Hello ColdFusion

Today I have been working on the ColdFusion training material. The training actually started yesterday however today was a better day to update the blog as yesterday was generally taken up by some teething problems.

The problems I had were due to the initial setup and as follows:

• Although it installed ok there was a database function omitted from the setup which required a re install to fix (RDS functionality)
• CF required a plug in for the Eclipse IDE, the downloads from CFEclipse were temporarily unavailable but was resolved.
• Adobe training material was written for Dreamweaver not CFEclipse
• As a result of the above alot of time was spent learning about CFEclipse and figuring out the parallels between that and Dreamweaver.

These problems were resolved or workarounds were developed by this morning. You may ask why I used CFEclipse and not dreamweaver as recommended? The reason being that I had been learning Eclipse with OO software development, its an industry standard IDE and it used by the developers here in Development services.

Now at close of business I have covered a third of the ColdFusion training and enjoyed all of it so far, the CF package does seem to make web development less time consuming as it can dynamically write HTML and JavaScript, similar to the Agile development module in the first year of my degree, only without the Model View Controller architecture.

Tomorrow I will continue with the rest of the CF training and I expect this will probably take up the remainder of the week for me .