Another year of walking on water as a telecommuting freelancer.
Tevolutions - actually learning jquery (sorry prototype) not just using plugins, and firebug becoming the first resort for html interfaces. Topstyle is becoming a closer pal too as I now get more with the progressive enhancement movement due client requests for compatibility with cramped mobile screens.
How did it happen that web programmers became css-heads again - we had to do all that stuff back when designers got panic attacks when you pointed them at a html editor. Now they are competitively paid 'frontend developers' gaily tossing in jquery widgets - web programmers still have to spend their lives in firebug and webdeveloper making this richness play nice?
The more things change ...
Last year Homesite gave way to Dreamweaver as my main cf coding tool - next year guess it will have to be cfbuilder. Never really valued Eclipse except for Java - got used to Flexbuilder but its resource hogging and general slowness never impressed - suppose I will also try and migrate to Flashbuilder in 2011 (sigh). Two years (or more) behind everyone else but I don't have space to play anymore.
Pure tech discoveries - LogMeIn which is an easy browser-based way of remote control of home computers without configuring servers or awful MS remoting. Unfortunately they only offer remote desktop like control on their free client. For an annual fee you can get the more useful - 'use your home machines as fileservers' service. Not had the extended work outings to justify the $80 annual fee this year.
The onesizefitsalls frameworks (in cf - coldbox) seems to be giving way to lightweight varieties (in cf fw1 and lightfront ) - had a play with wrapping a couple of plugins. TGod as with all the extra frontend hacking I don't have the bandwidth with fighting java-envious infrastructure.
On a similar bandwidth theme - moving off my dependency on Mura for cms and re-developing a splash based barebones one. Just too much overhead again.
Well thats a wandering post - moral credit at least whether anyone reads it or not ;)
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