jason white

Let me add some context before I begin. Recently developing a site on a shoestring budget, I built the prototype proof of concept which was not really built from a solid specification more add-hoc per specification. Quickly the time came for the Directors to seek investment to fund future growth, i assume emails went to and throw between director and investor ideas a plenty; you can imagine one person saying “this” and another person saying “that”. To cut a long bit and make it shorter, the prototype site become the live site and more things than i can count on both hands and feet needed updating and changing.  like yesterday!

With no time to plan and without question i set about making the ideas real, some things simply wouldn’t work with other things and so had to be twisted and pushed. Many other things worked just fine. of course this way of working isn’t easy, without the planning it didn’t take long for us to realise we had introduced bugs, areas that worked fine before no longer functioned as they should. each change had a knock on effect.

I would love for this to be a story of morality, a tale of woe that by seeing the error of our ways we went forward into the light and for ever and day all was good. it’s not. I simply wanted to share a moment. I will not plan like the plan is everything if the client does not have the funds to support such antics. It may not be good for the client to go to the investor with only a plan, the plan alone will probably get them nowhere. For a plan on its own is just an idea and ideas are everywhere. Everyone has one, even me.

The client needs a prototype “a beta” if you will, with a prototype they have proof of concept and users too. They have what is needed now to acquire funding, maybe for a plan. Be it bank or brother someone will get excited and hold out a hand.

Bottom line given the choice if the client has limited funds go for the build, build like you have never built before, yes things will break and things will go wrong but they can be fixed and put right. Right now the client needs funding and you know what to do! when the funds are in you can plan because the client can afford you to, and plan well. its going to be fun and you will be proud.

Thanks

Following from my previous post, I contacted Carol at Navicat she told me:

“It should be released in minor upgrade but the time frame could not be provided at the meantime. We will contact you if any news.”

Excellent, I look forward to the update, soon.

i am reliably informed that the following will fix this issue.

Please fix this by
1. Closing Dreamweaver
2. Set your clock to the correct time if it isn’t already so
3. delete WinFileCache*.dat from
C:\Documents and Settings\[Your username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
4. Start Dreamweaver and use it as usually

Enjoy

J

I’m not sure how to start this post so im going to shoot from the hip and hope im true.

d-tnt is my creation, a dream and a vision, it had it’s day and that day was fun. we laughed we played and everyone gained a little somthing. I more than most. d-tnt was more than a site, it was a project to disapear into; you see im a geek and geeks love nothing more than to have an excuse to not get involved in “real life” and this was mine. I worked hard even managed to get into PC plus magazine and onto the cover disk. Kudos

More than this, it satisfied my karmic belief that what goes around comes around, and you get out of life what you put in. I believe i got a ton from the project and i hope that a ton got spread out.

I learnt that there are great people out there willing to help, advise and generally chat. they ask nothing in return. although i suspect they too feel the karmic force the way i do. I have never really thought about myself as a hippy but i sure sound like one when i read this back.

moving on… back to shooting from the hip….

d-tnt is no more, sadly and i mean sadly; I am closing the d-tnt.com website. Make no mistake, not because I have to but because there is a part of me that thinks its time to pull the plug, shut the life support down, put the poor thing out of its misery. better it goes now while it has a small amount of dignity than when it can no longer control its own bladder and mumbles its own name while dribbling scrambled egg down its own chin.

and so, here we are saying a fond farewell to a site that i think was good, honest and real. it did not fall to advertising banners and third party spammers. although i might add regretfully I did consider the lure of this tantalising revenue stream.

he (d-tnt.com) will be remembered in my heart and i’m sure many others too. I hope that the friends I have made and the contacts i have gained will stay in touch and visit here once in a while in loving memory of a past friend he (d-tnt.com) served us well.

Thank you to everyone, i wont say names for fear I will inadvertently forget one and offend. you know who you are and you know i know who you are. Thanks and Thank you again.

it’s been a blast.

J

Today is not a good day for dreamweaver to die.

I discovered this morning that due to the date/time change over the weekend dreamweaver crashes on opening certain files. primarily files that contain asp/vbscript code that includes server behaviors.

This is incredibly frustrating, my searches have revealed no official response from Adobe. I trust they are aware of the problem and are busting their balls to provide a fix.

If anyone is interested my debug console pointed to this location in the Assembly >>[00ADAB57 F6863604000004   test byte ptr [esi+$00000436],$04]. forgive me my assembly knowledge is almost non existant but this looks like a test(comparison) of some values is taking place here. one value appears at least to me to be a pointer to a memory location. i’m going to put my money on that location has become invalid for some reason and thus we have our AV.

so why does the date effect this Jason? good question, reader! the answer is simply that I have no idea. I’ll take a punt at a guess though and wager that dreamweaver CS3 performs some algorythm while executing an undefined function or procedure. In this algorythm the date is possibly used to provide a unique value to work against. Any thoughts on this?

Have fun.