cf.Objective() Day 1
Well day 1 is over and it was great!
I spent the entire day at the conference and I was able to hear some great presentations and mingle with some really knowledgeable and friendly people.
As I said yesterday, Kurt Wiersma's Local Dev Presentation was great. It showed me a few things about setting up multiple CF environments about which I was not previously aware.
I then went to John Paul Ashenfelter's Agile boot camp and it was incredible. I'm not sure I have ever crammed in that much learning in so little time. I am already sold on Agile Development, and I am definitely going to try to put some of the practices into my personal projects.
I finished the day with Mark Drew's Dreamweaver CFEclipse Reloaded presentation (those brits are a funny bunch). He showed a great many tips and tricks and advanced features of CFeclipse. If you are using CFEclipse, you should attend this session.
I am still trying to sort out my schedule for today. We'll see how that goes.
A productive couple of days, had I
Well, I have had a couple of very productive days at home. There has been A LOT that I have been wanting to do. Well finally, I just sat down and did a lot of it. In the last two days I have accomplished setting up my ultimate development environment.
Since Noon yesterday I have:
- Installed Apache 2.2 (A lot easier than I thought it would be)
- Configured Apache to work with ColdFusion 8 Dev and PHP5
- Set up a multi-site Drupal installation so that all of my Drupal sites run off of the same code base
- Installed and configured SVN Server
- Configured Apache to work with SVN
- Set up and loaded repositories for all of my projects
- Configured Eclipse with Subclipse to access my repositories
- Set up Virtual Host s in Apache so that each of my development sites can have a local domain
I have to say, most of these things were MUCH easier than I though they would be. All save for Subversion working with Apcahe. That was not easy, and I am still not sure I have it right. It seems to be working. But I did have a few issues with importing my files into the repos and with Subclipse freezing up. I'm not sure, but I think I may also have had an issue with a corrupt repo. Now all seems to be well.
Now I have the really hard part. I have to be consistent with my development processes and make sure that I am properly using all of my tools. I have also recently installed and configured Apache Ant with Eclipse. I have started watching Jim Priest's presentation on UGTV but I have, so far, only created very simle scripts. I still have a lot to learn about Ant, but it looks like it will help me to maintain good practices.
