Making the world a better place with ColdFusion, Web Startup, and Software
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?
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.
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 [...]
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,
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.
Once you’re past why someone would develop a new program in ColdFusion, you find a rich community of developers, examples, libraries and frameworks.
I’ve been playing around with the ColdBox Framework for ColdFusion for a few months.
What lead me to ColdBox was a period of discovering and playing around with the discoveries I made with ColdFusion 9 and it’s killer Hibernate ORM integration.
I could no longer program, ever again until ColdFusion 9 came out.. it made for a slower fall on new projects. I decided to dust off the old exploration cap and started looking at what was new and developing in the ColdFusion world.
Today I dealt with a strange issue on one of my client’s servers. It was running ColdFusion 8 Standard, inside a Windows 2003 Server VMware virtual machine.
The first time ColdFusion Server was installed, it crashed/timed out. So we rebooted and uninstalled it. We reinstalled and everything looked okay. When we went into the Coldfusion Administrator and tried to create a new collection, we were presented with an error telling us that the search services are not installed.
Great news,
After enjoying the alpha and beta testing of Coldfusion 9, it has finally been released to the world to do what no other language for the web can do.
Get more done with less code, out of the box. ColdFusion has been my secret swiss-army knife for the past 10 years, while continuing to work [...]
One thing I’ve found myself doing more and more in ColdFusion is using it for it’s integration powers to parse data, or do batch performing tasks. With it’s Java underbelly, ColdFusion does most things great, and if you want even more performance, tie into the Java layer!
I come from the group of people who pursue the dream that computers and technology should make people’s lives easier. That’s why ruthless automation is at the center of most startups, or businesses that are growing. Keep people dealing with people — what they do best, and let your system handle the details for you!
Coldfusion is power with ease. It gets most anything done faster, cheaper, on time compared to any other language.
The language is no where in decline or dying, it’s used by very large organizations who seem to value CF developers highly. Developers can be hard to find, but on the flip side, its probably the easiest language to learn for the web and easily among the top in terms of power and ability.