CF_BlogPicks January 14, 2008

I found several discussions on the same topic this week. So, this time I am grouping some blog entries by topic. The top link is what I would consider the main primary entry on the topic, followed by a few picks on that topic.

Here are the blog picks themselves:

• ColdFusion IDE Survey (Jason Delmore, January 7)
• Common ColdFusion Arguments (Sean Corfield, January 11)
• Interacting with MS Excel (Charlie Arehart, January 12)
• Selecting Top X From Each Group (Ben Nadel, January 7)
• Checkbox Range Selection (a la GMail) (Barney Boisvert, January 8)
• Ask a Jedi: Development versus Staging servers (Ray Camden, January 8)

Here are some of those blogs with a selection of related entries:

ColdFusion IDE Survey

ColdFusion product manager Jason Delmore puts out a survey on what developers what for an IDE, which sparks a lot of discussion in the community.

• Adobe ColdFusion IDE Survey (Damon Cooper, January 7)
• Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey (CF-Talk, January 7)
• They're All Just Text Files (Adobe ColdFusion IDE Survey) (Ben Nadel, January 7)
• Some (unfinished) thougts on IDE's for ColdFusion (Trond Ulseth, January 9)
• The Great Coldfusion IDE Debate (Mark Kruger, January 9)
• The Ultimate ColdFusion IDE (Steve Brownlee, January 14)

Common ColdFusion Arguments

Sean Corfield responds to arguments about what Adobe should do to make ColdFusion more popular. He in turn gets several responses (currently more than 50 commments and at least one blog entry)

• A response to "Common ColdFusion Arguments" (James Marshall, January 11)

Interacting with MS Excel

Charlie Arehart puts together links to several resources for interacting with MS Excel (and MS Office in general) just as Mark Mazelin blogs about querying Excel.

• Querying Excel files in ColdFusion (Mark Mazelin, January 10)
• Querying Excel files in ColdFusion Part II (Mark Mazelin, January 10)