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Building a Self-updating ColdFusion Builder Extension in 3 Steps
Posted on Jul 14, 2009
One of the things I love about Mango Blog is the way it checks for newer versions of itself and updates itself. I was thinking about this along because ColdFusion Builder extensions would seem like a perfect place to implement this kind of functionality. So, I got myself completely sidetracked trying to work out at least an initial draft implementation of how you could do this, using my Application Skeleton Generator extension as the guinea pig. The important thing to note here is that, since ColdFusion Builder extensions are simply CFML, we don't need to do anything fancy - though there were some pitfalls that I will discuss here. Lastly, I will cover how I hope to modularize this so that you can add it to your own extensions.
Continue Reading →ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 7, 2009
Posted on Jul 07, 2009
Two new projects and two updates to ColdFusion open source projects this week. A light week this week, though with the holiday on the 4th and summer vacations its not terribly surprising. I know my own blogging has been extremely light other than these weekly posts. In part its been because of summer vacation and visiting family but also in part because I am thoroughly addicted to inFamous on the PS3 (and I get caught up completing all the side missions which, in my opinion, are even more fun than the main missions). Hopefully I will get some blogging in soon.
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