Coldfire - revelation!

Posted on June 23, 2008
Filed Under ColdFusion |

I’m probably late to the party, but I only just discovered ColdFire - an addon for the indispensible Firebug Firefox extension.

I already find Firebug a must for any web developer. When I don’t have it available to me, I feel like I am blind trying to find my way around the maze of CSS box floating left, absoluting right and positioning relative. I wonder at times if whoever wrote the CSS spec was on drugs. But I digress.

ColdFire hooks into the CF debugger so you can get access to the same debug info you would get from CF if you had debugging turned on. Problem is, I often have it off these days since it severely slows down page rendering on some frameworks (ModelGlue) or buggers up the rendering of CSS layouts.

ColdFire to the rescue! Apparently it’s just made the top 3 downloads on RIAForge. Why haven’t noticed it before??

Anyway I’m a happy camper. The more tools in a web developers arsenal, the better as far as I’m concerned!

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7 Responses to “Coldfire - revelation!”

  1. raZorTT on June 24th, 2008 3:57 am

    Yeah you are a bit late ;).
    One thing that i’ve done is added a smidgen of code to the coldfire.cfm template so that if you are testing in IE debugging will show up and you don’t have to go into the admin to flick it back to classic.

    I added a cfelse to the coldfire check:

  2. raZorTT on June 24th, 2008 3:58 am

    doh stupid code!

    <cfelse>
    <!— if not use classic —>
    <cfinclude template=”classic.cfm”>

  3. raZorTT on June 24th, 2008 7:05 am

    Now if only they’d update firebug to work with FF 3.0 ;)

  4. Gareth Arch on June 24th, 2008 2:50 pm

    Works for me…
    http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1843/
    Select the most recent for FF 3.0

  5. raZorTT on June 25th, 2008 1:50 pm

    Thanks for that Garth, I couldn’t get the download to work the other day from the firebug website. That one worked like a charm.

  6. Nathan Mische on June 30th, 2008 1:54 pm

    Glad to hear you like ColdFire. Be sure to check out the latest version, 1.2.51.65. It works with Firebug 1.2.0b4 which was released over the weekend.

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