CFML IDE - Initial Numbers

So the CFML IDE Survey has been up for a few days… some quick numbers:

  • The post on my blog had about 200 hits
  • Survey admin says: Total Number of Survey Results ~ 300

Hopefully there are more than 300 ColdFusion developers out there… :)

If you haven’t taken it yet - please consider taking a few moments to take the survey!

I’ll wait a few more days and then post some preliminary results…

This entry was written by Jim, posted on April 14, 2008 at 9:50 am.

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5 Comments

  1. chris hough
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    I have passed that link around to my contacts as well Jim. There has got to be more than 300 devs around , or adobe addicts. Even though I primarily use eclipse + dwmx cs3 it would be very interesting if adobe created a cfm ide. I am wondering if they would take an approach similar to the current flex builder plug in or stand alone.

    ……….

  2. Jim
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 11:23 am | Permalink

    Chris - thanks for spreading the word! I’d hope if Adobe did anything they would use Eclipse. It seems like it is becoming the standard platform for IDEs (and I think that’s a good thing).

    With the upcoming release of OpenBD on the horizon however - the need for a vendor independent IDE may become more important - I don’t think Adobe will support OpenBD tags in their IDE :)

  3. chris hough
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

    Instead of rebuilding all of the eclipse functionality + add ons, a plug in similar flex would definitely be cheaper. While I am more in favor of the plug in approach to keep everything I need housed in one tool, I understand your OpenBD concern. BD could build a plug in as well…

  4. Calvin
    Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

    “I don’t think Adobe will support OpenBD tags[snip]”

    I can’t help but imagine the following appearing everywhere…

    cfif Server.IsColdFusion
    … do this
    cfelseif Server.IsOpenBD AND Server.Version IS NOT “9.3″
    … don’t do this
    cfelseif Server.IsCommercialBD
    … do this, but do it the BD way
    cfelse
    … Throw hands in air!
    /cfif

    Or just avoid the OpenBD (and/or ColdFusion) only tags!

  5. Ken McCafferty
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:45 pm | Permalink

    I still use JRun Studio 3 because of it’s support for Wizards. Wizards were one of the great features of JRun Studio and CF Studio.
    They can greatly decrease development time. I think if Adobe is interested in creating a great IDE for CF, they need to include the ability to create and use Wizards.

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