Just a reminder that when you install CFBuilder as a plugin either to Eclipse or Flex Builder or Flash Builder, you're installing CFBuilder to its own directory and inside the full install of Eclipse or Flex Builder or Flash Builder installation, there's a folder called 'dropins' and inside that, is a single file called "CFBuilder.link". If you need to re-install Eclipse or Flex Builder or Flash Builder, you don't need to re-install CFBuilder, you could just preserve that file and then drop it in place when you've got your new Eclipse / Whatever Builder re-installed.

So, if you're the type that likes to have the nightly build of Eclipse running at all times, you can, just copy/paste CFBuilder.link around and put it in the dropins folder and you're done. I believe the .link file is nothing more than a pointer to the real CFBuilder folder.

Just got cfbuilder at my job and co-worker was bitching about the lack of css / html color coding support. I forgot to mention that he has to do something special to get it all to work, so I thought I'd post the solution here.

Open up the preferences panel by going to:

Windows -> Preferences

Then nagivate to:

General -> Editors - File Assocations

'*.css' is actually missing from the list, so click the 'add' button and type: '*.css' and hit ok. Select '*.css' if it isn't already, the bottom window will change. Select 'CF Builder CSS Editor' in the bottom window and click the 'Default' button to the right of it. Do the same for '*.html' and '*.htm'. Again, make sure you select 'CF Builder' in the bottom window first before clicking the default button.

When you're done, hit the 'ok' button at the bottom. Save everything you're working on, close CFBuilder and re-open it. Color stylings for HTML and CSS files should now work.

If you already have CFBuilder, you're pretty much ready to go with AIR development. There's nothing extra that you need. Now, the default AIR SDK that ships with CFBuilder is AIR 1.5, but Andy Matthews pointed out that you can point CFBuilder at an AIR 2.0 SDK. Anyway, to create an AIR project in CFBuilder, just File->New->Project-> Type "AIR" and it will filter to "HTML Projects: Adobe AIR Project."

To update the SDK:
Download the AIR 2.0 SDK and unzip it. Move it to somewhere safe on your computer that you won't randomly delete it for no reason. Then, open CFBuilder, go to Windows -> Preference. Type in "AIR" for the filter text, then select "AIR SDKs" - Click on "Add" - Browse to the directory I just mentioned to keep safe and then type "AIR 2.0 SDK" as the name and hit ok. When you return to the original panel, you'll see "AIR 2.0 SDK" in the list and if you want to make that your default SDK, you should check the box next to it and hit apply.

So, why am I mentioning this? Because if you already have CFBuilder, then you already have Adobe AIR and it's potentially another thing you should be learning if you're not already learning it. After all, you knew that you can create HTML / Javascript AIR apps, right? Right?

Additional (useful) AIR links:

• http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/14365311/
• http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/13726129/
• http://www.andymatthews.net/category/AIR/
• http://www.12robots.com/index.cfm/AIR
• http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/AIR