04 Jan 09 Ruby Line Formatting
I wrote a little utility to turn something like this
this=that, something_else="something else entirely"
Into the much easier to read
this = that, something_else = "something else entirely"
I use it in conjunction with my clipboard utility so I can just copy, run, paste. I mostly use this when I'm working with ColdFusion, so it also works for those pesky cfsets.
Usage: (After copying your target text to your clipboard)
ruby clipboard_format_set.rb
PS: I'd love to set some of my scripts up as Eclipse shortcuts so I've been toying with the idea of writing an Eclipse plug-in to act as a proxy. I realize you can set up and run "External Tools", but I have yet to see a way to bind a key. I'd like the plug-in to take care of the "pasting" to save me that extra ctrl-v. Maybe this would make a good New Years Project?
Tags: Add new tag, clipboard utility, coldfusion, eclipse, ruby, tools
07 Dec 08 Ganymede JSEclipse Alternatives
I've been having memory issues since setting up JSEclipse on eclipse. As I always, I tried googling around first but had a hard time finding any plugins that supported Ganymede.
Once again, stackoverflow came to my rescue by suggesting (free for commercial use) Spket and while I haven't used it extensively yet it's been working great so far!
Tags: eclipse, javascript
05 Dec 08 CFEclipse/Ganymede Line Number Problem
My tray line numbers weren't showing up in CFEclipse since upgrading to the Ganymede version of eclipse. My preferences were set correctly. I did a bit of googling but I didn't actually find the solution until a few links down, so I thought I'd share the link love!
1. In directory
[workspace]/.metadata/.plugins/.org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/
2. Edit (or create) a text file called
.org.cfeclipse.cfml.pref
3. Add the following line:
lineNumberRuler=true
4. Restart Eclipse
Tags: cfeclipse, coldfusion, eclipse
30 Nov 08 How to recover a deleted file in Eclipse
I don't know how (yet) and I can't recreate it, but I swear that Eclipse ate two of my files while in the CFEclipse perspective. Neither of which I had placed under version-control yet. (DOH!) I was able to recover one of them from a nightly back-up.
When trying to figure out exactly what the heck happened, I took a peek at the local history for my back-up file and Eclipse still had the record of my changes up to the moment I lost the file!
Sooooo I re-created my lost file, right-clicked "Compare With" and "Local History" and I was able to re-cover the latest version of my file!
Phew!
Tags: coldfusion, eclipse
18 Nov 08 Thoughts on Bolt
As anyone subscribing to MXNA has heard en masse today, the big news 'round the CF Circuit is the announcement of a ColdFusion "development tool" affectionately titled Bolt. (Although Adobe does has a habit of changing titles on us)
Here's what I'm on about.
1. Will it run on Linux?
This is a requirement for me. Since it's an "Eclipse based development tool" I assume it will, but I'd like to see it asserted. I don't mind paying a reasonable sum, but not if I have to wine or vm it.
2. Is it a plug-in or an IDE?
I hope by "development tool", they mean plug-in. At the time of this writing there are 1101 plug-ins listed on eclipseplugincentral.com and I'd like to be able to use any and all of them if I so choose. If I want to run Spket instead of JSEclipse, I don't want any grief about it. Also, I like having an agnostic editor. I want one IDE to rule them all. Chances are that if I have to keep eclipse around for my other languages then I'll probably going to just stick with it.
3. Bloat-i-ness?
I'm a little worried about Bolt being tacked onto eclipse along with a laundry list of exciting! new! features! that I won't use past the first week, but making for great upper-management selling points. I'm drowning in features as it is. This wouldn't be such a big deal except that I've noticed eclipse can be a memory hog. I know it's not an accurate measurement but it irritates me when I pop open the task manager on my windows box and see eclipse running well into the hundreds of megs, especially when e does most of what I want with a fraction of the memory and cpu usage.
All I really need out of an IDE is multi language and OS support, code-highlighting, snippets, RDS, auto-tabbing and intellisense. I signed up for the beta; if you can do this better than Eclipse, Adobe, I'm all yours.
Tags: bolt, coldfusion, eclipse
08 Sep 08 Eclipse RDS Problem: Contacting Server…
I've been successfully running CFEclipse on Ganymede for a week or two now, but I finally got around to just installing and setting up my ColdFusion 8 Eclipse Extensions (downloaded from the lovely coldfusionportal.org). Everything looked like it went well: "Test Connection" worked. But whenever I would double-click a folder in my RDS Fileview or Dataview I would get hung up on this "Contacting Server...".
It took a bit of googling, but I finally stumbled upon this post and I wanted to share the link love: http://www.vintagecoding.com/blog/2008/07/24/eclipse-rds-might-be-a-problem-with-ganymede/
Apparently if you click the arrow icon's in the RDS Fileview and RDS Dataview views it'll work. It's a workaround alright, but it works.
Tags: coldfusion, eclipse
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