I know my recent posts have all been thanks for the donations to repair my laptop, but I got an email today from the guys at Integral, more commonly know as the developers of FusionDebug and FusionReactor.

They emailed me to let me know that they had got me a few items (very important ones if you develop Eclipse plugins) from my Amazon Wish-List, namely:

Eclipse Modeling Framework: EMF is about how to develop model driven plugins, which will (when I read it) allow us to do some crazy stuff with re-factoring and UML generation (when tied into GMF)

Head First Object-oriented Analysis and Design: Since I am developing some CF frameworks in my day to day life as well as doing CFEclipse, I thought I would brush up again on the fundamentals. I have the Head First Design Patterns book and that is amazing. This book was recommended by Peter Bell, a guy that does know his noodles!

The last book was: The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace: Now, I am fairly competent with Java, but the GUI stuff is just infuriating. No, really. I NEEDED this book to do any of the interfaces. Eclipse has some handy classes and shortcuts for this but if you want anything out of the box, I am usually left stranded and googling. This will hopefully bring some nicer looks to CFEclipse in the coming year.

THANK YOU GUYS!

I really should mention (I am sure I was going to do a blog post about this a while back, probably got side tracked) that FusionReactor has saved my bacon a number of times over the last few months and has recently been nominated for a CFDJ Most Innovative Application award, and richly deserved too!

Also, if you haven't heard about it (where have you been???) FusionDebug is the must have plugin for Eclipse (even if you don't use CFEclipse*) and has also been nominated by CFDJ as Best Web Development Tool. I know this sounds like advertising but really, get these tools, I cannot recommend them enough as part of your toolkit. If you are running any sort of CF server you will thank me (well, thank them really!)

A quick update, FusionDebug 1.5 is coming in January, you can sign up for the beta over at the FusionDebug website!

*What do you mean you dont use CFEclipse? You want me to come round there and set it up for you PERSONALLY? sheesh! Should I code it for you too? :)