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January 27, 2010 · 7 Comments

You may have seen my previous posts about Apptacular. I'm getting pretty far along in it, and I wanted to figure out how many lines of code I had written, you know, for my only curiosity's sake. There's no easy way of doing this, but I figured that this was the perfect excuse to build another extension.

So basically I wrote an extension that will count every nonblank line in every file in a targeted folder. It then groups those line counts by folder, extension, and then just all files.

This extension isn't going to change anyone's life. But it's a great example of the fact that ColdFusion Builder extensions remove barriers to entry for this sort of thing. If I had to drop to Java to extend this in Eclipse I would have never done it - too much work for too little reward. But with ColdFusion Builder extensions in ColdFusion there's very little cost to indulging in this sort of experiment:

  • 10 minutes to write the base code
  • 10 minutes to turn it into an extension
  • 1 hour getting the formatting right to share publicly. (CSS is sadly harder then ColdFusion)

Feel free to use it, and improve on it: BuilderStats at RIAForge.

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Tags: ColdFusion Builder Extensions · ColdFusion · ColdFusion Builder

7 response s so far ↓

  • 1 Raymond Camden // Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    Thanks for sharing this! I ran it on BlogCFC- which "only" has 47,092 lines of code. :)

  • 2 cfcoder // Jan 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    ...I’m probably horrendously slow, but: how do one use this extension, after installing it, can’t seem to find "builder stats" anywhere in any menus og contextual menus (except in the Extensions View)...

  • 3 Rob Brooks-Bilson // Jan 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    cfcoder,

    You can access it via Right Click from folders in the Navigator view.

  • 4 tpryan // Jan 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM

    Thanks, Rob, that is correct.

  • 5 cfcoder // Jan 27, 2010 at 4:54 PM

    yeah, that’s what I thought, but it just isn’t there. probably done something wrong while installing.

  • 6 dan fredericks // Feb 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM

    I have trouble with this extension as well. I installed it to my local cf9 developers edition in the wwwroot folder. Then I tried to run it on some code I have in the wwwroot folder. I just get Navigation to the webpage was canceled display in my popup display.
    I am interested in this extension to see how it will work for sure.

    thanks for any help.

  • 7 tpryan // Feb 3, 2010 at 5:12 PM

    Alright, so it appears that the problem was I am pretty stupid. I think I fixed the issue. Please give it another download.

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