I can only speak for myself, but where I work, it's near impossible to watch a video without looking like you're not working. Additionally, I can't copy/paste code from a video or quickly skim to see if it's what I want. I think short, concise, and targeted posts are the way to go. Something "like" this https://tutorialzine.com/2010/10/css3-animated-bubble-buttons (link is just to demonstrate post length, content, etc, I only skimmed it so I have no say about the quality of the code, etc.)

This would have been useful SO MANY TIMES! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this! This looks like a pretty useful tool and I can't wait to give it a try.

Yes, probably. I think it's in its death throes at best. People still use it (my team does) but only because that was the infrastructure that was offered to us for the past 10-15 years where I work. My team is actively moving away from it now that our IT dept has opened up more options. We're moving to PHP, Node, & Ruby but will be required to keep CF around for a number of years yet because we simply cant afford to refactor everything that is still in production. Hopefully Adobe will keep adding security patches just enough that we don't have to migrate everything off of it all at once. So, I have a love/hate relationship with the language. I feel like Adobe invested in the wrong parts of the technology and charged way too much for it (which can be said about a lot of Adobe products), but I actually really enjoyed programming with it for the last decade. But, as a CF developer, there are virtually no jobs asking for it and other developers snicker when you mention that you use it, so, sadly, we must move on.

I have lots of hobbies. Some I practice more than others and none I do as much as I'd like. I definitely prefer non-tech/non-computer related hobbies. I think I like the juxtaposition. Gardening Writing (fiction) Cooking/Grilling/Canning/Dehydrating Hiking/Camping Kayaking (just getting into it) DIY home renovations Running PC gaming Beer/Mead making Nature photography There are a bunch of articles out there that talk about studies that link spending a few days in nature, unplugged from gadgets, and an improvement in creativity. I haven't really look too hard at the studies, but anecdotally, I certainly feel that it does. I highly encourage folks in our industry to unplug from time to time. http://wilderness.org/blog/study-shows-time-outdoors-away-technology-can-boost-creativity "The authors concluded that four nature-filled days - intentionally away from electronic devices - were linked with 50 percent higher scores on a test for creativity. "

It still is promising, just maybe not as a consumer product: https://www.x.company/glass/ has some cool examples.

Make a kill switch.

I have to say I'm undecided. It's really unclear to me what the DRM as part of the spec will actually do. If it is designed so that ANYONE who produces content can enable DRM if they so choose, then, I'm ok with it. If you create content and want to protect it, it would be nice to have an easy-to-use standardized method of doing so that works well and is familiar to the customer. However, if the idea is to get vendor specific DRM built into the spec that is for use by ONLY the vendors, then, uh, yeah, that would be pretty dumb.

I wondered the same thing. However, I have numerous other sources where I can read about industry news, but not many I feel I can participate in. Even before the change, I never really saw a lot of discussion come from the links. So, I, for one, welcome the change.

Have you tried it? If so, how well does it work?