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...
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...
I had an email come in and thought this would be useful for others promoting technical change. I'd love everyone using Eclipse so we could take advantage of Mylyn, you seem to really push its powers, however, we have some here that are very stuck in their development ways, so it might not work. Do...
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 was prep-ing for a Mylyn / Tasktop presentation in Kansas City at D2WC . My mom was visiting and we were in the living room watching a short presentation on Mylyn . My mom, a retired grade school teacher, kind of jumped forward in her seat and exclaimed "That is very useful". The feature she...
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)...
With another outstanding CFObjective over, I would like to mention d2w is coming up in July. This conference will have familiar faces from CFObjective and CFUnited along with many others since this conference focuses on Workflow for Developers and Designers . Sessions are geared toward improving...
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...
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.
I read Jason Dean's " The new Fusion Authority Quarterly Update is out " post and found out the latest FAQU was released. The FAQU is a well edited and researched ColdFusion publication. There is alot of free material/knowlegde available on the web but FAQU is worth the nominal subscription fee....
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 attended my first ever BarCamp in Omaha. I met a lot of smart individuals using a variety of programming languages. Attendents were from Omaha, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and IA. If you haven't heard of a BarCamp, I hadn't either till last week. I attended sessions over Seaside , Prototype , Geeks...
Here is the link to the Eclipse/Mylyn Slides .
Summary: Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. http://live.eclipse.org/node/573 The...
Next NECFUG meeting: July 22nd - Axel Jensen will be talking about the development process. More details to come. ---- Should be interesting. Axel is very passionate about Flex and ColdFusion. I heard the initial outline concept and it was covering how to use Subversion, Mylyn, ANT, and Trac. Very...
"Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn , you never want to return to the old ways .... " Watch Presentation
CFEclipse users should be using Mylyn even if you don't have a ticket or code repository. You can use it by creating local tasks. It'll make your life easier. Why does Mylyn use the term "task"? This presentation mentions Bugzilla but it is not the focus. Very quick intro into Mylyn. Using Mylyn to...
I stumbed on EclipseCon 2008 presenations last night. The conference was March 17-20. Several are ColdFusion related if you are using Eclipse with Subversion, Mylyn, Debugging, Automation, or Agile. Here is a list of the presentations . If you want to download them all and sort later.
I changed my eclipse.ini file around after researching some jvm option settings. I primarily use CFEclipse, Mylyn, and Subclipse. I am not a jvm options expert, but I referenced several articles . Before modifying the eclipse.ini file please back it up. The ini file can be error prone with returns...
I feel like I am in Battlestar Galactica when using Mylyn to work inside Eclipse. Task focused user interface is the future and the future is now. If you are using CFEclipse , you need to use Mylyn by creating local tasks. I have hooked in Trac and Subversion @ work but the neat thing with Mylyn is...
Don't let PHP get a jump on us :-) Vote for structure bridges for CFEclipse and Mylyn Ticket I entered for requesting a connector bridge for CFEclipse and Mylyn. For more on Mylyn watch this . Seems very cool. I am currently work on introducing Trac @ work and Mylyn is a reason why. Besides (major...