Now if you click-and-drag those icons from the right side of the Dock to the left side, they'll stay there permanently (note the Internet Explorer and Homesite+ icons):

And whenever you click on these icons, VMWare will start up and bring up the application for you-- in Unity mode! It's just like... no, it really is having your favorite Windows apps available to you just like any other MacOS app. Awesomeness, no extra charge.

But someone from the end of my row in the audience told me to speak to him after the session was over, and he told me about Syncro SVN. It has everything you could want in a client-- an integrated view of your repositories, working directories, a great diff viewer, and session log. Plus, it has all of the features you might want, such as the ability to relocate working directories between repositories. If you're not satisfied with other Subversion clients on the Macintosh, I'd suggest you give Syncro SVN a look.

On HGTV's web site, a Flash ad showed up for Sears showing a static picture of some guy dressed up as a dandelion. Beneath him there's a button requesting that you "Roll over the weed". If you do, that's when the commercial gets hilarious.

Once you turn on the sound is when the real fun starts. The dandelion is hilarious, introducing himself as "wisecrack weed. You know what weeds are really good at? Being annoying. [Makes a noise like Curly of the Three Stooges]". Then he practically dares you to "whack" him with one of the Sears tools. The great thing is that as you look over the tools to choose one, he manages to makes sarcastic comments to you while talking up the tools. I just love how the video "reacts" to your own actions. When you finally select a tool, there's a final bit of great video where the weed and the yard tool fight interspersed with cries of "Ow, I want to have kids someday!" or "Thanks, I could use a massage. Ok, that's a little hard." (you can guess who wins).

I don't know how long the ad will be hosted over at HGTV or on Pointroll's network. Give it a play, I think you'll like it as much as I did!

Be sure to make it to the next meeting, when yours truly will be presenting on version-tracking your code with Subversion. I'll be raffling off a free copy of Subversion. ;)

P.S. So that no one misses the joke, then shows up expecting a chance at free software and gets angry at me: I'm kidding. Subversion is already a free download.

Each of these steps is encapsulated in two functions:

<cffunction name="senderIPIsBlacklisted" output="true" hint="Checks an IP address against blacklist services">
	<cfargument name="BLServer" default="zen.spamhaus.org" required="no" />
	<cfset var index = '' />
	<cfset var thisHeader = '' />
	<cfset var REIPString = '(((2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]|[01]?\d\d?)\.){3}(2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]|[01]?\d\d?))' />
	<cfset var IPAddress = '' />
	
	<!--- Extract the sending IP from the email headers --->
	<cfloop index="index" from="#ListLen(this.received, '|')#" to="1" step="-1">
		<cfset thisHeader = ListGetAt(this.received, index, '|') />
		<cfif thisHeader contains 'from' and thisHeader contains 'by' and ReFind(REIPString, thisHeader)>
			<cfset IPAddress = ReMatch(REIPString, thisHeader) />
			<cfset IPAddress = IPAddress[1] />
			<cfbreak />
		</cfif>
	</cfloop>
	
	<cfreturn checkBL(IPAddress, ARGUMENTS.BLServer) />
</cffunction>

<cffunction name="checkBL" output="true" hint="Checks an IP address against blacklist services">
	<cfargument name="IPAddress" required="yes" />
	<cfargument name="BLServer" default="zen.spamhaus.org" required="no" />
	<cfset var index = '' />
	<cfset var IPPayload = '' />
	<cfset var oBLCheck = '' />
	
	<!--- Reverse the IP address and prepend it to the BL Server --->
	<cfloop index="index" from="#ListLen(ARGUMENTS.IPAddress, '.')#" to="1" step="-1">
		<cfset IPPayload = IPPayload & ListGetAt(ARGUMENTS.IPAddress, index, '.') & '.' />
	</cfloop>
	<cfset IPPayload = IPPayload & ARGUMENTS.BLServer />
	
	<!--- Test the value against the blacklist --->
	<cfset oBLCheck = CreateObject("java", "java.net.InetAddress") />
	<cftry>
		<cfset oBLCheck = oBLCheck.getByName(IPPayload) />
		<cfif Len(oBLCheck.getHostName())>
			<cfreturn true />
		<cfelse>
			<cfreturn false />
		</cfif>
		<!--- If there's an error, it's probably because the IP isn't listed on the BL --->
		<cfcatch><cfreturn false /></cfcatch>
	</cftry>
	
</cffunction>

As always, you can download EmailParse.CFC from my projects section.]]> tag:www.mollerus.net,2008:/tom/blog//1.141 2008-04-11T16:04:22Z 2008-04-11T16:15:55Z