My Dev Environment.
Over the last few years my development environment has evolved and changed as newer and better tools were released. I've had my current setup running for a few months now and I'm really pleased with how it's working.
ISO Creator
I found this neat and FREE ISO creator:
R.I.P. Homesite
With the release of CFEclipse 1.3 and a stable release of RDS support in Eclipse. I can now remove Homesite completely. To be fair it is a great IDE and has proved it's worth time and again. However, Macromedia no longer supports or develops Homesite and it's starting to show its age. I'm quite pleased with the recent release of CFEclipse and I highly recommend you check it out. You can download Eclipse RDS extensions by clicking here.
Javascript Debugging
I just found this really cool tool:
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/
It's called FireBug and it's an interactive debugger. It makes debugging javascript a snap!
Greeking.
I often find myself with the need to generate paragraphs of text for testing purposes. It's helpful to see how my code will handle paragraphs and long text. Are my fields long enough? Do I need to change from varchar to text? I could just set and pound on the keyboard randomly until I've reached the desired number of characters. That can be time consuming and I'm pretty lazy.
SOLUTION: This neat little web page that will generate test text for me:
