Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org Adobe has conducted surveys on ColdFusion IDEs in the past but, for obvious reasons, hasn't posted the results. Now Jim Priest has <a href="http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/09/the-open-cfml-ide-survey/">created an 'Open' CFML IDE survey</a>. Encourag... http://corfield.org/entry/Community_Survey_About_CFML_IDE seancorfield 2008-04-09T10:47:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion Just noticed a great <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/eclipse_extensions.html">article by Roman Villareal on the Adobe Developer Connection</a> about customizing Eclipse for ColdFusion development. It walks you through inst... http://corfield.org/entry/Using_Eclipse_for_ColdFusion_development seancorfield 2008-03-10T20:41:00-05:00 adobe cfeclipse coldfusion I'd heard of this option in Eclipse but never tried it... until today! It started with <a href="http://www.henke.ws/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=DA4F4710%2D188B%2D4E84%2D15DAB2449F54C98D">Michael Henke's blog</a>, where he asked peop... http://corfield.org/entry/Fast_Views_in_Eclipse seancorfield 2007-10-26T16:22:00-05:00 coldfusion cfeclipse Serious question! I've been using the free version of XML Buddy for ages with Eclipse and it mostly works really well but it also kind of annoys me with its quirkiness. Some people I respect love oXygenXML and have gone ahead and paid good money ... http://corfield.org/entry/Is_oXygenXML_worth_it seancorfield 2007-09-25T00:29:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion I just added my cfcUnit facade code into my <a href="http://code.google.com/p/org-corfield-cfmx/">Google Code project</a> that already contained Closures, Concurrency, IRCBot and Scripting. Rich Kroll sent me a nice little fix for a bug in the facade... http://corfield.org/entry/CFEclipseFacade_moved_to_Google_Code seancorfield 2007-08-22T10:53:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion oss There's a very useful setting in the CF8 Eclipse-based debugger that you might miss: Break on a CFML runtime exception. In Eclipse, go to Window > Preferences... > ColdFusion > Debug Settings. If you enable this option, the debugger will stop when... http://corfield.org/entry/A_ColdFusion_8_Debugger_Tip seancorfield 2007-08-08T18:16:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion Charlie Arehart has painstakingly pulled together two great blog entries that <a href="http://carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2007/7/10/come_read_70_CFEclipse_bloggers">list all blogs that have a CFEclipse category</a> and <a href="http://carehart... http://corfield.org/entry/Need_help_with_CFEclipse_Read_these_blogs seancorfield 2007-07-10T23:20:00-05:00 coldfusion cfeclipse A useful tip from Andy Jarrett: if you are having any problems with Eclipse or any of its plugins, you can <a href="http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/andy/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/19/Eclipse-error-logs">easily view the error logs inside Eclipse</a>. I didn't... http://corfield.org/entry/CFEclipse_Error_Logs seancorfield 2007-06-20T13:42:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion This seems to be a Frequently Asked Question lately so I figured I'd highlight it on my blog: Is there a pop-up tag editor in CFEclipse that is vaguely like CFS / HS? Yes, click on a tag then right-click and select Edit This Tag. You'll get a d... http://corfield.org/entry/Yes_Virginia_there_IS_a_tag_editor seancorfield 2007-06-07T03:50:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion Mark Drew has posted a new video <a href="http://www.cfeclipse.org/index.cfm?event=page&amp;page=TV">introducing the Frameworks Explorer</a> on the CFEclipse TV page. If you haven't seen this great new plugin, check it out! I'm finding it invaluable... http://corfield.org/entry/Frameworks_Explorer_on_CFEclipse_TV seancorfield 2007-05-11T00:37:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldspring Mark Drew has released the <a href="http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/5/Project-U-CF-Frameworks-Explorer-Released">Frameworks Explorer</a> plugin for CFEclipse (codenamed "Project: Unity"). This is an <strong>incredible</strong> piece o... http://corfield.org/entry/Like_Frameworks_Youll_Love_This seancorfield 2007-05-06T00:19:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion I've posted the facade CFC that lets you use <a href="http://cfcunit.org/">cfcUnit</a> with the CFUnit plugin for CFEclipse to the 'SOFTWARE' pod on my blog. First, if you haven't already done so, install cfcUnit. Second, if you haven't already... http://corfield.org/entry/cfcUnit_Facade_for_CFUnit_Plugin seancorfield 2007-04-21T02:10:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion tdd After my post about jUnit, decided to have a look at how CFUnit integrates with Eclipse to see how easy or how hard it would be to make it work with cfcUnit. First off, the CFUnit code is Windows-centric, assuming expanded file paths contain \ ins... http://corfield.org/entry/cfcUnit_and_Eclipse_integration seancorfield 2007-04-19T23:11:00-05:00 tdd cfeclipse I'm doing some consulting right now that has me writing Java code. The more Java I write, the more I'm reminded of why I like ColdFusion so much but that's another story. The company I'm consulting for likes unit testing, which makes me very happy. T... http://corfield.org/entry/Eclipse_and_jUnit seancorfield 2007-04-18T22:34:00-05:00 cfeclipse programming One of the recent advances in CFEclipse has been the full overhaul of FTP/SFTP support in the File Explorer. Scott Stroz has an excellent <a href="http://www.boyzoid.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/21/Using-FTP-from-inside-CFEclipse">overview blog post abo... http://corfield.org/entry/CFEclipse_and_FTP seancorfield 2007-03-22T00:34:00-05:00 cfeclipse coldfusion