Apr 12 by Michael Benner
That's right, I have officially gotten "Off The Windows". I had one program left that I was using in Parallels. Any guesses? Yup, the beast that is MS SQL 2005. While I have been making the move toward mySQL, legacy systems still need maintaining. So after digging around I found SQL Explorer for Eclipse. It took a bit to get it installed, so I am posting the steps here to help others looking to bring MS SQL into Eclipse.
Mar 28 by Michael Benner
...And I think I love you (or more accurately flash remoting) again.
Flash back to ColdFusion 6 MX and Flash 5. Something called Flash Remoting was added to the mix and it let me put data into Flash from ColdFusion. Now I am a CF developer not a Flash Designer, but I as beaming with ideas on how cool this would be.
So my company embarked on a project to make a CRM in
Mar 25 by Michael Benner
OK, so on the group today has been a discussion about tag insight/auto complete. A) How do I shut if off? and B) Why would you? First the easy part, to shut it off go to Windows->Preferences->CFEclipse->Editor->Delay Insight. Set that value to something high (it is in milliseconds) and there you go.
Now I am in the A camp for a few reasons that
Mar 7 by Michael Benner
thecrumb.com brought to my attention the entry for CF support in Aptana (Aptana Request). You all know I am a huge support of Aptana and CFEclipse, please take a minute and add your name to the request. I am not looking for them to replace CFEclipse, but to work with them and use their resources to take what I think is the best CF editor to the next level.
Aug 6 by Michael Benner
So after fighting with adobe.com I was finally able to download Coldfusion 8.
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If you are going to require that data be in a users profile to download and use your site and you are the leader in web based technology, make sure there is no possible way to have that data be missing. And if you do over look that feature, make sure that when the site errors it tells you the real reason and your user does not have to guess and have some develop knowledge to figure out what went wrong.
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Now for those that don't know on Friday I tried to download and install CF8 on my current development server.
