The Blog of Lucien Stals

I went to the swap meet this morning at Hawthorn Town Hall to picked up a few things.

#1 on the shopping list was anything to make my desktop machine quieter.

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Does anyone know anything about the Fusebox methodology / framework for coding Coldfusion?

I need to learn it for the new job. The book they gave me to read isn’t making much sense (overly verbose and convoluted explanations that confuse rather than clarify).

So if anyone knows some good resources, can you post a link or two here?

(Give it a week or two and I’ll be writing the new wiki page on it, no doubt )

Second day on the job.

IT came through with my accounts
I now have a new email address (lucien.stals at rch dot org dot au) which is working as of today. I got admin rights on my own PC and was able to dump a single user account which had three virtual machines in it taking up ~60% of the HD! Yesterday, the HD was 98% full. I’m amazed the machine ran as well as it did. It feels much better now

BTW, IT also came through with my account at Swin. After starting sessional teaching (in Internet Technologies and Java Programming) last week, ITS decided, in it’s infinite wisdom, to terminate my account on Friday. I realise I was leaving full time employment at Swin, so I had called ahead to ITS and carefully explained that I was still sessional and would still need my accounts. They said it was fine and that I just had to state that on my clearance form and it would all be good. I had even taken the precaution of filling in a new application for network accounts, just in case.

But they still managed to lose the application form, and not read the clearance form and switch everything off. After a flurry of emails today between the Faculty and ITS, my accounts were re-enabled.

So it was two wins for IT today, once at each work place

Back at RCH…

My new manager must be bi-polar. Or just manic. Possibly just manic. He said his record was 15 coffees in one day. Did I mention manic?

By lunch time, he’d introduced me to the workflow they use, run me through Fusebox (how come I’ve never heard of this before? Oh yeah! ‘Cause I’ve never done Cold Fusion), told me about a dozen passwords I need to know, shown me the JS library they use for client side validation, the JS library they use for some neat AJAX bits…. um, there was some other stuff too, but my head was spinning at that point.

I spent most of the afternoon reading the Fusebox book he gave me. It doesn’t seem so bad. ROR is all about programming by convention and this seems much the same.

First day on the new job.

I’m now a web developer for the Royal Childrens’ Hospital

First task on the first day is recieving training in the CMS. Argh! How clumbsy it is. How long will it be before I miss Swinburnes static HTML?

The plus side is that my work machine had dual monitors without me having to ask for it

I was just asked to add a check box to a web site.

The check box indicates a “yes” or “no” answer. A tick means “yes”.

I was asked to make the check box mandatory.

Am I the only one to see a problem with this?

(Sometimes I want to cry. But I’ve only got 3 sleeps till I’m out of here )

One of the reasons for wanting a new phone with a camera in it was so that I could take pictures of the idiot driving that I witness almost ever day on the corner of Union Rd and Canterbury Rd.

Here’s yesterdays contender..

Yes, that’s a van *parked* across the pedestrian crossing. Note the lack of motion blur. This guy was stationary.

Work *gave* me a new MacBook. I’m over the moon…

:)