March 2, 2006
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Things
Quick update.
The band (not DaisyCutter, the new project) finally got together and practiced after missing almost a month. I was pretty rough at first, but after a couple fingers of Irish Whiskey, it went surprisingly well.
For those who didn’t know yet, as of this week, I’m working again. Its been almost three years since I had a normal job, and this whole concept of getting up and outside every day (and correspondingly, having to wear clothing every day) is still a bit alien. Web stuff again, of course. Frankly, I’m just not qualified to do anything else that pays over minimum wage.
On a related note, I’m trying to figure out what text editor I want to use as a default. For years, on my home system, I’ve used Textpad since I had a license for it, but I may as well take the opportunity to get something a bit fancier. So far I’ve looked at:
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 ($199)
Leaning against this one as its a bit expensive and what you get for that expense is mainly WYSIWYG features that I don’t really use.
Macromedia Homesite 5.5 ($99)
Currently leaning towards this one as I’ll be working with a number of other Macromedia technologies and there may be some benefits to using more integrated software.
UltraEdit + UltraCompare ($59.95)
Two standalone programs that integrate somewhat. UltraCompare looks like a pretty nice diff tool. UltraEdit is a pretty baseline code editor that doesn’t look too bad.
UEStudio + UltraCompare ($119.95)
Currently leaning towards this one as it has a lot of nice features (This and homesite have code collapsing. This also has CVS integration, better integration for UltraCompare, and a few other fairly nice features.)
EditPlus ($30)
*meh* Doesn’t really look any better than Textpad and I could buy UltraEdit for the same price.Anyone have any thoughts or feelings on this? I’d imagine most of the work will be HTML, CSS, javascript, actionscript, and cold fusion.
Finally, Tika4 has recently posted a bit about the search for a cure for Juvenile Diabetes and a foundation (involving Lee Iaccoca, whose wife died of diabetes in 1984). They apparently have some pretty promising leads and are trying to get into testing without involvement of the major pharmaceuticals. If you’re looking for someone to donate to, this may be a good choice.
If for no other reason then to help a auto mogul redeem himself, eh?
Something to remember about Juvenile Diabetes.
People who get lung cancer or emphysema from smoking often are denied sympathy because they made choices that lead to their illness. Similarly, people who get type 2 diabetes are often denied sympathy because their lifestyle may have led to or exacerbated their disease (sadly, this may include my cat, but it really isn’t his fault).
People who have Juvenile (type 1) diabetes could not have avoided it. There’s nothing they did to “deserve” the illness. However, since many people are aware of the lifestyle factors which can lead to type 2 diabetes and are unaware of the distinction between the types, the people with type 1 diabetes are unfairly denied sympathy.
It isn’t hard to imagine that this might lead to less funding looking for a cure. It isn’t hard to see that this isn’t really fair. So, consider Joining Lee Now.
Comments (4)
I have been doing web coding for 5 years professionaly for my company now and have used HomeSite for ALL the asp coding (unless I was on a remote box and then did quick changes in notepad). I have turned down the idea to change several times because the new product couldn’t do what I wanted it to do.
I have never used or even trial used the others except DreamWeaver. To me, Dream Weaver is what the marketing dept uses to make pretty sites that have no back end or functionality other than maybe submitting a form to be mailed. Homesite is for programmers.
As for diabetes and Type 1, my company is big in support for juvenile diabetes. They do a big event at the company in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Walk at the MoA and this year we had the largest team to participate.
We had 4 guys get their hair cut down to stubble because we had over 20 people donate more than $100 as individuals and our CIO matched that amount out of pocket. My dept raised over $7K just by itself. I am proud of what they do for it. And yes, one of the VP’s is personally affected from what I understand (their child has Type 1). I have type 2 and have for almost 8 years now.
Tika4 seems to have me blocked from posting on her site. Can you please pass on a message to her.
Are the pewter pins you have from the Lee? Can I get them thru the foundation?
I posted on rphaedrus about my companies support for JDRF. I would like to pass the info on to the VP about Join Lee if possible.
John
I have still not heard from Tika4. I can only assume that somehow I have offended her without realizing it. I honestly don’t know how or what I did.
I appreciate you forwarding on my comments to her.
I found the site so will look into it.
I wanted to say a huge “thank you” for posting the information on your site, didn’t really expect anyone to pay any attention to my ramblings, let alone do this for me, so again, “thank you”!
Ironwolf – No, you’ve haven’t offended me and I can’t figure out why you can’t post on my site, but I did email the Xanga guys about it. I will send you an email tonight, I had a very busy weekend or would have gotten to this sooner.
Melissa