I like coffee… I do… I love the strong, the weak, the acidic, and the smooth. I love it all. I love it with syrups, raw sugar, milk/cream/half and half. I think all coffee has its merits. I am not a coffee snob and I enjoy tasting new and wild brands from around the world… but can drink folgers if I need to.
I also like Starbucks. Yes I do. I like the fact that I can get it 100 different ways or I can get a cup of joe if I want. I prefer a good americano with white mocha but still like a frap every once in a while.
The other thing is that they are EVERYWHERE here in Nashville/Franklin. I can count at least 5 within a 4 mile radius and I can’t think of any indie coffee shops except for around downtown nashville. If you want something other then gas station coffee you are going to have to go to Starbucks.
So back to my point. Starbucks has been trying to recapture they indie image and get back to what it is people liked about them in the first place… good strong coffee… They have recently introduced Pike Place roast and implemented a few things such as new cups with their old logo and changing out the brewed coffee every 30 minutes.
The problem is that they face a damned if you do, damned if you don’t. People like to complain about them regardless of what they do because they ARE the corporation and the 800 lbs gorilla. It is now COOL to hate Starbucks and to say that their coffee is “burnt” or “over-roasted” when I am sure half of those people couldn’t even tell the difference between a cup of Chock-Full-Of-Nuts and a cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain.
My point is that it seems that ColdFusion suffers from the same issue. It is cool to not like ColdFusion. It seems that to have street-cred in the dev world you have to say you are a RoR programmer or that PHP/Python/Blah Blah is your language. If the mention of ColdFusion comes up it is usually a “CF Sux” type discussion.
I mean even the RailsEnvy guys, when doing the XXXXX vs Rails videos, could only come up with the fact that MySpace was running on ColdFusion and it would crash all the time, as the thing against it… Could they not come up with something else? yet we are still the red-headed step-child.
I really have no point other then the observation and I don’t really know what to do about it. The fact is that Adobe will continue to develop ColdFusion and as long as I have jobs I will continue to program in it. Yes I am probably going to go learn Ruby or PHP to help expand my skill set but really is just a curiosity of what they are all about. Heck I could be writing a post in a few months called “I have seen the light”… but I doubt it :-)
I work on an application that only works in IE 6+ so moving to the mac has required me to find a way to test the application. I have found that about 90% of it works in Safari (but not FF) but the remaining 10% is critical to access at some points for testing.
Because of this I have been using Parallels running Windows 2k3. Basically the only thing I run on it is IE7 and I needed it to be able to access the Apache instance running on Leopard. Since Apache is running on 127.0.0.1, and Parallels was using shared networking, 127.0.0.1 and the actual IP address would never reach Apache.
After some looking around it appears that Parallels uses a NAT service that creates a local IP address for both the host OS (Leopard) and the guest OS (Win2k3). because of this I can use that IP address to access both machines back and forth. Here is how..
- Find the IP address that Parallels assigns the host OS. This can be done by doing Terminal > ifconfig. Find the IP address for en3 (if you have more then one network adapter this could be en4 etc). Copy that.
- 2. In the guest OS (windows) create a host entry by editing C:\{windows root}\system\drivers\etc\hosts
hostcomputer 10.211.55.2[the address you copied]
(I actually just changed the localhost entry to make things easier, you might not want to do that though)
That’s it. Put in http://hostcomputer in IE and it should pull up your Apache instance on Leopard.
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I'm J.J. Merrick, a Web developer from Nashville, TN. This is a blog, intended to be my venting station about all things technology. I will talk about the Internet, Web Development, ColdFusion, Flex, Ajax, etc.
