A Slight Pause

Here’s a quick rundown of miscellaneous items coming in and out of my life currently.

I installed Vanilla Forums last night to start trying it out. A pretty intuitive forum software, it completely rethinks the way people approach online boards. Discussions are placed front and center and categories and placed in the background as a method refining your searches when you’re just looking through discussions. My only complaint? Skinning is definitely a weak point right now when it comes to the community. Everything looks the same. I guess you could say it all looks pretty vanilla. *sigh* We’ll see what I can do to change that.

The Red Sox are out of the playoffs. Thankfully though the Yankees are as well.

I’m extremely enjoying The Pale Pacific‘s Urgency release. Favorite tracks to date are “Sucker Punch”, “Tied To A Million Things”, and “Fortune Folds”. Other noteworthy releases are Iver‘s new EP Citadel Of Stars and Judd & Maggie‘s Subjects — a bro/sis country/folk duo. Some good stuff.

Today I finally recieved my Macromedia Studio 8 upgrade. Flashpaper 2? Flash 8? Dreamhater 8? Fireworks 8? Well at least 2 out of 4 ain’t bad.

I have a t-shirt idea. Now I need to get it printed. Any ideas?

Posted by Joshua Hynes

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 9:31am. It has been filed under Media, Music, News, Sports, Personal, Events, Lists, Technology, Writers, Joshua.

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1. What’s the t-shirt idea?
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   Bradley Spitzer wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 10:46am.

2. Cafepress.com does multicolor prints… it’s like a very fancy iron-on. I was pleased with the stuff I got done from them.

   If you hurry up and signup/upload your images you can get 20% anything from your own shop until the 12th. It’s a good way to get something you want done, and pretty quickly.

   ZNB wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 11:01am.

3. Also, why are you not happy with the upgrade? I have yet to do it, and I’m wondering what all the “?” you put after each program… You should do a big post on it sometime.

   ZNB wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 11:03am.

4. I’ve got Studio 8 here at work.  I don’t use anything but Dreamweaver 8 so I can comment on that, but isn’t worth the upgrade money that my company paid for it.  It IS really nice to be able to collapse sections of code, and the CSS integration is MUCHLY improved.  It also has a less-buggy FTP client built into it, which was one of my biggest pet peeves from the last (2) versions.  But those features are not worth the upgrade money me-thinks.

   I played with Flash 8 on a project I was working with last night and it still has problems with saving and opening files saved to a network share on Windows XP.  But seems to be a minimal amount of updates to it from a glance.

   Justin wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 11:14am.

5. Me hate affair with Dreammesser primarily resides in their ability to never leave me code alone.

   And for that reason alone I deam the program a waste of space. If I actually didn’t need to use it from time to time, I’d probably never use it. Give me a developer’s pad and I’ll be a happy man.

   Joshua Hynes wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 12:13pm.

6. i abandoned all “code” WYSIWYG long ago—because it generates excessive and sloppy code. i once used freehand, but am slowly matriculating to illustrator—and all in all; what’s it matter, they’ll be the same thing soon

   Paul wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:12pm.

7. I’m a Dreamweaver fan… Really haven’t had a lot of problems with the program. I love the template function, without it I would not be whole. I’m currently trying to fix screw-ups from someone who designed a site in Frontpage. The code was screaming but the Dreamweaver made everything better.

   ZNB wrote on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:56pm.

8. You can turn off the “auto correct” or “code rewrite\” functions within Dreamweaver (one of the first things I did with this new version), as well as the auto-page-wrap feature and get the functionality you are looking for.  I hate the auto-correct crap too…

   You can also now “group” and collapse large sections of PHP/ASP/ASP.net/C#/VB.net code with great ease, and that makes working with a long document a real breeze! (+5 power sword to Macrodobe for that feature!)

   I never use the “Split” or “Design” views, but I’m told that their support of CSS is greatly enhanced, and that there is a “zoom” feature that works really well and seems to be good for finding missing errant pixels in your design.  (which is always helpful)

   Justin wrote on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 9:55am.

9. Well I’ve installed it. We’ll see how it goes.

   Joshua Hynes wrote on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 10:39am.

10. About Baseball…

    Have you seen this link/article yet Hynes?

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=steroids&num=1

    Justin wrote on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 11:22am.

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