ColdFusion Guidelines/Standards what works for you and why

Today we had an interesting discussion on this very subject, now we already have one in place. Yet we have varying opinions on why we should do something, but nothing really concrete as the real truth as to why it should be this or that way. I personally have grown to love the fact that the beginning of a block is on the same line as the method, component class or loops etc. My logic behind this is that it is neater, doesn't clutter the workspace and fairly easy to read.

However my logic just doesn't end there.

Using Ant to change text in files revisited

A few years ago I posted a blog entry that showed how to replace using template files, for a catch up on that entry head on over to Eclipse & Ant tidbit for further reading.

However I ended up modifying that because it was a little bit annoying when a developer on my team, would modify the wrong files. So I looked at another option.

Deploying an Encrypted ColdBox Application and a gotcha

I currently run my on a shared hosting provider and felt that it was time that I actually encrypted the source files, I added some extra logic to my Ant build.xml to take care of this and as I had used it in the past I never expected any problems with this.

However I was dead wrong with that assumption.

How to run a 32bit eclipse and 64bit Eclipse side by side

For a long time I could never find if there was a 64bit version of Eclipse, and found that deep within the eclipse.org site there is an actual 64bit version.

Not sure why this was never available at the start when asking for downloading the windows version, but these small things are annoying to say the least.

Anyway putting that aside, I was able to download it and get it running without any hitches on Windows 7. The problem arised when trying to get CFEclipse installed in to the 64bit Eclipse version, and although that is another story I got that to work eventually too.

Setting up file associations in Eclipse

It appears that not to many people know this, and it isn't as hard as one might think. When we install the CFEclipse plug-in into Eclipse, it will set itself up for the associations that CFEclipse needs which is ColdFusion files. Which is fine if the user only wishes to edit source files, and by default Eclipse will then use the association from windows to display or edit any file association it doesn't know about.

Eclipse & Ant tidbit

Although this is nothing new to Eclipse, or ant but it is not really used that much in the Coldfusion Development world.

Well at least I rarely have seen anyone using it.

Pairing within Eclipse

One of the things that we do often at Aegeon, is pair programming. This has huge advantages, in the development lifecycle.

But there is one downside to this.

Eclipse hidden gem

Or maybe its not..

While doing some work on a project the other day, I actually hit compare against local history. Now I had see this here a number of times, only this time I clicked it by accident.