My old Wordpress blog - page 6 Oh the memories

I’ve just read this great little interview with Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). It doesn’t give much insight into his music and new album etc. but it’s another great slice of artist’s views on the music industry and the record labels continued resistance, and stupidity, to the changes in the way in which we consume music.

I’ve been very quiet recently due to two things, firstly I had been working pretty much ever spare hour my new project (more details to come soon) and then 3 almost weeks ago I got the keys to my first house. It’s needed quite a bit of work (OK it didn’t need it, but it really was the best time to do it) so I’ve spent pretty much every spare hour in the house - I hadn’t been near a computer for the first 8 days of getting the keys for my house.

Every time I start a new project I’m always trying to do things better than I did on the last project, it’s the way for all developers.

I’m a big fan of trying to use a common vocabulary to describe things, especially when working with different departments, companies etc. - the more people you have involved the more important I believe that becomes.

I’ve come across this problem before, where I want to hide the overflow of an element, this works fine in all browsers except IE - however it’s never been a problem in anything that I’ve progressed far enough with to worry about fixing it for IE.

I’m currently in the very early stages of a new personal project that we’re really excited about. It came out of an idea I had a couple of days ago when I got frustrated with a situation I was faced with in work.

I had the following date string from a data dump file 11-APR-07, without looking at the Coldfusion documentation I pass the string to lsParseDateTime() and dump the output to see if it parses the string correctly, which results in {ts '2007-04-11 00:00:00'}.

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time now is to create a couple of back end implementations for my JavaScript Image Cropper UI (I really need to come up with a snazzy name for that) - obviously that hasn’t happened.

I and a small team have been writing a small application in PHP using CakePHP, which we all have an ongoing love-hate relationship with.

I was called over to Stu’s desk earlier today when he asked me “Dude, have you heard of Ralio?” (which is a Java Coldfusion - CFML - interpreter or engine).