Viewing by month: July 2006
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 31
Posted on Jul 31, 2006
A lot of framework activity this week, including the release of Fusebox 5. Mach-II, Model-Glue and ColdBox each offer us some updated information on their upcoming releases. Also, Andrea Veggiani released a new beta of AVBlog that includes a number of interesting new features that are worth checking out.
Aptana Eclipse-Based Web IDE
Posted on Jul 31, 2006
You may have heard about this on the latest ColdFusion Weekly Podcast (I actually found this on dzone), but Aptana is a new IDE based on Eclipse that offers code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The CSS code assist alone is huge to me since I have not found a decent CSS editor for Eclipse up to now. The code assist will even let you know the compatibility (Firefox/IE) of the attribute. I am just beginning to test this out, but for the moment it seems like an excellent compliment to CFEclipse.
New Google Code Hosting
Posted on Jul 27, 2006
Caught this on Digg, but Google has launched a code hosting project. It includes a project workspace, version cotrol via Subversion, issue tracking and mailing lists. It is also open to any open-source project. Currently there are only two ColdFusion projects listed there - CFWheels and GoogleCheckoutCFC - but worth keeping tabs on.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 24
Posted on Jul 25, 2006
Sorry this is a day late, but I was out of town enjoying the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This week featured a couple of new projects - wddxAjax and varScoper - plus several new documentation resources for existing frameworks. I actually added several new projects to the list but I have not listed them here unless they appeared to be newly released. Remember, you can subscribe to the RSS feed which lists only recent additions to the list.
Just When I thought the RoR Discussion had Cooled...
Posted on Jul 21, 2006
...here it goes again. Well its not all specific to Ruby on Rails exactly, but to Ruby, Rails and some of the underlying concepts like scaffolds and object-relational mapping (ORM). In just the past few days, we have had a brief discussion of incorporating Rails-like functionality into Mach II on the mailing list, Sean's Ruby (sans rails) and ColdFusion comparison, Ted Neward's long-winded explanation of why ORM is the "Vietnam of Computer Science," and now Joe Rinehart's lengthy and detailed explanation of why he doesn't like Rails. In all cases here, the opinions are coming from experts whom I respect and who probably know more about this than I do, but I'd like to share my view nonetheless.