thecrumb.com » Life http://www.thecrumb.com ColdFusion, Ant, jQuery and other geeky stuff with the occasional motorcycle post. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:52:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CMFL IDE Survey - Initial Results http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/17/cmfl-ide-survey-initial-results/ http://www.thecrumb.com/2008/04/17/cmfl-ide-survey-initial-results/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:46 +0000 Jim http://www.thecrumb.com/?p=425 The ‘Open’ CFML Survey has been up for about a week. As promised here is the first round of results:

Total Number of Survey Results 371
First Result 4/09/08 1:35 AM
Last Result 4/16/08 6:45 PM

Results are available in both PDF and Excel:

Both these are just a dump of the data - no pretty graphs. I’m going to try and go through some of this data and summarize it a bit in a more readable format (hopefully I can get to this over the weekend)

I did dump the HTML output (with pretty graphs) into a PDF as well.

This is a bit nicer to look at but you can’t drill down into the ‘other’ replies, etc.

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Andy Allan, Peter Amiri, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Mark Drew, Adam Haskell, Jordan Michaels, Alan Williamson, Matt Woodward and Andy Wu

LOTS of good names on there and some really nice quotes but obviously I’m going to have to step up and volunteer for the committee myself.

OpenBD is FREE

“formalised language”… “masterful clustering-replication mechanism”…

Huh?

Not one of them mentioned the dreaded ‘f-word‘…. Can’t anyone say it??! Me of shallow pockets (have you priced kid sneakers lately?) will…

OpenBD is Free!! (it even rhymes - marketing will love that)

OK. Now I feel better.

On a serious note - I am happy to see such prominent names on the committee and I’m really looking forward to seeing where all this goes. Exciting times!

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  1. projectname
  2. /docs
  3. /testing
  4. /build
  5. /priv
  6. /pub

Testing contains our Selenium scripts (and in the future - unit testing scripts). Build contains our Ant scripts.

At the office I'm in charge of setting up new SVN repositories and one of the things I've done to speed up setting up new projects is to create a 'template' project directory. This contains all the folders listed above along with some default buildfile and testing scripts.

I first created this layout in a new repository. I then added our standard buildfiles and testing suite files. I then created a SVN dumpfile using the svnadmin dump command. You end up with a dumpfile containing the contents of your repository.

Now when I create a new project I simple create the new project's repository, and then use the svnadmin load command to import my 'default' dumpfile contents.

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  1. /usr/bin/svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/www/svn/projectname
  2. sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/svn/projectname
  3. sudo svnadmin load /var/www/svn/projectname </var/www/svn/tmp/template.dumpfile --ignore-uuid -q

Now when the first person checks out the project - they already have the required directory structure, buildfiles and testing templates.

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To be honest I was expecting a bit more of a 'cut-n-paste' interview where Vince responded with canned responses. It was anything but. Vince gave a great overview of his history (he's a developer GASP!), the history of BlueDragon, and why they decided it was time to go open-source. He answered a ton of questions and cleared up quite a few things I was wondering about.

It was funny because he mentioned using File Maker Pro and having it connect to the web. That was EXACTLY the reason I discovered ColdFusion. A Mac user at my company had a huge File Maker database that he wanted to 'webify'. At the time there was no ODBC connection to File Maker and I went exploring options and found ColdFusion.

Listening to Vince, it's clear that he gets open-source. I'm even more excited about the release of OpenBD now than I was before.

On a side note there is a new OpenBD mailing list.

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A fun 2D physics sandbox

But it's really hard to describe. Checkout screenshots and the especially the video on the media page.

I could see this being a neat education tool to explore gravity, motion, etc... I'll certainly be installing this on the kids computer (Linux download available!) so they can tinker! I originally suspected he used Flash but not according to the site:

Phun was coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem. Everything was coded by me, including the physics engine and user interface.

Very cool!

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Depending on your permissions when you click on an available report you should see several buttons at the top of your screen:

Trac Ticket Edit

Simply click Edit Report and you will be taken to a dialog where you can adjust the title of the report, the description and the query which pulls the data for the report!

The query for the default Active Ticket report looks like:

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  1. SELECT p.value AS __color__,
  2.    id AS ticket, summary, component, version, milestone, t.type AS type,
  3.    (CASE STATUS WHEN 'assigned' THEN owner||' *' ELSE owner END) AS owner,
  4.    time AS created,
  5.    changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description,
  6.    reporter AS _reporter
  7.   FROM ticket t, enum p
  8.   WHERE STATUS IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened')
  9. AND p.name = t.priority AND p.type = 'priority'
  10.   ORDER BY p.value, milestone, t.type, time

Changing the sort order is a simple matter of adding an additional field to the ORDER BY:

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  1. SELECT p.value AS __color__,
  2.    id AS ticket, summary, component, version, milestone, t.type AS type,
  3.    (CASE STATUS WHEN 'assigned' THEN owner||' *' ELSE owner END) AS owner,
  4.    time AS created,
  5.    changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description,
  6.    reporter AS _reporter
  7.   FROM ticket t, enum p
  8.   WHERE STATUS IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened')
  9. AND p.name = t.priority AND p.type = 'priority'
  10.   ORDER BY ticket DESC, p.value, milestone, t.type, time

Since it's simple SQL it's very easy to create new reports as well. I've created a few new ones including one for closed tickets and several to pull up tickets based on certain components, etc.

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It was fabulous!

But now I'm back and hope to crank the blog back up and post a few things I've had on the back burner for some time now about jQuery, Ant and a few more Developer Toolbox applications... stay tuned!

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Today I was editing some code and for some reason (spacing out?) I noticed what the gutters were doing. The gutters are the area I have highlighted in the image above in yellow.

I knew about the TODO icon in the left gutter - but then I noticed the small yellow arrow. That is highlighting the line which contains text you searched for! (CTRL-H). Then notice the right gutter - the blue block is my TODO - the lighter blocks below my search text - so I can easily scan the entire document and clicking on the block will take you to that location.

These appear to be on by default. I clicked around a bit in the preferences very briefly and nothing popped out at me (doesn't mean it's not there!). If you know where to turn these on/off leave a comment!

While digging I did notice a "Quick Diff" option under the General > Editors > Text Editors section.

I enabled this as well as the "Show differences in overview ruler" option. Under "Use this reference for source" I selected "Pristine SVN Copy".

Now I see this in my left gutter:

Show Diff

When I hover my mouse over the gutter it pops up the difference between my copy and the last from SVN which is very handy if you have memory problems like I do :)

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I'm so looking forward to this one. I see in the pics Adam is playing with a RC plane - I can't wait to see how their experiment goes. I REALLY need to get my plane back together and in the air. That looks like some kind of GWS model they are using... the wing looks almost exactly like my Slowstick wing.

I think it's going to take off. I don't really see this as any different than a plane sitting on a patch of ice. The plane still moves forward as it's pushing against the air, not the ground. But we'll see... :)

Update:

  1. The plane flew!!
  2. Kottke live blogs event and opens comments - debate continues
  3. Someone actually registers http://www.airplaneonatreadmill.com

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At the jQuery project I've generally split our time indiscriminately but with a sleight bias towards Free Software. By biasing towards Free Software projects we're able to get better mind share amongst developers - who are our key users. For example, getting jQuery support in Drupal was a major victory for us as it meant that all future Drupal module developers would be compelled to, at least, examine jQuery to see if it suits them well, or not. While there isn't, necessarily, a financial reward to working closely with Free Software the eventual market control will be quite significant and useful for further leverage.

I think companies like Adobe could leverage the same ideas with the goal being the same as jQuery's: market control.

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