Notepad++ the best lightweight CF editor

Every developer needs a trusty text editor that does more than just Notepad - something that’s lightweight, loads fast, has good searching features and some syntax highlighting. Eclipse is indispensible, but there are plenty of times I just can’t be bothered firing it up - or if it’s open, the file I want to edit [...]

Mango blogging - more choice is what we want!

I only just stumbled on the Mango blogging engine via a post on fusiongrokker - it’s great to see another CF powered blogging engine out there. I’ve played with BlogCFC in the past but didn’t quite meet my requirements for various reasons.
When I re-established this blog, I went with Wordpress which was evolved into a [...]

CFQueryParam Tips

Usually I don’t unneccessarily link off to other blog entries that are syndicated on the same aggregator, but this post at Rabidgadfly regarding the use of LIKE and IN and CFQUERYPARAM is just too useful to pass up.
I was just about to look into how to pass params LIKE and IN params via CFQUERYPARAM and [...]

ColdFusion syntax highlighting in Wordpress

So this is a code blog and every good with a lot of code needs a good code plugin. A friend put me onto a nice little plugin for WP called SyntaxHighlighter Plus - it leverages off a googlecode project that highlights for a whole swag of languages all in javascript. Pretty slick.
Unfortunately there is [...]

Farcry 5 just keeps getting better…

Farcry has been going for quite a long time now. It’s a huge credit Geoff and the guys at Daemon that they have not only maintained but continually improved upon the Farcry framework for so many years.

Version 5 has just been released (I have been using Farcry for various projects since v2 - I think [...]

Icewhole.com - social networking for the film industry

Perhaps this is a little bit of blatant promotion, but I am working on a very exciting project at the moment that takes social networking to the film industry - Icewhole.com
It’s an entirely ColdFusion powered site with an MSSQL backend and On2 Flash encoding engine powering the film and music video sections of the site. [...]

Firefox extensions - the essentials for any CF developer

Since I discovered ColdFire and apparently I was late to the party, I thought I might detail the small number of extensions I rely on every day. They were the first things that got installed once I setup my dev environment on my new laptop and I regard them as absolutely indispensible for an CF [...]

Coldfire - revelation!

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 [...]