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 [...]
For thousands of developers, ColdFusion still pays the bills, and likely will for some time to come, if judging only by the growth in the markets where it is most prominent. Adobe says that CF is thriving with a community of more than half a million developers, but how many of those developers are thriving [...]
I’ve been using Billings for about a year now. It’s a great OSX application for managing clients, projects, and invoices. It’s currently $40, and for the price, it has saved me enough time to be worth it. On the downside, I’ve found it to be less than intuitive on occasion, and I’ve often had to [...]
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.
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).
Am I the only one who just doesn’t understand why so many ColdFusion developers are jumping to Flex? I’m aware that my opinion on Flex and its place may be unpopular in the ColdFusion community, but I’m wiling to entertain the possibility that I may be wrong, so bear with me.