TurtleFusion

Well I made it home from training with a much better understanding of Flex and a new enthusiasm for getting more familar with the material I had to whiz through in the past three days.  Of course coming home also meant coming back to issues that I'm dealing with at work as far as the new development of our current CF project is going.  With a six month timeline ahead including an upgrade to CF7, intergration of a basic Flex interface for forms and report generation and some fairly major development as far as the actual code development goes - I have a lot to look foward to (or blind myself from) depending on how you look at it.  As if this isn't enough to get the stress level up I also have some conflicting views on how to get things done and what issues are important with my collegue who is also working the project.  To cap it off I'm way behind on a project I'm doing for a local organization since I've been bringing so much work home and I should have another project in the works soon as soon as the client can get the information to their old domain server so I can access their files.

So with all of that in front of me I decided it would be a good time to try to install Eclipse and get it up and running with CFEclipse and Flex integration - although I've just installed Flexbuilder - I want to be able to have the choice of Open Source if I wish.  Needless to say it wasn't easy - well for me anyway - as I had terrible trouble getting Eclipse to be updated to the point of being able to take the updates necessarry for the Flex integration.  Peter Martins Adobe Weblog was a great help in getting me through the long and tedious process after I downloaded the plugin from the Flex Exchange on Adobe.  Needless to say it took me most of last night and well into today to get it working to a practical state - and thank God it didn't crash as some people have reported.  Now I can have Flexbuilder and Eclipse run side by side doing pretty much the same thing as far as code goes - which I'm not sure is something that I wanted in the first place.  Well I wanted to move away from Dreamweaver and try Eclipse after enjoying Flexbuilder so much - and I did, darn it!  Now either way I work I'll be working in an Eclipse enviornment - for now.  I actually do plan to take on one of the ton of projects I mentioned at the beginning of this blog and start it as my first Eclipse venture.  Hopefully it will relieve some of the stress I've been suffering from since I got home.  Not stress from the Eclipse incident - just that post stress thing I suffer from when I get a really good injection of code or enthusiasm to do something and have not yet focused my codingturtle abilities to one outlet of the 'coding force'.  The only thing keeping me together has been, ironically the Eclipse incident, and listening to my new Bullet for my Valentine DVD I picked up in London and my new HIM album that I also got. Well that and my other half - bless him - if he ever takes up a blog it will be titled the story of the long suffering turtle lover......