With one arm out of action for the next few weeks anything I can do to type less is good. A few days ago Zen Coding popped up on my radar and today I finally found a few minutes to tinker and try it out. This is the holy grail of lazy typing! Basically it’s [...]
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I’ve finally posted my instructions for getting ColdFusion 9 up and running on VirtualBox! It took me a few times to work through the process and get everything working (and documented) and at one point I forgot the password on the VM image and had to start over again. Oooops. Documentation is now on my [...]
One of the things I’m most excited about in the latest CFEclipse 1.3.5 release is the new code formatting feature. At work we have a LOT of spaghetti code… weird indenting, mixed case tags, etc. With the new code formatter in CFEclipse getting this cleaned up is a matter of a few keystrokes! The mixed [...]
I’m working on an older project written in Fusebox (I’m so happy to be working on something using a framework for a change!) and was struggling to weed through the circuit files. I’m using CFEclipse and editing the XML files using Aptana’s XML editor. My first thought was I could use the Outline view but [...]
Lately I’ve been really trying to avoid using the mouse while coding. You may not realize it but it’s a huge distraction to: Stop typing Find your mouse Find your cursor Hunt for the icon you need Click the icon Release mouse Resume typing That is a lot of work! And you probably do that [...]