Viewing by month: January 2007
Create an RSS Feed of a Public SVN Repository
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
I caught a post on DZone about a site called Sublety that lets you create an RSS feed from any Subversion repository that has public access. For example, I created an RSS feed for my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator Project which is available at http://subtlety.errtheblog.com/O_o/4f.xml. You will notice that it lists any added or modified files, along with the revision number, the user name of the person who committed the file as well as any notes that were included in the commit. This seems like a really useful tool for keeping up with changes to open source projects - particularly for knowing what changes have been made to a bleeding edge release.
On a completely side note, if you are familiar with my code generator, you will notice a couple of recent revisions on that RSS feed. A couple of important issues with the generated code were fixed, so if you use the generator, you should pick up the changes (also updated the downloads on Google code and RIAForge).
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Generating Code vs. Generating Applications
Posted on Jan 17, 2007
This started off as a comment to Steve Bryant's response ("On Code Generation") to my article ("Build a Code Generator in Five Easy Steps") but it got out of hand - yes, I am verbose, sue me.
First, I want to thank Steve for the link. He offers some interesting ideas. There are many paths to code generation obviously, and I only described how I did it, not how it must be done. Here are some of my thoughts to his suggestions...
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 15
Posted on Jan 15, 2007
A lot of new versions, updates and news this week and one significant release. In addition, there are a large number of useful tutorials this week as well. Enjoy.
An Event Apart Boston
Posted on Jan 11, 2007
An Event Apart - Boston is being held from March 26–27, 2007 and features a number of web design and usability luminaries including Steve Krug (who wrote the preeminent usability book - "Don't Make Me Think!"), Eric Meyer (CSS design guru), Jeffrey Zeldman (web standards and usability expert and author of "Designing With Web Standards") among many others. Many of these are the very people behind the online design, usability and standards journal A List Apart. If you are interested in attending, please check a post by John Dowdell which lists an Adobe discount code that will get you a $50 discount.
This is local for me, so attending would be very easy - though I may not be able to attend for financial reasons (read: I need the money for CFUnited and cf.Objective()). Nonetheless, if you are in the Boston area and are interested in design and usability...
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My First Fusion Authority Article
Posted on Jan 11, 2007
My first article for Fusion Authority (online version) was just published this afternoon - you can find it . It is entitled "Build a Code Generator in 5 Easy Steps" and covers in detail the ColdFusion code involved in building my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator (you can also find a download at RIAForge) including working with the AdminAPI, database metadata, XML and XSL. Special thanks to Judith for working closely with me to get my writing refined (the folks at Fusion Authority do a top notch job of editing). Anyway, please check it out and feel free to share any thoughts or comments you may have.