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Adding Highslide JS to BlogCFC

This post is to show how simply we can add Highslide JS to your blogCFC blog in a 4 simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image, media and gallery viewer library and its free only for Non-commercial use more details are at Highslide site read it before you start using in your blog. Highslide will be very useful in placing full size images at your blog without worrying about your blog layout size or width. Here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC blog.

ColdFusion Builder: New CFM and CFC File Settings

ColdFusion Builder provides a new option for us to set default contents in our newly created CFM and CFC files. Like code snippets this features will be helpful to place some standard code that we normally used in the CFM files like comment code block or HTML code blocks.

Preview of Adobe BrowserLab available at Adobe Labs

Adobe BrowserLab a hosted service from Adobe hits Labs today which helps developers and designers for performing cross-browser testing of their web pages and sites.

Adobe BrowerLab: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/
BrowserLab Extension for Dreamweaver CS4: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/browserlab.html

Creating Windows in HTML and JavaScript AIR Applications

Adobe AIR is such a great technology from Adobe for developers who wish to use their existing web development knowledge to create Desktop application. If you would like to learn more on using jQuery with AIR please do keep an eye on Andy Mathews and Jason Dean blogs.

In my previous post about AIR for Web Developers where I have explained about Installing AIR SDK and creating, testing and running your AIR Application using command prompt in Windows OS and for using Aptana with AIR follow this blog post by Andy Mathews. So now let's starts with a simple example of creating windows in AIR Application. Apart from the initial main window, we can also creates other windows in HTML based AIR application. We can create two types of window and they are called as standard HTML windows which look similar as windows in web browsers and Native windows which look similar to the windows of native Operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux).

Eclipse Plugins for ColdFusion

I have been using Eclipse for ColdFusion development both at my home and work with the CFEclipse plugin and I'm wondering what other developers in the ColdFusion community are using along with CFEclipse plugin for to make our daily job easy and more productive. These are the plugins I'm using along with CFEclipse so please share your plugins for ColdFusion development.

1. CFEclipse ‐ The core for the ColdFusion Development with Eclipse.

2. CF 8 Extensions for Eclipse ‐ This includes Interactive environment for debugging with ColdFusion server, RDS Data view, Log Viewer, ColdFusion Ajax and Flex Wizards.

3. Subclipse ‐ Plugin for Subversion version control system.

4. SnipEx Servers ‐ SnipEx servers are really helpful for to have a handy code snippets for development. I'm using the snippets of CFLib.org by Ray Camden and CFSnippets.org by Todd Sharp both these snippet are very useful.

5. Amateras ‐ Plugin for HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript with code completion, code outline and code validations. Contents assist for HTML and HTML code preview with source and preview tab feature in Eclipse IDE. Amateras also includes wizards for adding JavaScript libraries, HTML and XML files.

6. XmlBuddy ‐ Plugin for validating XML documents and XML Schemas.

Adobe Community Help Includes the ColdFusion Search Engine

Finally Adobe Community Help added ColdFusion to their search index which includes excellent selection of ColdFusion resources, tutorial and adobe documentation for ColdFusion.

Also you can use the OpenSearch plugins of Community Help which allows you to point to your favorite Adobe products at the built-in search field of your Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers.

To add your favorite ColdFusion resource sites or blogs or to tell any suggestion community help team please use this form http://community.adobe.com/help/feedback.html to reach them.

Adobe AIR For Web Developers

This is a quick guide for setting up the AIR SDK and running your HTML based AIR Desktop Application on windows operating system. This topic might be an old one for seasoned AIR developers but I hope this is useful for AIR beginners like me.

Download and Install Java JRE or JDK: AIR SDK requires either JRE or JDK to be installed on you computer. If you have JRE or JDK installed in your computer move to next step. You can download Java JRE at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html and the java JDK at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

Download and Install AIR SDK: Download AIR SDK at http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/ and choose the windows version. Extract the AIR SDK content to another location on your computer. I have extracted the content to "D:\Program Files\Adobe AIR\AIRSDK\". Note: Please do remember the location you've extracted the SDK.


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