Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Removing FlexBuilder from Eclipse

2006-08-24T12:39:48-05:00

Many of us have tried (or at least downloaded and installed) FlexBuilder, the trial version. For those of us who use Eclipse for other things besides Flex and never bothered to actually purchase FlexBuilder, we may find ourselves with a now expired plugin that tends to pop up now and then asking us to enter our serial number. No big deal really, only a minor annoyance. Except for today when I tried to open a CSS file.

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Cool Eclipse Plugin for CSS and JS

2006-08-24T12:28:00-05:00

Aptana is an Eclipse plugin that came to me highly recommended by a peer (Doug Sims) and has proven itself to be a real assett to me as well. What does it do? Only provide code assist with both Javascript and CSS files! Another VERY COOL thing it does within the code assist is provide visual indicators of which CSS and Javascript attributes are

When the Obvious is TOO Obvious: A lesson in Troubleshooting

2006-08-24T11:48:00-05:00

Look at the following code and guess what the output would be:

<cfset strObj = createobject('component','com.makestring').init() />
<cfset newstring = strObj.getString() />
<cfoutput>#newstring#</cfoutput>

Oh, here's the cfc...

<CFCOMPONENT>
<CFFUNCTION NAME="init" ACCE