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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.

BlogCFC Redesign

As part of my 2009 task list and to improve my knowledge in web design I have planned to change my blog look and feel. So I played with the BlogCFC code and want to say that it's really easy to change the entire theme and implement a new look and feel for your blog. All the credits go to ColdFusion Jedi for his brilliant BlogCFC project to CF community. I used styleshout template for the theme and modified the design according to my interest. Let me know what you think about this new design and thanks for stopping here to read my post.

Google Chrome Is My Default Browser

Google Chrome is very fast indeed when loading the GMail, Reader, Notes, Docs, iGoogle, Calendar and other Google products and other web sites also loaded very faster than other browsers. Installation is very easy and I have asked to close my Firefox so that Chrome can import bookmarks and other stuffs form Firefox. Here is the list of features I have impressed more with Google Chrome.

Application Shortcut feature is great and you can create shortcuts in desktop, quick launch bar and Start menu for your favorite sites.



Using Google Custom Search Engine for Websites and Blogs

Setting up the Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE) for our websites and blogs is extremely simple and straight forward. We can host the Google search results on our websites or blogs in two ways as:

1. IFrame - Need two pages one for Search another for Search Results.
2. Modal Overlay - Need only one page to present the result in modal Overlay.

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