Charlie Arehart posted this to the CFMeetup site this morning so I thought I’d announce it here too. I will be speaking to the CFMeetup group on Thursday, August 20th at 12:00pm ET. We are going to be talking about one way to set up a development environment for ColdFusion application development that will use Eclipse 3.5 and Tomcat 6 to allow you to develop your applications against any of the major CFML server engines out there today.
This will be my first CFMeetup presentation and I’m both nervous and excited.
The link for the CFMeetup is http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/11128508/.
UPDATE: I’ve attached the slides and XML snippet that I referenced in the presentation. The URL for the recording is http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p39094247/. Thanks to everyone for attending and for all the feedback.
For the past couple of months, I’ve been running my CFML server engines (yes engines, plural) on top of Tomcat on my local development environment. This offers me, as an independent developer that works on a number of different client projects, a great deal of flexibility in matching a particular client’s production configuration. Also lately, I’ve been working on a couple of projects using Railo 3.1 as well as a project for a client that still uses CFMX 7. One of the things that I really missed when not developing with ColdFusion 8 is the step debugger that ships with CF8. I’d used FusionDebug some time ago with CFMX 7 when I was running it on top of JRun 4 but had never gotten around to getting it configured under my current, Tomcat-based setup. Until tonight that is.
I ran into a situation while working on a MachII application running on Railo 3.1 where I REALLY need to see what was going on with the various variable scopes during the request cycle, so I decided tonight to see if I could get FusionDebug 3 Beta up and running with Railo and Tomcat.
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I sometimes have to remind myself what a useful tool the debugger that’s built into ColdFusion 8 is. Today I was debugging a fairly involved process that I’ve been writing that uses several CFCs including on CFC that contains methods to apply all the business rules to the particular process. I had a couple of values that weren’t getting set just correctly so I fired up a debugging session and started to work through the process flow to determine where I was losing the value in question.
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A couple weeks ago I posted about moving our SVN repositories to a hosted solution at
Thanks to a late afternoon winter storm yesterday, I am spending the weekend in Chantilly, VA. I was due to go home yesterday (and really looking forward to it too!) but the storm cancelled most of the flights out of Dulles and I was told they couldn’t get me back to Nashville until Sunday. Since I had to be back up here Monday, it didn’t make sense to do that, so I’m just not going home this weekend.
