My company recently hired another developer. It was the first time I was involved in the hiring process. We hired a recent college graduate with no CFML experience and slight PHP. The grad did seem somewhat strong with HTML, SQL, and CSS. Javascript was slight and jQuery non-existant. I'll be doing...
There was a tweet by lolajl about frustrations with installing Mylyn on the CFBuilder2.0.1 beta. My recommendation was to skip trying the standalone then adding Mylyn. I would use Eclipse , then add CFB as a plugin. Below are the steps, I ran through when i installed CFB on Windows. Download...
It has been awhile since I have seen Terrence Ryan from Adobe speak at a conference and he is as engaging as I remember. He lead off the cf.Objective (ANZ) conference with lots of news. @rebel tweeted "It's good to see just how well @tpryan understands his Australian audience #cfoanz". I think that...
I'll be traveling to Melbourne, Australia next week to give an "Introduction Into ColdFusion on Wheels" workshop and attend cfObjective (AUZ) . I would love at least one more person to register for the the CFWheels workshop so please consider it if you are in the Melbourne area. The workspace was...
Recently, I was honored to be on the 2 Devs from Down Under podcast discussing an upcoming session for CFObjective ANZ titled "Task-Oriented Workflow With Adobe Flash & ColdFusion Builder". I edited down my discussion to just over 17 mins here. I was on a panel of 2 other speakers. If you wish to...
I recently switched to Xubuntu as mentioned in a couple recent posts. This weekend I was playing around with Turnkey Tomcat-Apache-ColdFusion and used Eclipse to connect to the virtual machine. I found CFEclipse wouldn't save the cfml file using a RSE connection unless I switched the file editor...
We started Agile development at my work. We are on the third sprint. Today before our standing meeting, I mentioned to a co-worker, " I needed to figure out what I did yesterday ." If you aren't familiar with a sprint standing meeting, you need to cover three items: 1) what you did yesterday 2)...
A cool feature of ColdFusion Builder 2.0 is the Advance ColdFusion Search with tags. This is pretty sweet for example today I wanted to find all the cffile tags with the action write . Let's open up the search, Search --> ColdFusion Search, to see what I am talking about. This is slightly different...
I have a friend who emailed me last night after downloading a public beta for Adobe's second generation of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. He had two gripes: Key Assists and Auto-closing tags....
I downloaded an Adobe software package based on Eclipse for building web applications and installed it as standalone. The software package didn't contain a couple Eclipse tools I use for collaboration. This post will show how to add the latest Eclipse (Helios) update site and install Eclipse tools....
Adobe announced public beta for their second release of an IDE based on Eclipse which enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. "The new beta release provides professional coding tools, server management, testing tools, and new...
Jamie Krug had a great opening presentation on " Complete FOSS CFML Developer Stack " for the OpenCF Summit . FOSS stands for free and open-source software. Jamie used Ubuntu, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, Tomcat, OpenBD / Railo , CFEclipse , and Git . He mentioned you could use any OS like Windows or...
I have a post " Turbo Charging Eclipse " and this is a follow up to show my current eclipse.ini file. I had someone recently mention my suggestions really improved their Eclipse experience. Warning: Before modifying your eclipse.ini be sure to back it up. The ini file is notoriously easy to mess up...
My last several posts have been using Eclipse with CFBuilder or CFEclipse . It is very important ColdFusion Builder and CFEclipse users understand Eclipse. The Eclipse documentation is a great place to start understanding Eclipse. I read the Basic tutorial this weekend. You can find it under the...
I use the Eclipse search and find capabilities quite a bit during the day. If you are using CFEclipse or CFBuilder the Eclipse basics should be the same. Eclipse documentation is a great resource and should be looked at when using CFBuilder or CFEclipse. I will talk about the differences between...
Can you find all the purple balls in the screenshot of Eclipse with a ColdFusion plugin? [Insert Brett Farve & Vikings joke here] Those purple balls are Mylyn focus buttons. You may not have even noticed them in Eclipse before. Think of them as the Staple's Easy button . The purple balls will focus...
This week in ColdFusion and Github news: Github is asking for input from users using windows . It is a short survey. There is an online upcoming event July 13th, covering egit and Eclipse . This would also pertain to users of CFBuilder and CFEclipse naturally. Mr. Corfield mentions adopting a...
First ColdFusion & Github update in a while, I was fishing last week in Northern Minnesota so missed two Fridays. Github now has the concept of organizations to simplify management of group-owned repositories. Github would like feedback from Windows users . Next week, July 13, 2010, there will be...
This post is so I can easily remember how to toggle white space in Eclipse. Since CFEclipse and ColdFusion Builder are the built on Eclipse, the shortcut should be the same. Ctrl+. is the magic combination.
Being the end of the month, I'll also mention monthly updates of ColdFusion on Github besides weekly updates. Some blog posts are about git and coldfusion this past week are:
I'll fix up this post but here is a quick run through. Here is a link to the 5 min screencast of the process to install Mylyn onto ColdFusion Builder standalone.
This week ColdFusion position on Github is currently 31. To put this in perspective, ASP is 27th and PHP is 6th. Please keep creating and moving your open source projects to Github. Most Watched This Week andyj / isValidRSS-CFC bobsilverberg / ValidateThisColdBoxPlugin crimsonskyfalling /...
CFWheels Presentation Information - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm at the MDCFUG Topic: Inspired by Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion on Wheels provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. We will start by covering key principles of the...
This is a 4 part series over Git and GitHub with Riaforge . So far we installed some software , registered for a free GitHub account, created a repository, and cloned it . Lets demonstrate the power of GitHub, anyone can make contributes to a project on GitHub. We will be using CWheels on GitHub to...
I will show how to switch a Riaforge project using SVN to use Git and Github . Git is more geared for open source projects since it easily allows contributes from anyone. A hierarchy might eventually evolve where the project owner watches four of his trusted friends, then those four might watch a...
Here are the records of my presentation over Eclipse and ColdFusion. 07-23-09 - CFMeetup: Leveraging Eclipse for ColdFusion Development 07-14-09 - Leveraging Eclipse for ColdFusion Development (MDCFUG) We will cover Eclipse terms and using the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment.)...
I haven't been able to use ColdFusion Builder extensively yet, but here are my favorite 8 key assists so far. First group is First group is not too amazing and still should be mentioned. They are available in CFEclipse but the wrap in pound signs binding is a different combination. ctrl+shift+a -...
ColdFusion Builder Beta users should be aware when using ColdFusion Builder Extensions, the extension files/folders are being installed in a ColdFusion server's web root that the user selects. This may contaminate your web root with files and folders not relevant to your application releases. It...
I am working on ciFusion , a Bolt Extension, for Continuous Improvement of ColdFusion Code. It seems Java and .Net have many tools for metrics and code analysis but ColdFusion is several years behind. I am hoping to leverage already existing Java tools since ColdFusion works so well with it....
This list is features I feel are very important for a ColdFusion IDE. 1. Mylyn Bridge I use Mylyn daily for work because it helps me multitask and track my time. Currently for ColdFusion files in CFEclipse , Mylyn is defaulted to a file view which is nice, but Bolt needs to have a bridge to get...