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:
PDF: cfml-ide-report-041708
Excel: cfml-ide-report-041708
Both these are just a dump of the data - no pretty graphs. I’m [...]
Alan has a list of the OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) Steering Committee on his blog:
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 [...]
We have a standard directory structure for each of our projects:
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CODE:
projectname
/docs
/testing
/build
/priv
/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 [...]
If you haven't listened to the Vince Bonfanti interview on ColdFusion Weekly yet - go do it.
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!), [...]
One of the things that bugs me with the default Trac install is the ticket list. By default the Active Tickets list sorts by value (?), milestone, type and time. Usually however I want to sort by Ticket # so I can see what I added most recently. Luckily Trac makes this [...]
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 [...]
Today reading John Resig's post about Open Source Release Syncing I thought there were some good bits in there about WHY people support open source software, especially this quote (I added the bold emphasis):
At the jQuery project I've generally split our time indiscriminately but with a sleight bias towards Free Software. By biasing towards Free [...]
Like a trusty six shooter, every developer needs a good text editor in their toolbox.
For heavy lifting it's great to wheel out the IDE (CFEclipse, Dreamweaver, etc) but for those quick edits using an IDE can seem like overkill. A simple text editor is lightweight and designed for doing one thing well - [...]
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