ColdFire 1.0 was released today and I have to say that Ray and Nathan have made a fantastic tool. For those of you who are using Firebug (and if you aren’t using it, this is one bandwagon that you need to be on) and doing ColdFusion development, ColdFire is an extension to Firebug that takes all of the debugging output and puts it down in the Firebug panel.

No more minuscule output to scroll through because your stylesheet makes the text 4px high, no more text hidden behind one of your DIVs when using a tableless design, and no more scrolling down past your design to see variable values and back up again.

When someone puts out a time-saving, well designed tool to make development easier and faster, you should investigate it – yes, I’m talking to all you dinosaurs still using notepad or vi for your ColdFusion development.