If you are in Sydney, don’t miss Code wars tonight – which should be really fun.

I never really mentioned it either, but I’ll be talking about iPhone Web Application development, and I’ll be hanging out talking about iPhone native app development at a birds of a feather chat if you are into iPhone stuff.

I am not sure if WebDU is sold out yet, but you might be able to score a last minute ticket…

Own it today!

Min’s descriptions on these videos are the bees knees.

Register now – I highly doubt you’ll be sad you did.

WebDU Registration twitter.com/webdu

You most likely don’t want to miss it.

WebDU Registration twitter.com/webdu

The latest stable version of CFTextmate is 2.0. 2.0 was released before I started working on the project, so I am marking my stuff as 3.0 Beta. I still have a lot of things I want to add, but I’ve got most of my day to day needs taken care of in 3.0.

I was toying with some other names for the release, but I’ll just keep those to myself.

The major changes in 3.0, I think, are the inclusion of other CF engines and versions (Railo (which is awesome), BlueDragon, CF5, etc). Also thing like cffunction folding, function names in the symbol list, and cfscript colouring.

Here is a movie to show it off a bit.

You can download the plugin(s) on cftextmate.com. If you are into source code, you can get the code on github, or if you want to possibly have some input on the direction of CFTextmate you can join the mailing list.

(Thanks to Geoff from Daemon (where I work) for egging me on)

Oh, and go to WebDU for a special treat :)

To scratch my itch, I threw together a little process to create Textmate Bundles from CFEclipse dictionaries, and generated one for FarCry 5.1.

It works pretty well. Here is a movie of the FarCry Textmate bundle in action.

The thing about the generator is it can be used to move any CFEclipse dictionary to Textmate. I was going to do one for the base of Coldfusion 8, but, luckly, there is already a generic Coldfusion textmate plugin – and only noobs reinvent the wheel or just overlook the hard work of others eh?

However, if you need snippets for one of the older Coldfusion engines or for Railo or BlueDragon you can pretty easily tweak the code and move it to Textmate.

To download the FarCry Textmate plugin (which is beta) click-a here.

If you want to play with the code, or move your own cfe dictionary to textmate you can get the source code on github.

Textmate is Mac OS X only, but the E-editor is a Windows clone and it reads Textmate bundles out-of-the-box.

While getting to know my way around the new stuffs here at work, I hit a snag. I needed to edit a Coldfusion file using something other than CFEclipse – I use CFEclipse for 99% of the Coldfusion work I am doing, but every now and again it’s just easier to open a simple editor for a quick edit.

To my amazement gedit wouldn’t color code CFML files. Worse yet, the built in file browsing wouldn’t even show that CFML file existed because the stock Ubuntu install doesn’t have mime types for CFML files.

I did a quick bit of digging around, and couldn’t find a pre-made solution so I just slapped this one together. It seems to work fairly well. The syntax is from XML so it’s not fantastic, but it lets gedit open and list CFML files – it’s a start.

Here is a shot of it working.

You can download the files here. If you are using Ubuntu, it should simply be a matter of chmod u+x the install.sh file and then run it (use at your own risk and all that).

Perhaps when I get a bit of free time I’ll XSLT the CFEclipse dictionaries into the gedit syntax to get it looking a bit prettier, but for now it’s gotten me past my stuckness.

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: 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).