kdub's log

I recently gave a well received presentation about how to setup a great development environment on your workstation. Variations of this presentation were given at , BFusion 2008 (Bloomington, IN), (London, England), and the CFMeetup (online). As you can see I have been racking up the miles. Here is a description of the presentation:

Learn about how you can setup a local development environment that closely mimics your production system. In this session we will discuss how to setup a multiple instance install of ColdFusion with Apache virtual hosts along with a great combination of Eclipse plugins. Couple this setup with a test database powered by MySQL and a solid source code control system and you have a powerful development environment setup on your workstation. Finally, learn how to automate deployment with ant to make your setup consistence across all your team members' machines.

You can download the slides from the presentation or view the online recording from the CFMeetup Meetup.

Before the cf.Objective() 2008 conference in May, Team Mach-II offered two days of workshops that helped 40 developers to enhance their knowledge about object-oriented programming and to learn how to build enterprise-level applications in Mach-II.

Mach-II Workshops Have Been Redesigned and Improved

Sometime in February, 2009 we are planning on offering the new and improved Mach-II workshops either in the Baltimore, MD/Washington, D.C. area, Bloomington (IN), Minneapolis (MN), or Seattle (WA).

We are trying to determine which dates and locations people are most interested in. Please complete the Mach-II Workshops Survey to find out more about our workshops and to tell us what you think.

Your responses to this survey will help us determine the feasibility of offering these workshops sometime in February at one of the locations we've identified. If you complete our survey, we will send you a FREE Mach-II (Version 1.6) quick reference poster! We are really are going to send these out very soon. :)

As part of CFUnited I have a new version of AppBooster which uses Transfer available. You can use the download link below to get the latest version. I hope to write some more articles here in the future on some of the tips and techniques that I used in AppBooster.

AppBooster Beta 4