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.

If you’ve never heard of it, what EC2 allows you to do is bring up images of computers into a big network of processing power and bandwidth. It’s like you have a whole box under your control, but … there is no box. It’s like VMWare for servers. The billing for these instances is by the minute hour - around $0.10 for Linux and $0.12 for windows - so you can bring up test boxes only when you want them, or throw a bit of extra power at a problem.

Anyway, it all sounds fun, but where does one start? I decided to sit down last weekend and start figuring it out. My ultimate goal with this, by the way, is to bring up an EC2 instance, put Railo 3 on it, install FarCry, and then move my blog over to FarCry.

Here are a few movies about what I’ve found so far. These are just on how to bring up an EC2 instance, and I’ll be making some more as I progress.

(Since youtube wont let me upload a 12 minute video…)