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Coming Up For Air
I feel like I just barely have my head above the water, and I am
gasping for air. Ever since I got back from cfunited I have been
bombarded by projects. I have not made time for much outside of
work, (although I took some time for my wife’s birthday present) and it seems that so much has happened.
First of note was the Coldfusion 10th Birthday Party. I hosted a
party at my office and we had a great turn out. I orinally had
planned to watch the feed live, but being on the west coast that was
middle of the afternoon for us and not many people could make it.
So we got together that night and watched the recorded breeze.
Thanks to the wonderful package I got from Ed and some of the stuff i
brought back from cfunited, everyone went home with some swag. We
gave out copies of CFDJ, those great tag posters, candies and sample
cd’s. In addition to the gear everybody got most people got other
prizes as well.
Just a week later we had our monthly CFUG meeting. Kam and George
from Isite Design here in Portland, presented on a CF application
security framework they have been working on. The premise of the
framework was that they often have to work around existing systems, and
then add on more security to protect features they have added. It
seems quite well thought out and very featureful. I will post
more on that soon, as they announced the intention of making the code
available for public review. Also after they work out the license
they are entertaining the idea of turning the project open source.
As for things that have been happening in my world, I will post a
summary. I came upon the need to do some development using MS sql
server. As you can guess on my powerbook that is a bit of an
undertaking. I picked up Virtual PC and did an install.
From what i had heard it was pretty easy to get these all
connected. In truth I had good successes right out of the
gate. I got the vpc isntalled with winxp and sql server, I could
surf the net and connect to the world, but i found very quickly there
was a problem. Although I could connect the outside world, there
was nothing i could do to connect to my host mac. I couldnt ping it nor
could I access any of the services on it. I was using the shared
networking and after some research I found that I needed to be using
"virtual switch" in order to allow those to connect. So i made
the switch, and restarted my vpc. But this was not the solution I
was looking for as it also didnt work. The current state of
affairs does not allow the virtual pc to work over the airport. I
NEVER have my computer plugged into ethernet. I dont work in any
kind of normal office with it. This is a problem in that without
a cord plugged into the jack, my powerbook wont enable the ethernet
port and hence the vpc cannot communicate via it. My solution for
this was to build a loopback ethernet jack. Basically I just took
a couple inches of cat5 stripped the outside off and kept the 8 little
wires inside. Grabbed an end piece, and fed the wires back into
its self as is diagramed on this site.
I havnt gotten it to share my airport connection which I thought I
would, but i can have the 2 computers talk to each other, and that is
happy times for me!
The last bit i will talk about is that I am very excited to say I got a
new toy. Just yesterday I finally triumphed over my hesitation to
renew with verizon wireless. Not only did I renew, but i also
purchased a new Treo 650. It is well known that verizon hobbles
the bluetooth in its phones so that it can upsell its "get it now"
product. However I have been playing with it for that last 26
hours and I am very happy with my desicion. i can now check my
email and surf the net on my phone. I can sink my phone via the
cable and bluetooth, as well as use the phone as a modem for my
powerbook on verizons national access network. I will likely post
more about the phone, using it with a mac, and my trials with verizon
in the future so I will leave this post here.
I hope that soon, I will have some free time to invest in the community
projects that i am committed to, but for now I am very thankful for
this moment to breath the fresh air.
Ok, back to coding.
26 Jul 2005 Simeon 4 comments
