March 29th, 2008
So my new Macbook Pro arrived about 4 days ago. I still haven’t opened it, I’m savouring the moment. Oh I’m such a tease.
Stop, badge time…
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February 4th, 2008
Here’s a quick update about my little ColdFusion/Facebook framework. It’s burning up all of my spare time and I could probably rabbit on about it all year, it’s been fun. I’m definitely no natural at blogging, but I do want to get the word out on this one, so here goes a wee news update;
Release Status
Alpha3 has just gone out to a few interested people. The compliments are most encouraging (thanks peeps!) however no bug reports means it clearly needs more users. It’s in no way stable but I’m happy for anyone else to try it. Just drop me a line ;)
Sites and Sounds
I’ve purchased domain names and will probably settle on coldface.org. And why not, it’s catchy. It currently points to the ColdFace category on this blog. I just started up a generalized Facebook group on ColdFusionCommunity.org so please do join if you’re interested in Facebook app development. There’s some documentation on the wiki, it’s on assembla.com and I will probably use them for SVN too. Sorry the doco is sketchy and already needs some re-editing, doh!
In my next post I’ll talk about the basic features and the road ahead.
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January 10th, 2008
So somewhere there’s a war raging about ColdFusion IDE’s.
I use both Dreamweaver and Eclipse split about 50/50. IMO both are missing features and could do with more work done on them. However I can use both proficiently and the ColdFusion IDE war is not a huge deal for me. I am not a designer so there’s heaps of stuff in Dreamweaver I don’t use. Of course I’d love one fully integrated, feature rich, speedy development environment that sparkles like diamonds while doing so, but I’m not really waiting for it.
Generally I choose which IDE to use, by the style of code I’m working with. I think it’s fair to say there are different development ’styles’ and we chop and change as appropriate.
Anyhow my primary thought at this time … I heard once that the /CFIDE folder was once supposed to enable/host a completely ‘online’ code editing system. Which never really eventuated. Don’t kill me on the specifics it’s like a chinese whisper or something.
Fast forward 10+ years and we have Ajax, Flash, Flex and AIR and others. Desktop applications like MS Word and others are going ‘online’.
My vote would be to have a ColdFusion developers environment in the same style. AIR could be a great platform for this ‘online’ development approach which could work dare I say ubiquitously across my PC and my Mac and my local CF installation and my remote CF hosting. And then there’s that whole communal collaboration potential (slight tongue in cheek), sheesh don’t even start me!
Taking java development completely ‘online’ (as in Eclipse going the same route as other online apps) would be quite a task. Doing something revolutionary with CFIDE and AIR might be insanely easy (maybe, shit what do i know) and it would be kudos for those technologies I guess.
It’s 3:20am and I wont hold back in saying those original CF guys were way ahead of their time :)
Disclaimer: just got home from interstate, didn’t read anything other than Mark Kruger’s post. Night night 2008, just slow down, ok.
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December 19th, 2007
‘More stuff I’m not allowed to chew on’
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November 10th, 2007
Recently I was looking to store a ‘timespan’ in a config or ‘ini’ file. To store a truly configurable timespan I’d have to use a list (ie; cacheTime=0,0,2,0) and then programmatically split it up for use in the CreateTimeSpan function.
The ColdFusion docs say CreateTimeSpan returns a ’special’ date-time object. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 9th, 2007
Doh! I’ve already fallen behind in my AOTM posts. I can’t let this die so soon. In September I didn’t listen to much music. So instead we have…
Nintendo Wii
Super Paper Mario
Not an album, you say? I make the rules here. The game has music (although it’s mostly horrible) and I have blogging obligations, so it gets the vote.
Review: It was a fun game, it held my attention for a good few hours (and that’s a lot). I expected more action and I should have just waited for Mario Galaxy. It was a nice change to just sit and play, instead of waving my arms like a crazy person.
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October 6th, 2007
Here’s something, we can now create Facebook test accounts. This is useful for developing and testing your apps without spamming your feeds, profile, friends and so on. Take heed there are some restrictions and guidelines to be considered. Basically test accounts should not communicate with real people and vica versa.
Hey, if you get a test account, why not look me up, or try the ever evolving (and decaying) Coldface Example App.
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October 2nd, 2007
Tonight I’ve updated the Coldface Example App.
The example application now includes a bunch of tests and examples. It tests all known Facebook REST methods, including photo uploads (which I’ve only just mastered). It’d be great if someone, anyone, could try it out.
And a while back I started the Coldface Wiki.
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