Creating A Great Dev Environment

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:39:00 -0000

So what's the best setup for doing ColdFusion development? How can you be most efficient? That question will have many different answers for different people, but I think the way I'm currently doing things will work for a lot of people. And best of all, every piece of software mentioned below is available for download free of charge. In the past, I always used an external web server for testing my code since I didn't want to slow down my local machine. To make it easier for developers, ColdFusion has included an integrated web server since version 6.0 can be used for local development. This web server is installed by default with the ColdFusion Developer Edition, and is a fully-functional, single-IP version of ColdFusion Enterprise. The webroot for this testing server is at cfmxroot/wwwroot (more on this later). CFEclipse is the new kid on the block when it comes to code editors. This project, based upon the open-source Eclipse platform, was originally begun by Rob Rohan and continues to pick up steam amongst ColdFusion developers. It's really easy to add plugins to eclipse, and one of the critical ones you'll need is the Subclipse plugin for working with Subversion repositories. This will allow you to handle all of your source control tasks from right within Eclipse. For those not yet using source control, stop everything and don't write another line of code until you get Subversion setup. For a detailed rundown on how to get started, check out this blog post. [More]

Setting Up Subversion In An Instant

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:02:00 -0000

One of the biggest issues being pushed at this year's CFUNITED conference was the need for each and every one of us developers to be using some sort of source control. I've since joined the converted faithful and have seen the light as to just how important source control is, especially when working in a team environment.

Subversion is a free, easy-to-use, source control server with widespread support including direct integration with CFEclipse as well as the Windows file system. This is my quick and easy guide to getting up and running and setting up your repositories. It only takes a matter of seconds to setup each new repository instance, so hopefully this will allow everyone to get up and running in a jiffy. Keep in mind that these directions are for Windows, but should be pretty similar for the Mac.

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Building Blocks - Subversion

Creating A Great Dev Environment

Setting Up Subversion In An Instant