Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

During the CFUnited 2008 Conference in DC, most speakers were able to record their presentations onto Adobe Connect. This is a great feature for most presentation styles (of course not all, since you might want to have a discussion, rather than a presentation), rather than just filming the speaker. Here are the Adobe Connect presentations that have been posted so far:

• CFEclipse reloaded: http://partners.adobe.acrobat.com/p69604765/
• Coldspring: Better living through configuration http://partners.adobe.acrobat.com/p37989763/

You can see the other presentations posted here and here Let me know what you think!

If you are planning to come to my CFEclipse:Reloaded presentation at CFUnited on Saturday morning, I have good news for you, I have moved it to the afternoon, basically swapped it with Sandy Clark. This means that you can get a lie in in the morning! So to re-iterate, I shall be presenting at 4pm in room 152B on Saturday, rather than 9:45 am. (Before that I shall be presenting ColdSpring: better living through configuration in the same room from 2:45)

Its going round, like a bad cold, so I thought I would also chip in with my CFUnited 2008 meme! What are you looking forward to most? Meeting up with people from the community and hanging out in DC! Which speaker will most likely end up on your camera? Probably Peter Bell, that guy can write and talk like there is no tomorrow! What do you plan to do outside conference time? Well, I am looking for a tattoo place to get some stuff added to my arm, and then it will probably be a bar where the rock is loud and the beer is cold. Any suggestions from locals? I might also head up to Rockville to check out a record shop that Henry Rollins used to frequent. Fill in the blank: I will mainly be around the ______ booth. "Beer" Do you have a new project you are working on and will reveal it at CFUnited? Yes, its part of my FreshAir presentation!

Next week, CFUnited DC gets on the way, and what a busy conference it will be! Having checked my schedule it looks like it will be a real marathon for me. Here is my schedule: Wed 1:30 - 2:30 : ColdSpring: Better living through configuration Wed 8:30pm - 9:30pm : Improving quality through code reviews and mentoring Thurs 9:30 - 10:30: Fresh Air: Getting to grips with Aptana and AIR applications Fri 9:45-10:45: CFEclipse Reloaded Fri 11:00 - 12:00: Jing Demo (5 mins) Fri 11:00 - 12:00: Railo Demo (10 mins) Sat 9:45-10:45: CFEclipse Reloaded Sat 2:45-3:45: ColdSpring: Better living through configuration You might ask what the Jing and Railo Demo's are about, well, you are just going to have to turn up and find out! :) Hope to see you all there!

I have put up my CFEclipse Reloaded presentation online for your viewing pleasure under my Presentations. It includes a lot of information on how to edit your frameworks explorer as well as how to fix the language dictionaries if you find errors. You can check it out there as well as my other presentations or you can download it directly

Its time again for the fantastic cfObjective in Minneapolis! I am heading off tomorrow morning and should be in town by mid afternoon (all going well) If you want to follow the adventures of people at the conference check out the following link http://twitter.com/cfobjective/with_friends See you all there!

I have been having a bit of a play with Eclipse's DLTK and Aptana to build two versions of CFEclipse, or rather a CFML editor. They are not complete yet (in fact, the editor doesn't work yet in either). And I thought I would put them up for people to see what I have done, contribute, play etc. No, there will be no downloads as yet, its just source, so you have to build and debug it yourself, besides, apart from being plugins there isnt really a workable editor there yet. The part that is really missing from both is me hooking up the CFML parser. The SVN locations are: Aptana based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/com.aptana.ide.editor.cfml/ DLTK based CFML Editor: http://svn.cfeclipse.org/experimental/org.cfeclipse.dltk.cfml/ They both have readme.txt files that say which tutorial I have followed, but as I said, I havent finished them After some investigation, I have also found that both the Aptana and DLTK can both use ANTLR based parsers, which I presume will be for most editors. Mark Mandel did a lot of work on using Antlr to create a language parser and tokenizer which I havent had a good proper play with as yet. But it has been checked in and people can have a play. There is no documentation as yet, but will work on some of that at a later stage. http://svn.cfeclipse.org/org.cfeclipse.cfml.core/trunk/ I havent integrated it yet into either of the projects as yet, but that will my next step.

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Jim Priest over the last few weeks, http://www.cfeclipse.org has been given a thorough making over! Jim will be helping the project as the webmaster for the site and has been doing a sterling job in keeping the Trac/Wiki updated for a long while now, so many thanks need to go to his contribution to the project What do you think of the new site?

I was interviewed this week by Paul Vernon just before CFUnited Europe that starts this week here in London. If you fancy reading the article, click on over to http://www.fusionauthority.com/community/4735-an-interview-with-mark-drew-speaker-at-cfunited-europe.htm

Tom Chiverton just sent me a link to a great article on Adobe.com Check it out at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/eclipse_extensions.html