Category: Tools


Enabling iMovie 09 access to network drives

Filed Under: Geek World, Mac, Tools
Sep.06, 2010

I just got my nice little iOmega StorCenter and been working with it for the past few days.  I got the 1TB Raid 1 edition to see how long it will last me now that baby Alexia is on its way.

Anyways, I wanted to configure iMovie to see the movies in the NAS storage.  After much googling, I found something that worked.  Just fire up a terminal and type away:

defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true

Also, remember that iMovie,iDVD searches the root of the volumes for the following directories:

  • iDVD Projects
  • iMovie Projects
  • iMovie Events

So I recommend either putting those directories on the root or creating symbolic links to them.

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Enterprise Architect ColdFusion Generation Templates Released

Filed Under: ColdFusion, Software Development, Tools, git
Aug.31, 2010

I have used Sparx System Enterprise Architect for almost 4 years now and absolutely love working with it for UML design and also for ColdFusion code stub generation.  The only problem with EA is that it has to run on windows, sorry but I hate windows, but anyways.  I am finally opening my templates to the world so I can get more collaboration on them.  I took a project from Mike Ranklin I believe and updated lots of the source to make it work with ColdFusion 9 script syntax and also ORM entities. 

It is really great to have a great UML model and stub out our ORM entities out of it.  So if you are interested, the project is here and help out.

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Get your Pomodoro Focus on!

Filed Under: Software Development, Tools
Aug.12, 2010

If you are like me and have a thousand millions things to work on and lack focus.  This little app will help you out.  Its called Focus Booster: http://www.focusboosterapp.com/

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It is a very simple focus timer that sits on your desktop and helps you do Pomodoro times.  If you are not aware of the Pomodoro Technique, it is a technique to help you focus on tasks.

 

The Pomodoro Technique™ is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

They offer their book free in PDF format or you can order their full Pomodoro Kit.  I recommend you guys take a look at it.

The basic unit of work in the Pomodoro Technique™ can be split in five simple steps:

  1. Choose a task to be accomplished
  2. Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomodoro is the timer)
  3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings, then put a check on your sheet of paper
  4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
  5. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break
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Need an eclipse ftp synchronizer, help!

Filed Under: Eclipse, Software Development, Tools
May.21, 2010

I just wanted to open a topic of discussion to see what are your recommendations for an FTP synchronization plugin for Eclipse.  I know Aptana has one and CFBuilder also, which is pretty sweet.  However, what if you don’t want any of those two IDEs for some reason.  What would you use?  Comments? Suggestions?  By the way, I use CFBuilder and it is fantastic.

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A good MySQL GUI For Mac? Any ideas?

Filed Under: MySQL, Tools
Jan.10, 2009

I am sick and tired of MySQL Query crashing on me every 10 minutes. What other Mac software would you recommend for dealing with MySQL. I really like MySQL Query’s simplicity, but I just hate its instability. What do you recommend?

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What Mac OS X SVN Tool do you like best?

Filed Under: SVN, Tools
Nov.04, 2008

I usually just use the Eclipse SVN integration using subeclipse and I love it. However, I think it is time to install a native OS SVN tool on my Mac. However, I wanted to find out what is the community’s favorite tool for this task.

So, what is your favorite SVN tool for Mac OS X and why?

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Eclipse Resource Bundles Editor: Great For ColdBox Internationalization.

Filed Under: ColdBox, ColdFusion, Eclipse, Tools
Mar.17, 2008

Ernst Van der Linden pointed me out to a great eclipse plugin to use when using ColdBox’s Internationalization features. This plugin is the Eclipse Resource Bundles Plugin

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This is an incredible plugin that will help you work with multi-language resource bundles right from within eclipse. I Include the Attessor tool with ColdBox to facilitiate the usage of resource bundles, but this tool takes the cake.

  • It shows the property keys as a list or as a tree
  • It shows all the available locales at the same time
  • You can easily see multi-language translations at one time
  • Change languages with ease
  • New Language wizard that will blow your mind
  • If founds missed keys in any locale and displays a warning icon.
  • It saves the keys grouped, in alphabetical order and with the equal signs aligned.
  • It escapes Unicode characters that are not inside the ASCII subset. Example: C\u00F3digo postal for Código postal.
  • It founds duplicate property values.
  • Much More…
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What Poll or Survey software or service to use? What is your opinion?

Filed Under: ColdBox, Tools
Mar.02, 2008

I have been tinkering with the idea of setting up several polls or surveys in order to better get an opinion of the coldbox community. However, I wanted to ask the community what polling software or services they believe are good. I would prefer a solution where I wouldn’t have to host it, but more of a service that can generate the HTML for me, sort of like: http://www.questionpro.com/poll-software.html. Or maybe a survey solution would work also.

Anyways, I guess the less maintenance I have, the better. What are your thoughts? What would you recommend as far as polling or surveys goes?

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Database Comparison Tools?? Any recommendations?

Filed Under: Databases, Tools
Aug.07, 2007

I have been dealing with some problems trying to compare three tiers of databases at work and have not done that much research on database comparison tools. Has anybody used some and can recommend some? If they are free then even better. Any suggestions??

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CFCUnit Documentation hosted in my site for your needs.

Filed Under: ColdFusion, Tools
Jun.20, 2007

I have been using more and more cfcUnit and find it really essential now. So I have uploaded the documentation to my site for easy reference that anybody can get access to.

Just point your browser to: http://www.luismajano.com/cfcunit/documentation and you can read to your eyes content.

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