ColdExt Wiki and Getting Started Tutorial

Posted At : March 27, 2008 9:13 AM | Posted By : Justin Carter
Related Categories: ColdExt,Ext,ColdFusion

Having a bunch of custom tags and an XML dictionary for CFEclipse is one thing, but knowing how to use them is another! So last night I began working on every developer's favourite task... documentation :P

The ColdExt Wiki is now enabled on RIAForge and I have started out with baby steps by writing a Getting Started Tutorial which covers the absolute basic requirements of getting up and running with ColdExt.

I have a number of pages and tutorials planned for the wiki (some of which I have already made notes of on the wiki home page) and will get around to adding them as soon as I can. If anyone would like to help out with documentation (rofl!) or start a discussion about what documentation is needed the ColdExt Forums could be a good place to do it. I am open to suggestions!

The next release of ColdExt will very much be about better documentation and demos, in addition to more tags and enhancements of course :)


P.S. Does anybody know if it's possible to turn off WikiTerms on RIAForge? At the least I think a special token like __NOTERMS__ would be very useful.

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Justin, please hit me up via email to discuss the Ext license for ColdExt.

Thanks
# Posted By Rey Bango | 3/27/08 1:04 PM
Just an update: the Ext licensing info has been added to the downloadable package on RIAForge.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/28/08 12:01 AM
Justin - one thing that might help some other folks is to turn off CF Debugging when running the Ext ajax stuff. I couldn't figure out why i couldn't get the demos to populate like the ones you have here.
# Posted By Steve E | 3/31/08 6:55 PM
@Steve: That's a good point, thanks for posting here publicly. I got the same feedback from someone else as well, so I have added cfsetting to the top of those files to turn off debugging output when sending back Ajax responses (I haven't commited it to SVN just yet though).

I'll make a note on the Wiki to remind folks to be aware of debug output issues when developing with Ajax.
# Posted By Justin Carter | 3/31/08 7:02 PM
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