Sep 14 2007

After a long time... Back on the scene!

Posted by Mark Drew at 2:30 AM
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- Categories: cfeclipse | max | coldspring | CFConferences | directing

Hello, yes, I am back, from outer space, well, not exactly. I have taken a month or so away from development of CFEclipse and my other projects (including this blog!) which has been great. Of course one of the reasons for this has been that I have been very busy at work, and that kind of takes it out of you. This is normal for me, but the work has been rather oppressive rather than creative so my brain needed a bit of space. Some news: I shall be speaking at Adobe MAX in Barcelona in October! I am very excited about this as I shall be demonstrating not only CFEclipse but the ColdFusion Extensions for CF8 (something I love using by the way) as well as hopefully the debugging capabilities that you now have with CF8. With regards to CFEclipse, I am currently taking a bit of a hard look at features and fixes that will make it into the next version. I am working on a complete re-design of the interface, basically following the rule of making actions available (no more hidden menus etc) so that access stuff easier. Apart from that, I am looking at re-compiling and coding the plugin so its compatible with Java 1.4.x since, even though I much prefer Java 5, it seems that is the most common error that people are getting (by looking at the Trac bugs!) On a final side-note: I have started a course each week in Film Directing! I did my first class last night and its absolutely awesome! We read a number of screenplays (Thelma and Louise and Brazil being the main ones) and dissected them to get a feel for the responsibility of a Director with regards to examining and expanding on the ideas within a script. Don't worry tho, Hollywood is still safe (after all, I only have done one class so far!) Well, that is it for the moment, I hear there has been lots of exciting news in the community whilst I have been away (I havent been reading blogs or news) but I just like to state that I took this vacation away from development without consulting the ColdFusion Weekly guys, it seems they have started up again after the summer!

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Christoph Schmitz

Christoph Schmitz wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

Hi Mark,

glad to see you're back. :-) Everyone needs a vacation now and then, even if it is just taking time off his projects.

Hope you remember my invitation to present to the German CFUG... it still is valid. ;-)

As for Java 1.4: I remember I gave up on the latest CFEClipse version and Eclispe 3.3 a number of times, because I just couldn't get it to work. Until I found that I had to specify the correct JRE in eclipse.ini as startup parameter. So I can understand if people are having issues with this...
VitC

VitC wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

Hey! You deserve time off - even though it was not exactly "time off". We all appreciate everything you do for us!!! Thanks for everything!
Mark Drew

Mark Drew wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

I think this might be something to put on the website, which reminds me, I need to give that website (and a number of websites I am working on!!) some love!

With regards to the German CFUG, there might be something in the works... I shall keep you posted. The problem is that I am doing a director's course every thursday, so its a bit of a squeeze!
Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

Welcome back mate !
Glad the time-out was good for you.

I'm surprised people are running into problems with Java 1.4.x - isn't this basically an old crappy version that isn't really supported any more (by Sun) ?
Installing a newer JVM would be the correct fix - in parallel is easy to do if the user has some sort if older stuff that needs 1.4.x
Mark Drew

Mark Drew wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

It is indeed, but of course, I am supposed to support that too... ho hum
Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

@Mark: "I am supposed to support that too"
Could we couldn't write some docs for how to upgrade or parellel install a newer JVM, and then just say CFE requires JRE >=1.5 ? After all CFE doesn't support Eclipse 1.x or 2.x (does it ?!?).
Christoph Schmitz

Christoph Schmitz wrote on 09/22/08 11:13 AM

@Mark: I read about our director's course.. you seem to have many talents. :-)

Guess who started that thing in the works your're talking about. ;-) But, let's take this off-blog. How about we talk about this over a beer in Barcelona?

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