JohnBs personal blog

The Eclipse foundation has today released Eclipse 3.2, download it here. Don’t forget the new CFEclipse 1.3 release requires Eclipse 3.2.

If you want to find out what’s new in Fusebox 5 then head over to fusebox.org to find out more.

PodShow+ is getting ready for the ‘unleashing’ - set to revolutionise how folk interact with PodCasters and download them, as a regular listener of the DSC this is going to be well worth checking out!

One of the things I’m really enjoying using is Google’s Browser sync firefox extension. I work across a number of computers, at home and in the office - aside from maintaining my bookmarks in sync it keeps my browser history in sync, so a search that i carried out for ‘blog design’ on my work laptop shows the same results in Google as ‘read’ on my home computer - i love it! If you haven’t checked it out yet then its well worth checking out!

I thought I’d share my first Fusebox 5 custom verb with you, this mimmicks the behaviour of the cfthrow tag within your circuit.xml.cfm files. Grab it using the download link below.

No silly….I mean vanilla BlogCFC - just upgraded at long last to the latest version of BlogCFC v5 and gonna come up with a new style for 2006 - still running on the ever solid BlueDragon.NET, SQL Express 2005 all hosted on two GoDaddy virtual Win2k3 servers for $70 or so a month!!

One of the main reasons I’ve not been blogging all that much about Fusebox for over a year now is because quite simply, I’ve not been using it. Almost all my work has been building sites using our CMS of choice (iCM from Goss interactive) which provides a framework/API to building sites so there has been little need to use Fusebox or indeed any framework. But now I’ve got a growing pile of project specifications for Intranet applications which, despite needing to interface with the intranet can exist as their own entities.

So what’s the problem here? Bearing in mind we’ve got an existing Intranet running in it’s own CF application name with Fusebox4 an application would create a ‘fusebox’ structure in the application scope - all well and good if you’ve only got a single Fusebox application but as soon as you introduce a second Fusebox application then the second Fusebox application will overwrite the first Fusebox application in the application scope. Yes, it was something that could be fixed by ‘tweaking’ the cores but we decided to wait until the cores supported these environments out of the box.

Fusebox 5 now lets you run multiple FB applications without overwriting each other by setting a new variable in your index.cfm;

To confirm this behvaiour I used the Skeleton application (in a folder skeletonA) which just displays how long the application has been running. In the index.cfm supplied with the skeleton application I replaced

with the Fusebox_Application_Key line as above and removed the application.cfm from the folder as the application name was already being set from a parent Application.cfm. I then took a copy of the skeleton folder and named it skeletonB and changed the fusebox_application_key to AppB. So now, hitting either the /skeletonA or /skeletonB showed differing times for how long each application has been running for, and just to be double sure - a cfdump of the application scope shows the two applications living in application.AppA and application.AppB - woooohooo!

http://www.bertmonroy.com/ - enough said.

Once you’re accustomed to Intellisense/Tag Insight, whether it be in Visual Studio, Dreamweaver or Eclipse then when you use a product without it then you usually miss it. I’ve been building a series of Enterprise applications using massive numbers of Stored Procedures and tools like Query Analyser, Enterprise Manager and even Visual Studio have never included any intellisense.

A tool I stumbled across from Red-Gate offers just this. It sits down in the system tray and fires up after you press ctrl+space or after a . in a table/view/alias.

Oh, and the best thing - did i mention it was free?

If you’ve been on the hunt for a web based SQL Enterprise Manager then give this one a try - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vwg-ent-man - You’ll need .NET 2 installed but it’s an almost exact duplication of the SQL Enterprise MMC console except in a web app!

In fact, it looks like you can even admin MySQL, Oracle etc through it too!