Apple is beginning to worry me... I love the iPhone - it has a great combination of tools for checking email and web surfing that is surprisingly usable in a mobile package.

So version 2.0.2 was supposed to address "undisclosed bugs" - some of which were supposedly the bad 3G bugs.

I installed 2.0.2 on my phone, and immediately my reaction was positive (the "yeah!" part of the topic above) because everything was snappy and much more responsive than 2.0.1 -- and a world of difference over 2.0.

About as quickly as my excitement came, it turned south as I noticed a great number of things that no longer worked -- and they are critical issues too.

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The last couple hours have been spent migrating data from my aging "BlogCFM" installation to my all new shiny "BlogCFC" setup. Hopefully everything translated well, and everybody will enjoy the more modern features of this setup including proper RSS feeds and del.icio.us integration etc.

I've got some new Flex posts about ready, so stay tuned, and feel free to comment if you like the new site!

For those interested, I found this nifty utility for exporting/importing data for BlogCFC here, and I wrote my own custom export for BlogCFM so that it exported in the format this utility expected. It went relatively painlessly... http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/30/BlogCFC-ExportImport-Code

Get ready for acronym overload.

A while back, I write a blog entry about pfSense, and mentioned that it was a worthwhile project.  Now I want to mention Vyatta, which is another open source router project.  While pfSense is based on BSD and has a fancy web interface, Vyatta is based on Linux, and only has CLI (command line interface).

As a general rule the CLI is not really a huge problem for me, especially since Vyatta has a PDF reference manual outlining the different commands.

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No, this isn't an "original" rant...  just spreading the word on an already available, and excellent eye-opening writeup of why CF doesn't fit the "mold" of other "programming languages" and why it isn't a simple process to say "this is free, why isn't CF free?"

Anyway, stop reading my blog, and read this instead:

http://www.cfinsider.com/index.cfm/2007/11/10/Things-ColdFusion-is-not-and-Why-ColdFusion-isnt-free

Thanks to CF Insider!

I find this whole concept perplexing!?!?!?  Unfortunately it seems the growing norm that technology professionals are pushed to the limit so often that when they start to bend under pressure, the first thing to go is their "ability to document."

It would seem perfectly respectable if you were doing an integration job with a new firm that doesn't know your technology, you should give them documentation on how to use it right ?  Why is it such a big deal to get documentation like this ???  It seems that the industry is growing to a point where "well, here is something to get you started, you figure out the rest and call me when you get stuck" is the growing norm.

Shame on us for letting it get this bad.  I've done it to, so I don't excuse myself.  But i've also learned from my mistakes too...  Now I document most of what I do, for the sole reason that I work on so many projects that when I need to pick up an old project, I better have some notes on how it works or else I won't remember.

So there is the rant for July.  I am up for suggestion on how technology professionals can make it easier to document our work in languages other intelligent life forms can understand.