cfun is the national coldfusion and web programming conference that rockville, maryland-based it firm teratech (www.teratech.com) hosts each june in the dc area. cfun (www.cfconf.org/cfun-04/) stands for coldfusion user network, and based on my trip to cfun-04 there were plenty of people learning, networking, and having fun doing it!
cfun day zero and some helium
while the conference proper didnt start until june 26, i flew in a day early to catch up with some of the other speakers at the mmug manager meeting day and the speaker dinner. i spent a lot of the day talking to matt liotta about he3 - his companys new coldfusion editor, based on eclipse, that debuted in beta form at cfun. the cfun "party pack" contained the he3 beta on cd along with many other goodies. so what does he3 offer? a color-coding coldfusion editor with tag completion - a little rough round the edges but with great things promised - and built-in regex and xpath panels that let you build and test your regular expressions and xml queries in "real time" using arbitrary snippets of text and xml (highlighting matches as you type). he3 also recognizes mach ii applications and provides an intelligent xml editor for the mach-ii.xml configuration file, showing both a source view and a tabular view of each of the sections of the file, with the ability to add and delete entries using the table view - very useful for building out the skeleton of the application. i havent tested it yet but i understand he3 also supports fusebox 4 and has a similarly i... 下一页