Frank Fusion: ColdFusion, Oracle 11g, Ubuntu, etc.

CfStatic - embedding css images

2012-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

I have just tagged a minor release in CfStatic, taking it to 0.3.0. The release includes a tidy feature that allows you to embed CSS images directly in your CSS files...

Io and The Princess Bride

2012-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

I've been working my way through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks and loving it so far. This evening, on the train, I got a little stuck on one of the examples...

Blueprint style grids using LESS CSS

2011-10-02T00:00:00+01:00

I've started using LESS css at work (using CfStatic to compile the files) and slowly converting existing css to use LESS. We've been using the blueprint css framework for a grid layout and applying LESS css to the grid css for blueprint urged me to blog about it - its just so darn neat.

Another Sublime Plugin - CFQuickDocs Searcher

2011-09-24T00:00:00+01:00

Here's another Sublime Text 2 plugin. Once again, its a little rough but it does the job (on Ubuntu at least).

My First Sublime Text 2 Plugin - MXUnit Launcher

2011-09-20T00:00:00+01:00

I'm loving Sublime Text 2, a lightweight text editor that's a real joy to use. Now, I'm a CFEclipse user, and one thing I've missed with Sublime straight away was the ability to run unit tests from within the IDE (using the MXUnit Eclipse plugin).

So I decided to dive into a bit of Python (I'm sure my Python code is terrible) and write a quick and dirty plugin to enable you to launch the currently open file as an MXUnit test case in your browser. You can also set a TestSuite url that you can launch with a keystroke.

It's a start, only tested on Ubuntu, and it's on GitHub:

https://github.com/DominicWatson/SublimeText2MXUnitLauncher

CfStatic now supports compiling of LESS CSS

2011-09-16T00:00:00+01:00

If you've not heard of LESS CSS, head over to http://lesscss.org/ and fall to your knees in humble awe (and get all coder giddy).

Understanding the package minify mode in CfStatic

2011-09-15T00:00:00+01:00

Massive thanks to the folks at http://www.cfhour.com/ for featuring CfStatic on their podcast. Dead chuffed. One thing that came up was that the minify modes aren't documented clearly enough. This post hopes to address that and hopefully give some insight into one of the core ideas behind CfStatic.

CfStatic Framework Release

2011-09-13T00:00:00+01:00

I am very pleased and excited to announce the public beta release of CfStatic, a framework for the inclusion and packaging of CSS and JavaScript files for CFML applications.

CfSpreadsheet and the Yucky Colors

2011-09-12T00:00:00+01:00

Doing some spreadsheet work for accounting types who like pretty formatting and the right colors, I soon encountered a limitation with ColdFusion 9's built in spreadsheet functionality. Namely, the predefined list of colors available for various stylings...

Source code now on GitHub

2011-09-11T00:00:00+01:00

The trend for Jekyll blogs is to be versioned using GitHub, afterall, Jekyll was designed for GitHub. With that in mind, to help me learn git and to share my setup, I've created a repo for this blog:

https://github.com/DominicWatson/frankfusion