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by Chris Mallinson


Category: Software


If This Then That

A Wonderfully Simple New Service With Endless Potential

It’s a personal assistant for online services, available to act at a moment’s notice to things that happen in your sleep, or when you have better things to do. “If This Then That”, or ifttt.com, is a service that has been around for over a year now, and I’ve used it for several projects in [...]

Querious – MySQL Client for OSX

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This is for Mac people only – sorry Windows friends. I’ve been looking for this for a while. Now, I’m pretty hard core, but I’m not hard-core enough to use the command line for all my interactions with MySQL. If you’ve been using the MySQL Query Browser that can be downloaded form mysql.org, you probably know that it will crash if you breathe on it. I’ve looked at a few of the clients that have come out for MySQL, but none have made me want to shell out money to replace what I had.

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Bolt Action?

Adobe really needs to get this right. Bolt, the soon to be released IDE for ColdFusion, is the talk of the town in the CF community, and let me tell you – it better be good. I have to say, I’m not really that pleased that this is an Eclipse based product. I’ve almost completely dropped Eclipse lately due to instability – at least on the Mac. I think that Adobe could have made this product a stand-alone product on its own platform, and still allowed it to be extensible (If you have not heard, you will be able to write extensions for Bolt with CFML, which is all kinds of awesome).

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