cfsnippets.org Launches - New ColdFusion Community Site

I'm proud to announce the launch of my latest project, cfsnippets.org. The site is the first public SnipEx repository open to all snippet types for CFEclipse. If you're not familiar with Snippets in Eclipse, they're basically simple chunks of code - typically repetitive type tasks - that you can quickly and easily insert into your code by point/click or keyboard shortcut combinations. Jared Rypka-Hauer has already started a library on the site - check it out to get a feeling for how the site works. If you have snippets to add just register, verify your account and start adding snippets to the existing library or create your own. To use the SnipEx repository, click on 'SnipEx Server(s)' and copy the URL shown on that page and paste it into CFEclipse. For more on how to set that up see this post from Mark Drew.

As the site grows you may find there are a handfull of libraries that you use more then others. No problem, you'll be given the option to subscribe to individual libraries and customize your feed. A second URL will be presented to you (of course only when you're logged in) that contains only the libararies that you've subscribed to.

Currently you must manually delete your SnipEx cache in Eclipse to see new snippets as they're updated. Be sure to check the FAQ for a link that explains how to do this.

Note: Thanks to Jim Priest for reminding me that Raymond Camden also has a public SnipEx server. The main difference being that Ray's server strictly serves up the UDF's hosted at CFLib while this server is open to any snippet.

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