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ColdFusion Builder request list

18, Jun 2010

I just saw the neatest feature in the Linux text editor VI.
All of the links in the code are surfable. You just drill in through the includes between all of your files. Very cool.
I wonder if there’s an extension to do this in CfBuilder, or from the Eclipse world?

Enable or disable RDS on a Coldfusion Server

29, May 2010

It’s well known that RDS shouldn’t be enabled on a production ColdFusion Server.

Over the years I haven’t been much of a user of RDS anyways so I usually just left it disabled.

Lately though RDS is starting to have a lot more value to me, I have been using ColdFusion’s Report Builder a lot more in addition to ColdFusion Builder itself, which use RDS a lot more to expose a lot of neat functionality.

Announcing my Introduction to ColdBox Tutorial: My Coldbox 101

6, Apr 2010

In my original ColdBox 3 review, I mentioned that I would be starting a brief ColdBox Series to cover my experiences and any questions that came my way.
I have used the past few months to approach ColdBox in two different ways:

Existing Applications – Consider porting, or continuing development in ColdBox.  Like any re-factoring, there are [...]

Joel Spolsky quits blogging? But I like breathing!

5, Mar 2010

I came across an article by Joel Spolsky in Inc. Magazine announcing he’s quitting his blog.

For one of the original software development bloggers to announce something like this out of the blue, it seems quite strange.

Joel mentions a number of reasons that I think are interesting to look through:

If you could unlearn everything you know, and start again…

3, Mar 2010

Einstein wasn’t wrong when he said the only thing that got in the way of his learning was his education. Learning how to think — creatively to solve problems, to find dots and connect them, are skills that are hard to find, hard to develop, especially when we can get into a trance with technology.

I think we’re most alive when we create.

Ooops – Automation can be dangerous

24, Feb 2010

So… had a bit of a mixup.

February was a bit of a busy month for me so I wrote some content in advance to publish for sure, and to add more when I had the chance..

Evidently, PHP and wordpress do not work out of the box to automaticaly publish scheduled content.

Maybe I should go to a ColdFusion blog. :)

In any event, my apologies, I’ll post the rest and it should show up on the RSS feeds.

Safety, security and storage of information and passwords

3, Feb 2010

In creating software, be it a startup or a client project, key decisions need to be made and implemented based on security.

In the world of security I have learnt a few things, usually the long way.

Great Software Systems

2, Jan 2010

Happy New Year!
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to continue to build in 2010.
Whether you are on the business side of technology, or the implementation side, there are some common elements to all projects no matter the viewpoint.
Great software systems:

Make users great. Make your users awesome at what they do [...]

Enabling Line Numbers to be visible in ColdFusion Builder

28, Dec 2009

It’s always interesting to see the design / default setting considerations made in software.

One that has always stuck out to me is I can’t figure out for the life of me why most IDE’s don’t enable line numbers by default. No matter what we write, sooner or later we have to refer to the line number.

Luckily for Adobe’s ColdFusion Builder,

Installing ColdBox Platform Extension for ColdFusion Builder

24, Dec 2009

One of the neat discoveries about ColdBox is the ColdBox plugin for Adobe ColdFusion Builder.

Here’s the problem… I couldn’t get the ColdBox Platform Extension installed in ColdFusion Builder with the existing instructions in the link above. I suspect the older version of the ColdFusion Builder allowed you to do it from more than one location.


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