I need to learn not to get so excited about tentative plans until they are more firm. As it turns out, my involvement with my current project is so "crucial" (in my boss' terms), and the schedule is so tight, that we can't afford the time off to send me to CFUnited, even though the location is right, the cost would be justified, and the content would be beneficial. I suppose there's always next year - and with any luck it'll be somewhere more exotic.
In the meantime, I'm looking for a conference to attend this fall instead; and I'll have to try to get my fill of Scorpio information from the May 15th presentation.
I've been working on the follow-up to my application.cfm tweaks post that I promised, but I am somewhat deterred until I find an adequate solution for posting code. Perhaps I'll just use codeShare and then update it later when I find a more permanent solution.
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Scorpio
May 07 2007
As this is a free wordpress.com blog, I unfortunately don't have the ability to edit the CSS of my theme. I tried every single theme offered, even the pink ones, and none of them have adequate support for the <code> tag, in my opinion. I don't think I'm asking too much: a fixed width font, and horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping.
So I set to work on applying every free theme available and checking out how the code in my first post appeared. Needless to say, I was not happy. Most themes do use a fixed-width font, but none of them offer horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping. The closest I found was a theme called Freshy 1.0. I didn't dwell on it long (why bother? It doesn't have horizontal scrolling!) but its author did find a way to number the lines, which is an added bonus. Except that wrapped lines were given a new line number every time they wrap, which is inaccurate.
I've noticed that Dave Shuck, who I mentioned in my last post, likes to use codeShare, which has a really nice polish to it - but only archives your submissions for up to 8 weeks, as best I can tell. I hate running into dead links, let alone finding code examples that are no longer available. I can see myself writing a permanently archiving clone of codeShare if I can't get a theme solution in place.
I've offered to modify a few of the free themes to include better support for the tag, so we'll see where that goes. In the meantime, if anyone is aware of other creative solutions like codeShare that don't purge your submissions I'm quite interested.
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Meta
May 04 2007
Dave Shuck has a great writeup on the Scorpio (ColdFusion 8) presentation by Ben Forta to the Dallas Fort Worth CFUG - link via Steve of the Philly CFUG - detailing the new tags and attributes presented. Dave reports that Ben plans to show more and more features as his presentation tour goes on, which only makes me more excited to see what else will be unveiled at the Philly presentation on 5/15. Obviously I'm planning on attending, and I will be sure to take notes based on Dave's writeup, as well as report back on anything new unveiled to us.
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ColdFusion
May 01 2007
