FTP client

I am quite often asked to recommend a good, easy to use FTP client...so here is the answer (in my opinion of course!)

Filezilla has served me well both personally and profesionally for a number of years now...oh...and did I mention that its free? when I say "free", I mean it really is free..no ads, 30 day trial or spyware etc, just a fast, easy to use and reliable FTP client...cant get better than that can it?

Filezilla can be downloaded from the sourceforge site by following this link...enjoy!

1 comments - Posted by mark at 2:09 PM - Categories: Tools

URLKit

add bookmarking and enable the browser back and forward buttons in flex...am sure loads of people will find this usefull!

read more: joeberkovitz.com/blog/urlkit/

0 comments - Posted by mark at 9:09 AM - Categories: Flex | Tools

acme, or my chosen development environment

Well I promised I would start posting so here we go, a brief run down on my chosen set up for my development machine and the reasons why.

I am using the "ACME" set up, as you could probably guess from the title of this post. Written by Stephen Collins from acid lab, "The ACME Guide is a comprehensive guide to building a development workstation using Apache, ColdFusion MX 7, MySQL and Eclipse".

So why not use dreamweaver instead of eclipse?...well, i used dreamweaver for many years in web design until i realised that i didn't really need pretty much all of its features. The main thing i like is its code colouring...but for the cost of dreamweaver as an application, that's pretty expensive coloured code!, I've never found dreamweavers ftp client to be any good so that's another possible reason to use it knocked on the head, I don't need any of its design view features..you test in browsers right? so for me, a free piece of software I could configure myself made perfect sense.

So...the rest of it?...well, I have been sneaking around coldfusion for a good few months now so i needed to run that...apache and mysql, I've pretty much used exclusively for server and database so that made sense too.

Overall this development environment fits me like a glove, but it wont be right for everyone, for instance a couple of areas in the set up were mind boggling particularly trying to connect coldfusion to mysql 5 which was a bit of a run around but i got there in the end! Some of the plugin's for eclipse can be a bit fiddly too, wanting one plug in often means finding others which are required to run it, but hey...this is free software, don't suppose I should expect a dreamweaver type "hold your hand" approach! I think I'm probably savvy enough now to choose my own development environment and for me...this works!

Oh..and did i mention that Flex can be installed directly into the eclipse installation?...that'll be a story for another day once i've done something in anger with it!

0 comments - Posted by mark at 9:00 AM - Categories: Coldfusion | Tools