Category: development

Feb 10 2010

Visualization of CFEclipse's development history

I have created a video using code_swarm to show the history of CFEclipse's development history, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! I am using this for other projects as a beautiful as well as useful way to see how a project progresses over time:

Edit: Since we moved CFEclipse from tigris.org back in 2006 I missed out the main people that worked on the Project such as Rob Rohan, Spike Milligan and Oliver Tupman (to mention a few!).

Part 1 (pre SVN with the initial commits etc!)

View Part 2 on youtube

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 5:05 PM - Categories: cfeclipse | metrics | development | codeswarm | cfml

Oct 15 2009

Testing sent emails during development

There are many times when I get to the part of developing on my local machine that I want a smtp server to use. I have tried postfix and some other unix type applications on OS X for this but none of them were quite what I wanted, since I want to also integrate tests with it.

And to be honest, it took me too much time (that I don't have as you have noticed by the lack of blog posts) to figure out all the settings to do this.

Until I found fakemail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakemail/).

Fakemail is a python (or perl) script that you can run to simulate an SMTP server, but more importantly you can define where the emails that are sent out go.

It is very easy to install (check out this page: http://www.lastcraft.com/fakemail.php) and run, and does the trick splendidly.

4 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 9:42 PM - Categories: development

Jun 25 2008

Eclipse Ganymede: Colaborative development with Cola

With the imminent release of the next version of Eclipse called 'Ganymede', I thought I would have a look at some of the upcoming features. The first feature that caught my eye was "Cola", which provides Real-Time shared editing of a file. I have seen this before but not done in such a nice way. Check out the video below: