Andy Jarrett

Happy new year to everyone

Thanks to all the people that follow mytweets and blog posts. 2010 hasn't been the greatest of years for me personally but here is to 2011 being a lot better! (with more posts)

Posted: 31-Dec-2010

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CFTextMate new home

CFTextMate has a new temp home at cftextmate.andyjarrett.co.uk.

How come?

I am a massive TextMate fan on the Mac and and one of its strengths is in its extensibility and bundles. CFTextMate has always been a great add-on for working with CFML files but fell short when editing the new scripted components. Luckily Russ Johnson had figured out how to edit the main bundle and get some basic highlighting working. From here I wanted to take it a step further and update the bundle which is when I started down this path.

So where am I:

  1. Due to domain rights and some limbo weirdness I don't have access to cftextmate.(org|com) so cannot tell people about these updates there.
  2. I don't think I have been approved yet on the Google Groups so I cannot post there.
  3. I did speak to Rob Rohan who was last pushing out updates and I have forked his code and already made the initial adjustments that I wanted to do at https://github.com/andyj/CFTextMate
  4. I have created a site at http://cftextmate.andyjarrett.co.uk/ which I am hoping Google will pick up soon.
  5. I have set up a Twitter account at @cftextmate for updates
  6. I have created a Uservoice account at cftextmate.uservoice.com for suggestions (please go there and start adding bits)

The bundles have been updated so with some changes so you can download and check them out here.

So what now?

Though I am going to do my best to update the bundles this is still my first foray in to this kind of development so if anyone else wants to actively help the grab the code from Github, give it go, and send me a PULL request!. I am also looking at a complete re-rewrite from the ground up so I can split out CFML tags and CFML script for better management. Though at the moment I don't know whether that is the right direction to go? Generally there is still a lot of work to be done and depending on which route the project goes down will depend when the next update is out. For now at least it has a home and a way for the community to follow the project.

Posted: 29-Nov-2010

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Framework One and .cfm requests

If you have used FW/1 you'll probably know that it takes over all .cfm requests. So for example if you add the file "rss.cfm" to your web root before the template is called FW/1 will run and the .cfm template will never actually be processed.

Posted: 03-Aug-2010

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Pet Rescue SOS, a new site in the works

Pet Rescue SOS is a site I've had a hand in putting it together, put simply, is the place where you can register your pets, have them assigned a unique tag and identity number which can used to identify and locate your pet anywhere in the world. This service is available online 24hrs a day and you have access to your own registration section from where you can manage your account and pets.

Below for anyone interested is some of the tech specs:

Posted: 23-Jan-2010

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