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h1. Know your Tools: Being More Productive in ColdFusion Builder / CFEclipse

*CFMeetup Link:* [http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/13102729/]

*Recording URL:* http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p29051465/


h2. Topics Covered

# Teach a man to fish: How to use Eclipse Help
## The Welcome Screen: a few things actually work (and are useful)
## Help contents \-\- familiarity with structure
## F1
# Mylyn
## Tasks
## Noise Reduction
## Context Switching
## Context Sharing (if time permits)
# Workbench Navigation
## Editor fun (especially useful for developing with more than 1 monitor)
## Customizing the toolbar
## Full Screen
### Ctrl-M
### Full-Screen Plugin (for Ctrl+M on 'roids \--\- gives you mega full screen with Ctrl-Alt-Z)
## Detached tabs
# Keyboard shortcuts
## Find links in the Eclipse help under "Workbench User Guide \-\- Concepts \-\- Accessibility features in Eclipse"
## Resource finding and creation
### Ctrl-N  (ctrl-N   ctrl-N  ctrl-N    Get your damn hands off the mouse. File \-\- New is killing you)
### Ctrl-Shift-R    \---  The best damn Eclipse shortcut, period
## Editor Navigation
### Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown
### Ctrl-E
### Ctrl-Q
## File Navigation And Manipulation
### Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Shift-K
### Ctrl-L
### Ctrl-Shift-N (CFEclipse Only)
### text insertion shortcuts
## Showing Views
### Alt-Shift-Q, Q
### Ctrl-3
### Customize\!
## Mylyn tasks
### Ctrl-F9 to find and activate tasks
### Ctrl-Shift-F9 to deactivate the current task
## Customizing Keys
### Window \-\- preferences \-\- keys
### Ctrl-3 "keys"
### Ctrl-Shift-L, Ctrl-Shift-L (to use this, you can't be in the CFEclipse editor window... click in a view and then use this shortcut; does not work in CFBuilder)
## MouseFeed
### Pavlov + Keyboard shortcuts = MouseFeed

h2. Mylyn Links



h4. Official Links


[Mylyn Home Page|http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/]

[Mylyn 3.0 Video|http://live.eclipse.org/node/573] (older but excellent)

[April 14, 2010 Mylyn Webinar|http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/event/webinar-code-at-the-speed-of-thought-with-task-focused-programming]


[TaskTop Home Page|http://tasktop.com/] (TaskTop is mylyn's big brother. Reasonably priced, too)

[TaskTop Videos|http://tasktop.com/resources/videos/]

h4. MXUnit Blog Posts


[Why I love Mylyn|http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/02/why-mylyn-is-indispensible.html]


[My Favorite Mylyn Menu|http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/02/best-eclipse-menu-youve-never-heard-of.html]

[Linking Mylyn up to Jira|http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/03/mylyn-and-jira-short-tutorial.html] (short screencast)

[Sharing context with another developer|http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/03/mylyn-and-jira-sharing-context-with.html] (short screencast)

[Creating new Issues from TODO comments|http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/03/mylyn-creating-new-issues-from-todo.html] (short screencast)


h2. Shortcut Links


[Common Eclipse Shortcuts|http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/04/timesavers-common-eclipse-shortcuts.html]

[Ctrl-Shift-R|http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/04/timesavers-ctrl-shift-r.html]

[Resource Navigation|http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/04/timesavers-tabaholic.html]

[Full Screen and Maximizing screen real estate|http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/07/coldfusion-builder-maximizing-screen.html]

[MouseFeed Home Page|http://www.mousefeed.com/] (Eclipse update site is [http://update.mousefeed.com/])