An Adobe AIR application that brings the ColdFusion 8 documentation to your desktop that is surprising small, easy to use, extremely fast, and built using the Ext JavaScript library.
Get a quick primer on Gears, the open source project by Google that aims to expose new modules and capabilities for the browser that provide general purpose building blocks for web applications to unlock the capabilities of the local machine in a safe manner.
Interested in Adobe AIR? Check out this brief new technologies demonstration I gave on Adobe AIR to my colleagues at Hamilton College.
I was working on some remote files the other day, and being the CFEclipse fan that I am, I decided to use CFEclipse for my remote development instead of Dreamweaver. I usually resort to using Dreamweaver whenever I need to connect to a remote server via FTP to perform my development, whether I am working on a CF or PHP project. The main reason is that the FTP utility included in CFEclipse absolutely BLOWS in my opinion!
I am often conflicted over the use and methodology of cfscript. According to the ColdFusion MX 7 livedocs site on adobe.com, cfscript is defined as:
Read MoreCFScript is a language within a language. It is a scripting language that is similar to JavaScript but is simpler to use. Also, unlike JavaScript, CFScript only runs on the ColdFusion server; it does not run on the client system. CFScript code can use all the ColdFusion functions and expressions, and has access to all ColdFusion variables that are available in the script’s scope.
I came across a document that outlines suggested techniques that CF programmers should adhere to in order to improve the performance of their code. Here is a summary of these techniques…
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