The ACME Guide
Written by Stephen Collins and downloaded over 2000 times since March 2006, The ACME Guide (.pdf, ~7.5Mb) 3rd Edition is a valuable resource for ColdFusion developers of all levels. It provides detailed instructions on how to prepare a PC or Mac workstation for development using ColdFusion and several Open Source tools including the [...]
February 3, 2006
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I’m using the latest milestone release of the Eclipse IDE, and when I tried to install Flex 2 Beta 1 in plugin mode, the install to Eclipse fails, as it expects an Eclipse 3.1 build and the components that go with it. Judging by the error messages in the log, it seems it won’t [...]
December 1, 2005
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I’m setting up my ACME environment on my new Powerbook at the moment (in my copious spare time) and am very nearly there. It’s been quite the learning experience as I get my head around the new environment, refresh my *nix skills and discover the source of the best packages of all the ACME [...]
Details of the presentation I’ll be giving at WebDU 2006 – Reaching the Peak – developing on the ACME platform – are now available on the WebDU site. I’ve asked a couple of times before for information on what people want to see in this presentation and got nothing. So now I’m begging!
Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease [...]
I asked before… No response. So I’m asking again.
In my presentation at WebDU 2006, what would you like to see and hear related to ACME-platform development? I’ll make the presentation available here as slides and notes and Breeze (if I can).
November 23, 2005
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Predefined CVS comment templates in Eclipse in recent builds. I haven’t updated yet to a build with this feature included, as I’m waiting for the release of Eclipse 3.2, but it looks to be very useful.
I’m no Java coder, but I can’t imagine it’d be too much of a stretch to include the same [...]
Woohoo! I’ve been accepted to speak at WebDU 2006 (formerly MXDU), the Asia-Pacific’s leading web technology conference! I’ll be speaking on the topic Reaching the Peak -
developing on the ACME platform. The talk will offer guidance on best-practice development using the ACME (Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse/CFEclipse) platform.
The conference isn’t until the [...]
It’s funny-strange (and more than a little flattering) that someone I regard as highly as Ray Camden is recommending my work. It’s something I appreciate beyond my ability to explain. His work has rescued me so many times. Thanks again, Ray.
November 4, 2005
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My guide to using Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse/CFEclipse as a development environment, The ACME Guide Second Edition has now been downloaded 1000 times thanks to some recent mentions of it about the place; including in Polish and Italian!
Personally speaking, that’s pretty overwhelming. It seems that people are finding it useful, which was the [...]