Business is Booming and I Need Your Help
In less than 3 months, I will have been working for myself for 10 years. In that time, I have mostly been able to keep up with client demand on my own. This has been by a combination of hiring occasional subcontractors and turning away business.
Now, however, I have too few clients to turn away and still too much work to handle on my own.
I toyed with TDD and GIT, but I don't know - I must be stupid.
I mean - I couldn't even figure out the new Windows version of Git this weekend.
The sad thing is - I have a feeling that I'm trying harder than a lot of other people.
So what to do about someone that hears about all the latest techniques, but can't quite seem to implement them?
And this isn't a political struggle either - it's not like someone is saying "we can't afford to do such and such".
And I don't know that going to cf.objective would have helped me either. If anything it would have added more fuel to the things I ought to be doing but aren't doing.
Those are great questions! I'm not sure I have the answer.
When I was trying to learn Git, I tried it once and it didn't take. I mean, I couldn't even get started. It seemed like everything I read on the web started at step 3 when I couldn't figure out step 1. Then I tried a few more times, with similar results (including a trip to cf.Objective).
Then I went to cf.Objective last year and went to a hands on session where people like Mike Henke actually helped us install Git and get it running. That really helped.
Still, I wasn't using Git right away. Then I basically just forced myself to use it on a real project. I probably wouldn't have been comfortable enough to do this, if I hadn't had some experience with Git which required the help at cf.Objective, which itself may have benefited from my previous failures.
My experience with TDD was less tedious, but somewhat similar (a presentation in cf.Objective really helped here as well).
In both cases (as with so many other things), I am still very much in the learning stages. I still find I am doing things "wrong" and likely will for some time.
I'm at earlier stages of development with other things. ANT, for example, hasn't clicked for me yet. I'll keep trying though.
My point, if I have one, is that I don't have a magic answer but that continuing to try seems to be the path (at least for me).
All I can say is, to play around with it. Get familiar with the command-line and compare with what you're seeing with Windows GIT. You might want to check out Matthew McCullough (sp??) videos - he seems to be really clear in his explanations on how GIT works.
It would have ColdFusion 10, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft Windows.
Then I would ask for people (you perhaps?) to show an example of TDD, ant, git, Neptune, cfBuilder...
I think that a VPS would be required so that one could see it from the desktop.
Also a VPS gives you more flexibility than a shared server, which is sometimes required with frameworks that need to be off the root.
With apologies for being slow, what would be the major advantage of setting of a VPS for this over some blog entries with code samples?
Otherwise, blog entries might have to suffice for now.
To use Microsoft Windows however would cost $50-60/month.
Do you think people would be put off by being restricted to Railo, mySQL and Linux?
I'd prefer to have Adobe ColdFusion 10, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and Microsoft Windows.
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My thought is to setup a good developers machine and invite people (in the cf community) to come and look at it.
Tried installing Railo and got localhost:8888 to work, but I didn't know how to show that to point a domain name to it.
but after a while I really started to like it ... So much in fact that I started exploring *nix a lot more ...
Fast forward ... I don't develop on windows anymore ...
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