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Adding ModelGlue's Event API to ColdFusion Builder's Code Insight

For the last year or so, all of my ColdFusion development projects have been built using the Model-Glue MVC framework. Over time, you get to where you know the most

CFML

Followup to my CFMeetup Development Environment Presentation

Last week I gave a presentation to the CFMeetup group showing how I use Eclipse and Tomcat to develop CFML applications across any of the current CFML engines (if you missed it and are interested, here is the link to the [meeting recording][1]

CFML

Configure FusionDebug 3 Beta for Use with Railo 3.1 on Tomcat

For the past couple of months, I’ve been running my CFML server engines (yes engines, plural) on top of Tomcat on my local development environment. This offers me, as an independent developer that works on a number of different client projects, a great

CFML

Configuring ColdFusion Applications on Tomcat with Apache Web Server

In my last post I mentioned that I had been toying around with using Tomcat as the only servlet container to deploy all my ColdFusion applications to, regardless of what ColdFusion engine you needed to use for a specific project. My goal in trying

CFML

To .WAR or Not to .WAR?

A week or so ago, Matt Woodward posted a blog entry detailing how to install Railo and Open BlueDragon on Tomcat. Since then I’ve been experimenting with installing not only Railo and Open BlueDragon into Tomcat, but Adobe ColdFusion 8 and MX 7

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 6 - Version Control System

If you’ve been doing development very long, chances are you have had at least one “OH CRAP” or maybe even it’s big brother “OH S…” moments when you realized that you’d just deleted something you can’t get back, overwrote some

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 5 - IDE

I realize it’s been just over a month since the last post in this series and for that I offer my apologies. Several things, both work-related and personal have kept me very busy over the last month–hence the couple of short posts

Development Environments

Start/Stop MySQL from a Terminal Session on OS X

This is a quick post as much to remind myself the next time I need it as anything about how to start and stop MySQL from a terminal window on

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 4 - Database Server

This entry in my series detailing how I have my development environment set up will deal with databases. This is going to be a somewhat shorter post than the others simply because there isn’t as much customization to be done in this area

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 3 - Application Server

This installment in my series detailing how my local web development environment is set up is going to deal with my application server setup. After visiting with several folks at the cf.Objective() conference this year, I was convinced that I needed to configure

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 2 - Web Server

As web developers, one of the most under-appreciated pieces of software in our arsenal is the web server software that answers the calls from the masses of visitors that want nothing more than to pour over every word and image that we put on

Development Environments

My Local Web Development Environment Overhaul Pt. 1 - Overview

As I mentioned in my last post, after attending the cf.Objective() conference earlier this year, I decided that I needed to completely tear down and rebuild my local development environment. My old setup worked well enough, but there were some gotchas in the

CFML

Interesting ColdFusion 8 Debugger Behavior

I sometimes have to remind myself what a useful tool the debugger that’s built into ColdFusion 8 is. Today I was debugging a fairly involved process that I’ve been writing that uses several CFCs including on CFC that contains methods to apply

Development Environments

I Think I'm Going to Like Mylyn

A couple weeks ago I posted about moving our SVN repositories to a hosted solution at CVSDude.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20080306061253/http://www.cvsdude.com/]. I primarily wanted to do that so that I wouldn't have to be responsible for administering

CFML

Disabling CF8 Auto-Start on the Mac

I installed the ColdFusion 8 developer edition a few weeks ago on my MacBook Pro. I installed it as a multi-server installation pretty similar to the recommended way for installing CFMX 7. One of the differences with the installer is that CF8 asks you

MySQL

Eclipse/Ant/MySQL Goodness

I've spent several hours this past weekend working on a project for a client that uses a MySQL database backend. It involves converting thousands of records from XML files exported from the legacy data system. One of the things that's been bugging me is

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