Does CFEclipse have a future with Adobe?
Alright Adobe... Time to step up to the plate. Mozilla is putting their full support behind Firebug and creating a new team. Shouldn't Adobe do the same with CFEclipse? It's obvious that Homesite+ and Studio are gasping for air and Dreamweaver sure doesn't fill the gap. Come on Adobe. Help Mark Drew out!
Is Local ColdFusion development practical?
I used to develop entirely on development servers. This was fine until I started working 100% remotely about 5 years ago. At first I still used Homesite+ via RDP and continued to write code on the dev servers. Then I started using Eclipse/CFeclipse for my IDE. I have no regrets making that switch, but I was then limited to using Windows mapped drives to connect via a slow VPN connection (No RDP for CF5). Not Good! Eclipse was really-really slow doing anything over this connection. Somewhere in that time-frame I also started using Subversion and if I installed Subclipe it would literally kill Eclipse while it refreshed a project.
I now use various virtual machines running in VMWare Workstation. This is a terrific way to program locally on your PC, but still have the flexibility to configure just about anything that you want for a development setup. I typically use a much smaller database in the this dev scenario, as moving 10-20 GB of data over that same slow VPN connection is not any fun.
Well, today it bit me.
Irony at it's finest!
I searched on the term "coldfusion" for job openings at a company that creates products based on Coldfusion.
The response that I received was: "Your search contained invalid search terms, please adjust your search and try again. Thank you."
How's that for ya!?
Per Application Settings Rock!
I never liked my folder layouts on shared hosting servers. I would place transfer, fusebox, customtags, and other items in the web root that really did not belong there.
I'm now moving an application from CF7 on shared hosting to CF8 on a Win2k VPS at ahphosting.
This is the perfect opportunity to try out CF8's new per application settings for mappings and custom tag paths.
Railo - A look at one fast alternative
I have a CentOS VPS at Viviotech, which is running Bluedragon 7. This is really for my personal web sites and not really a money making proposition! I haven't been overly excited about Bluedragon and started looking around for alternatives. I'm also planning a site that could potentially be high traffic, so performance is also on my mind.
All the current buzz is about ColdFusion8, which is great, as there are some neat new features, but I wanted to keep an open mind. (I'm sure I'll lobby for CF8 heavily at my day job when it is finally released though!). To think that I'm still using CF5! Jeepers.
I saw a post by Sean Corefield about Railo and decided to take a look.
Headless Linux, LylaCaptcha, BlogCFC and Bluedragon: Part 2
I left off with graphic manipulation working on CentOS and Bluedragon. At this point Lyla Captcha should be able to create an image, but it doesn't... Bummer. Keep in mind that part 2 is specific to Bluedragon 6.2. Hopefully it will work in BD7.
Headless Linux, LylaCaptcha, BlogCFC and Bluedragon: Part 1
I use a CentOS VPS at Viviotech and while not a Linux nut, I manage to install a few things, keep my email working and the occasional web site running.
I decided to install BlogCFC, but it bombs out while loading. I'm running Bluedragon 6.2.1, which has trouble with LylaCaptcha (actually any graphic manipulation). The BlogCFC documentation states to disable Captcha, but that didn't make me happy... Leaving the door wide open to spammers didn't make sense.
