David J.

David: John, I don't know if you remember working with me, but if you do, I have a quick question for you.

John: yes i do remember you. what's up?

David: Well, John, you probably remember me being a little crazy, and making work fun

John: ha ha yes

David: I've been watching a lot of movies lately, and I notice that superheroes seem to have a very specific thing in common. Superheroes all seem to have a mortal enemy.

John: ok

David: I've been thinking a lot lately that I would like to have someone that if I ever saw them again, we could pretend to be mortal enemies. Like if we were at the movies and you were coming out while I was going in...

John: ha ha

David: we would know that we weren't but we could pretend to be like, "oh my gosh, my mortal enemy is here." and you could yell, "Keep away from me, Johnson!"

John: sure

David: cool. I really enjoyed working with you and we had some fun with dot-net so you know I would just be joking around

John: i don't currently have any other mortal enemy's

David: I've moved upstate, so the chances of us crossing paths may be slim. If we are ever going to be superheroes, we have to have at least one.

John: well that will make it that more interesting

David: So, I will sign a letter x to show that I have accepted you as my mortal enemy. If you do the same, then we are on our way to superheroship.

David: x

John: can we be the ones like professor x and magneto

David: absolutely.

John: where they just disagree on a major point ... but still play chess together?

David: ooh, i like that. we'll have to see how our mortal enemy relationship evolves, but that could be cool.

John: ok

David: sign with an x if you're in

John: x

David: it's on.

John: ha ha. that is supposed to be a maniacal laugh

David: you call that a maniacal laugh? (just practicing). off to lunch, i'd better not see you

John: oh you wont ... see me ... soon

David: when you least expect it, expect it <---- possible tag line, might be taken.

posted on 2012-01-25 11:56:53

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This is another of my songs. I call it After The Gold Rush. I wrote it because I didn't think that only Neil Young could have a cool song called After The Gold Rush.

It's about someone that's been watching the good things get away from him.

Lyrics

Here I go again, getting there late

But the party had to start, no one could wait.

I'm taking my shoes off at the door, you're putting yours on.

Guess I'm glad that I got here before you were gone.

Feels like my wagon arrives after the gold rush

When all the nuggets have been found.

When everybody has moved on

And all of the gold is gone.

 

The sun's already risen and you're getting married today.

You cannot know how I feel, you're too swept away.

Pocket full of poseys, I guess I should move on.

You're standing before God, yet you're already gone.

Feels like my wagon arrives after the gold rush

when all the nuggets have been found.

When everybody has moved on...

And all of the gold is gone.

posted on 2012-01-24 16:28:25

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This is my song. I call it Dizzy. I wrote it for my wife. She said she was tired of hearing sad songs. I wrote it to share the happy feeling of being in love with her.

High school dances, the way smiles jump off of faces and eyes light up. It's all the joy of being in love.

Lyrics

The poets write about how they want it.
The poets write about how they lost it.
Singers sing about how they got it
But oh... I think I just found it!

You see I love the way that her hair smells
and her smile just jumps off her face.
and when she shines her eyes my way
my heart just flutters all over the place!

This must be what it's like to be dizzy
from spinning around and round and round and round in love!

I have a picture of her dancing
in a circle with all of her friends.
Sometimes right before I fall asleep
I just stare at it and grin!

This must be what it's like to be dizzy
from spinning around and round and round and round in love!

And, oh, that first kiss...
I'm floating in her eyes.
and, oh, a memory like this
could last a thousand lives.

This must be what it's like to be dizzy
from spinning around and round and round and round in love!

posted on 2012-01-21 17:20:38

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Those who know me know that I am in my forties. I was working with a wonderful 20-something designer on a web page where she had done the graphics and some css and I was functioning it all together.

My jaw dropped in amazement when this mac-loving designer firmly planted her finger on my screen as she was explaining a needed update. I couldn't even continue the conversation because I was so dumbfounded by what I thought was a totally un-artist type move.

After this happened a few more times, I couldn't stop myself. I told her, with a smile on my face,that I could not believe that she was touching a monitor. Not my monitor, but a monitor.

She understood, she nodded and smiled.

I told her that I worked with a mac addict that had a big sign reading 'HOVER' over the top of his monitor and that he instilled in me the understanding that you don't touch a monitor.

She smiled and said, "I think it's a generation gap."

I've often been the older dude in the office when it comes to website work but this one came out of left field.

"Really," I said, "A generation gap?"

"Yes," she continued, "My generation touches our screens. We touch our phones, we touch our iPads and our tablets, and we touch our monitors."

I realized she was right. I have to stop living in the past.

Tomorrow, I'm touching my monitor.

It'll keep me young.

posted on 2012-01-19 22:51:14

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I have been an Eclipse user for almost 5 years. Most of the time when I am using Eclipse, I am using CFEclipse.

CFEclipse is an add-on to Eclipse that turns Eclipse into a ColdFusion Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is a wonderful way to code ColdFusion pages.

I also use PHPEclipse to code PHP pages. I haven't used that as much as I have used CFEclipse.

When Coldfusion 9 was released, Adobe also released a paid version of a product called CFBuilder. CFBuilder was built using Eclipse and is a Coldfusion IDE.

I'm sure that users of CFBuilder will attest to it being a wonderful product. However, there is something about free that keeps me using CFEclipse.

But it isn't just that CFEclipse is free. CFEclipse is good. Very good. It is the kind of development environment that truly assists a developer without getting in the way. It lets the developer be in charge of development.

Recently, I was unable to save a file over Remote System Explorer (RSE) when in CFEclipse. I searched for an answer but did not find that I was doing anything wrong.

Then I did a 'Check For Updates' in Eclipse. Sure enough, there was already an update that included an RSE SSH fix. I did the update and everything worked again.

It was then that I decided to write this post. I want to take the time to say Thank You to the developers of CFEclipse.

Developers of CFEclipse, you have done and are doing a great thing for the Coldfusion community by continuing to work on CFEclipse. You make every day I work a better day and I want you to know how much I appreciate all your efforts.

Thank you, CFEclipse!

posted on 2012-01-17 15:13:06

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