo, though.

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