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…
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.
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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 :)
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…
“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!
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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.