Over the last few days I've been typing up some basic documentation to explain some of the new methodologies I've brought to the new team I'm working in. One of the things I kept typing and can't stop myself from doing it was Plugin which word (quite correctly I guess; this could be just a preference thing) showed as a miss spelling and wanted to change it to Plug-in. So rather then keep having to go back and correct the spelling I invoked the power of autocorrect, which sometimes can be, annoying but in this case very helpful. So now every time I typed Plugin it changes it by default to Plugin-in ;) That’s a few second saved I say :)
In addition to just this I also added
- cf » CF
- coldfusion » ColdFusion
- cold fusion » ColdFusion
Not that I really need to do that as I have that one mentally stored away :)
On another note AutoCorrect can be evil if you're a prankster and your manager doesn't really get AutoCorrect you could change random words as they are typing ;) Well not even managers I guess Collegues too ;) Fun Fun Fun
From a tweet from Ray Camden I found out that Google are Stoping the Development of Google Wave, I didn't play with it too much as I have other things on my plate; but when I did play with it it seemed it could be a very useful tool in a spread out development team where you could have real time convos that someone on a different time zone could pick up in their own time and churp in if required without it being out of context.
So Google don't feel it worked out as well as they though it would, but I can only feel that what ever comes out of this will improve their other product offerings or indeed shape some of their future products.
We saw this with Macromedia Central, the fundemental idea was right but the execution wasn't quite there, but from that Macromedia / Adobe learned and now we have Adobe AIR which has opended the Market up of Desktop Software to anyone who can code HTML/JavaScript.
It will be exciting to see what comes out of the flames of Google Wave.
Yesterday I had my first (of many I hope) RiaForge Project Approved for my txtLocalCFC this is a couple of CFC's for interacting with the UK SMS Service TxtLocal
The First CFC Deals with Checking Balance, Injecting Contacts to Groups and of course Sending SMS Messages
The Second CFC Deals with the End Points, which deal with the call made on the Receipt of an SMS Being, sent, and also the call made when a SMS is Received by TXT Local
This was written as a POC for a Client in CF8 but I will port over to pure CF9 Script CFC's in due course.
Today I had to revert a working copy, which reverted all the files modified and also the Properties changed.
But it didn't remove anything which wasn't versioned yet, so the top level showed everything up to date, but infact there where unversioned files, so you can enable an option in the TortoiseSVN Settings so that the top folders show an icon to indicate there are changes still, but then if you want to delete these unversioned files, you have to press SHIFT and then right click the folder then you get an option to delete unversioned files.
Again this is another prompt to remind me, but also helpful to others out there.
