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Review Board: Code Reviews Made Easy (Installation)

Jim — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:49:34 +0000

We’ve been talking a lot about improving our code at work and code reviews have come up several times, and we’ve even had a few informal code review but they always seem a bit tedious. I dug around a bit looking at online tools too help and discovered Review Board: Review Board is a powerful web-based [...]

Ant Presentation Files

Jim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:24:37 +0000

I’ve finally bundled up my Ant presentation files. I recently gave this presentation at TACFUG (Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group) and got some pretty positive feedback. Hopefully now with the examples – people who attended can hack these up and do something useful with them! This file contains: Older PPT version of the presentation I gave on CFMeetup [...]

Railo Express – Quick and Dirty CFML Server

Jim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:44:26 +0000

During the recent Adobe User Group Tour – I had to whip up a little app to randomly pick some winners from our RSVP list. Easy enough but when I went to code it on my laptop I realized I had never installed ColdFusion on it. Oops. I was a bit pressed for time and really [...]

Using Environment Properties In Ant

Jim — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:39:15 +0000

Tinking around with Ant I found out you can reference system environment properties within your build file. So in Windows for example you can run SET at the command line and get a long list of properties: U:\>set ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users ANT_HOME=D:\ant APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\priestj\Application Data CLIENTNAME=zappa You can easily reference these in your build file – first set property environment [...]

Enterprise Level Wiki and Issue Tracker For $5 Each

Jim — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:24:09 +0000

Check out the Atlassian Stimulus Package! $5 / 5 days – get… JIRA ( Issue tracker – 5 users ) Confluence ( Wiki – 5 users ) So for a whopping $10 you can have an enterprise level bug tracking and documentation system in place! They are raising money for Room To Read… Who help improve education in the developing world [...]

Making Your Build Files User Friendly

Jim — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:03:06 +0000

I’m working on a build file for the Model-Glue project and want to make it as user friendly as possible. Turns out this is very easy in Ant! First always include a description in your build file – you can be a bit more verbose, I kept this short for the example: <description> Ant script to create new [...]

Where Does CFEclipse Fit In An Open CFML World?

Jim — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:18:08 +0000

Lately with all the news about open source CFML I’ve been wondering where CFEclipse fits in? We all know Bolt is on the horizon but being an Adobe product I simply don’t see it supporting the other CFML engines. While CFEclipse certainly isn’t going anywhere – I do wonder about it’s future. Mark Drew has moved [...]

Why Closed Source Frustrates Me And Another Plea To Adobe

Jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:23:08 +0000

Today I’ve been thinking how great open source is… All the recent Railo and OpenBD news – big things for CFML! E Text Editor goes ‘open company‘ (now maybe we’ll see a Linux version!) And my daily work with JIRA is enhanced because I know I can peek under the hood at any time… And then I get an [...]

Open Source CFML Makes Me Cry

Jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:54:06 +0000

Yep. I’m the “Linux” guy. The anti-Microsoft basher that you get tired of hearing. But I can’t help it. Open-source is here to stay I think and we all need to get used to it – and this includes the CFML community! The CFML world has long had a closed mindset and I still don’t think [...]

Amateras – An Aptana Alternative?

Jim — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:12:53 +0000

One topic that pops up constantly on the CFEclipse mailing list is what do you use to edit HTML/JS/CSS/XML? The typical answer is Aptana, but I may have found an alternative: Amateras’ Eclipse HTMLEditor. I’ve just installed and am still digging around but it looks feature rich. There doesn’t seem to be autocomplete for CSS but it [...]