The file upload has more uses than just blogging. For example, often times my IM file transfer fails when I want to send someone a screen shot, but now I can just drag, drop, command+v.

Here is a movie on how the file upload works and a quick demo:

Some other things that were fixed / added.

• Progress dialogs when posting / uploading
• Confirm that you want to post something that doesn’t look like a blog post (i.e. if you click “Post to blog” when looking at a java sorce file)
• The delete posting feature was removed - I am not going to implement that. Delete is a strong operation, and if you want to do that you can log into your site ;)

As ususal you can download all the Afae plugin’s on the Afae Page.

To get blogging to work in it’s minimal form, you need the afae_editor_blogger_nightly.zip plugin. That will give you the ability to post to your metaWeblog enabled blog and upload files.

If you’d like color coding for your posts you can download the afae_editor_nightly.zip. The editor plugin does color coding for blog posts and many other file types. Or, you can use your favorite Eclipse HTML editor by assigning it to the file type “.blog”.

If you’d like the snippet ability - the part where I type img and it becomes an image HTML tag - you can download afae_snippets_nightly.zip (If you use cfeclipse, as I am sure you know, you already have this ablity).

Lastly, this has been tested quite a bit on Mac OS X connecting to a WordPress blog only. While I think it should work with other configurations, I can’t say for sure. If you find it works on your setup, please let me know.

There are several different licenses for the plugins, but they are all either under the Apache, LGPL, MIT, or Eclipse. Check out the Wiki for more information.

Update: I tested this on Windows XP and the file upload portion does not work on Windows at present (because the file separator of “\” is breaking a regular expression).
Update: The file uploader works on Windows XP.

Update: I tested this on Linux and entry posting and file uploading works fine (Ubuntu).

One thing Mark noticed: when doing edits BlogCFC doesn’t auto paragraph your text, it works properly when adding an entry though. Mark seemed to think this was a bug in BlogCFC, but I don’t know for sure (both adds and edits work when using WordPress so I am inclined to think that is true).

I’ve been referring to it as the Afae editor with blogging, but that’s kind of misleading. The plugin works by itself (as can all the Afae plugins). You can post blogs and never install the Afae editor if you do not wish to. Just assign your favorite HTML editor to handle file types of .blog, and you’ll be all set. If you are into CFEclipse, Flex Builder, PHPEclipse, RadRails, or whatever you can use those built in editors for writing entries if you wish.

I also updated the Entry View to sort by date created by default so the display of past entries is no longer random, and the password field looks and acts like a password field.

You can download it on the Afae page. You just need the afae_editor_blogger_nightly.zip plugin to get the blogging capabilities, and you can install the afae_editor_nightly.zip if you’d like to have Afae color coding (again any HTML editor plugin will do).

If you’d like to mirror the CFEclipse builds you’ll need to download and install Java (which you should have), Ant (which you may already have), and Eclipse (which you really should already have if you’re using an Eclipse plugin). You might have to download the ftp ant task if you would like to upload the build automatically and java mail for auto emails.

Edit the file to your liking (it’s well commented though probably has spelling errors). Then run it using ant:

ant -f pluginbuild.xml -Dversionseed=051013

versionseed is appended to the end of the plugin folder to keep it unique. I actually use the command

ant -f pluginbuild.xml -Dversionseed=`date "+%y%m%d"`

which add the current date on Mac or Linux.

The ant script gets the latest from CVS, makes the eclipse plugin structure, compiles and jars the code, and then zips it all up. It can also ftp and email when done (if you have the proper ant tasks downloaded).

It also is a good example if you are new to ant and would like an example of some common tasks.

Let me know if this is even slightly interesting, and I’ll give a bit more detail on how to set it up as a cron job.

You can download it on the right side of the page. Search for “CFE NIGTHLY” and click the CFEclipse icon to download it. After download unzip it and copy the com.rohanclan.cfml_X.X.X000000 directory to your plugins folder.

Many thanks to Spike who was doing the original BER release by hand. The process can be rather intrusive and time consuming.

Not wanting to do that anymore, we set out to make an automated process to build Eclipse plugins. It’s down to a single Ant script which I’ll post in the next posting. If you’d like to mirror the BER releases, you can use that Ant script. Since it’s now automated, you can expect the nightly builds to be done… well… nightly.

Word of warning: since the build is really done nightly and the process gets the latest from CVS, the plugin has the potential of not working at all. While we try to keep the code in the repository in a compilable, runnable state, in reality it doesn’t always work out that way.

Fixes in the BER:
Issue 324: br nbsp adding extra space
Issue 325: ctrl+enter and ctrl+shift+space are reversed>
Issue 231: dictionary switcher (partial)
JaredsCFScript fixes (auto add {}[]””") and added actions for adding those
items.

100% of the profit from the CFEclipse shwag will go back into the CFEclipse project and to the developers. 10% of any Afae shwag or Afae license sales will also be going into the CFE project so load up.

Spike just happened to be in the Bay Area doing Flex training so naturally we caught the game - and the beers, and the hot dogs, and the peanuts… outside is just rad sometimes.

See, while no one gets paid for working on cfeclipse, you get karma going for you… which is nice.

Here are a few pictures of the game, The Giants actually won for a change (bad year for them it seems). They were playing the Astros.

One thing Spike brought up durring the game was most people don’t know how to say Afae. That is a pretty bad marketing move on my part. So if you care, I pronounce it Af-ee (like aft and rhymes with tea), the Mac pronounces it uh-fae (rhymes with day), and I think the proper Latin way is Af-eye.

Afae has 3 meanings (as most of my program names). One, it stands for “Another Fabulous All-purpose Editor” (change the F if you desire). Two it sounds like a 2 year old saying Giraffe. And three it’s (uncommon)
Latin for dust - the project is from the remains of what was going to be the CFML Workbench.

If you don’t know what I am talking about, check out the movie on the bottom right of this page called “Installing CFEclipse”.

If you are going from the current stable to trying this out there will be many changes, if you’ve been playing along with the unstable, the changes will be minimal (save for that huge font on the cfc methods viewer… doh!) - and remember the BEER build should be considered preview and unstable.

The videos have been dark for a while because I didn’t have a place or bandwidth to host them, but after I saw Rich posted his CFUnited video on YouTube (and I
saw it was free) I put them up there.

I went to put them on Google video, but you have to download a special uploader, it can take a day to get posted, download a special movie player, and the player is IE windows only… how stupid is that. Who is in charge of that? Can anyone say Flash player? Quick time player? Hello…

The YouTube site seems really cool. Easy, normal web upload. While I was uploading these, I got a message from one of the developers who pointed me to a howto create a link page - good service.

“It is about 100MB (about 7 minutes long) so best bet is to pause it and let it finish loading…”, Rich says.

Thanks to Rich for doing it. It was nice to see the video. It’s never too late to help out with the project if you fancy. Who knows what could happen next year. Simeon would love to hear from you if you think you can help with the project (code, document, help others, supply beer, can talk to girls, have a car, or have basic magic skills)

The CFML Workbench plan fizzled mostly due to lack of interest / time / motivation. I still have most of the original work (it was kind of my responsibility to build it), and I never really stopped working on it. The extra pieces are pretty stable - stable enough for day to day work anyway - so I am making it it’s own thing.

It’s called Afae (Another All-purpose Editor - you get to define the F). It supports many many file types including images (view only). It doesn’t do HTML and CFML you’ll have to find another plug-in for those. This was going to be the other part of the CFML Workbench if you will, and it does not include CFEclipse.

The concept is based on JEdit and uses some work done by Chris Grindstaff. This is not an open source project, but you can download the unrestricted public beta by using the Eclipse update and pointing it to http://www.robrohan.com/projects/afae. You’ll want to have Eclipse 3.1 as I just finished updating it to the latest API.

I still have a lot of features on my list I need to implement, but it’s a great base to add to your Eclipse tool box.

Have fun.