I'm A CFEclipse committer!
CFEclipseSo, while I've been kind of a "sleeper" contributor to CFE, I have been ramping it up a bit lately and doing a little more than just keeping Mark Drew company and providing awkwardly humorous conversation. It's always wierd because you can't hear the person on the other end laughing with you...after years of messaging, I'm still self concious :-P
Anyway, more on the subject of this post, Mark Drew has decided that I'm finally worth the honor of having commit rights to the CFEclipse Subversion repository. Mainly this means two things to me:
- Mark Drew doesn't think I'm gonna blow it up (or that the odds are better that I won't)
- I feel like it means I have contributed some use be it in little bits to the project. I'm eager to see this contribution grow.
Anyway, whether you have been considering helping out with CFEclipse or not, I would like to reiterate how exciting it is to get to work with Mark even on the days I'm not able to do much more than discuss things with him. He has a way of making great things happen with CFE and making the entire process interesting and a lot of fun.
If you would be interested in experiencing the good and rewarding time that I've been getting, might I suggest contacting Mark to share your skills and see if there is something you'd like to do.
I'm not sure if this was an item everyone would be excited to hear about, but I'm very happy about it and I have noone nerdy to share this information with right now.
Thanks for putting up with me :-P
Mike Kelp
CFEclipse - Learning and Helping
CFEclipseRecently (end of May), I started helping out the CFEclipse project with some bug fixes and contributing to a few small improvements for the project. While I only came into the project in time to make an incredibly small contribution, I am planning to be as big a part as possible in the next release.
This brings me to my next point:
Learning
Mark Drew is, for lack of better words, a badass. I didn't realize when I initially offered to help that he has literally been the only full developer on the project for a while. The fact that he kept going says a lot about his passion for the project and his commitment to the ColdFusion community as a whole. I only hope I can contribute to CFEclipse even half as much as he has. I think it is important that we all realize this because in addition to all that Mark has done, he has put up with a lot, and kept his attitude quite well despite.
Helping
So anyway, while this blog is still new and not many will see this, I would like to remind those of you that can to contribute what you can to CFEclipse if you are using it. Get Mark something off his Amazon Wishlist or purchase some CFEclipse schwag.Or, if you are really committed and brushed up on your Java, come help out! I can say from experience that Mark went out of his way to make me feel good about helping out and we've even gotten quite a few laughs via Google Talk.
Anyway, for whoever reads, remember how well off a particular piece of software can make you (particularly in the open source community and that IDE you got for free) as well as how the people that gave you that product deserve all of our respect and appreciation.
Thanks for subscribing to this moral outburst.
Mike.
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