I was checking out this CFUnited post on what people are looking forward to seeing at CFUnited. This comment from Marc Escher caught my eye:
Question: A recent hot topic?
Marc: One that doesn’t get much press but which is on the minds of many is whether Adobe’s going to come out with a CF IDE. [...]
I finally found a bit of time to sit down and pull out some results from the CFML IDE survey:
393 Results (4/9 - 4/28)
1. Which of these describes your role best as a CFML user?
- Application Developer (172)
- Web Developer (129)
- Application Architect (60)
- Other included “superdude” and “all around scrub”
2. Which IDE(s) do [...]
When we last left our Savvy saga we were facing installation. Again the great documentation made installation a breeze and sums up the steps required nicely:
Savvy CM installation is very easy. There are no installation programs to be run on the server, instead you copy your files to the web server, modify the includes.cfm file [...]
April 17, 2008 – 12:38 pm
Lots of good stuff going on in the CFEclipse community lately. Development is picking up, there are lots of discussions going on about the future of CFEclipse. Mark has released a few ‘bleeding edge’ examples using Aptana and Eclipse’s DLTK.
But you may not know that…
So I thought I’d share a few ways you [...]
The ‘Open’ CFML Survey has been up for about a week. As promised here is the first round of results:
Total Number of Survey Results
371
First Result
4/09/08 1:35 AM
Last Result
4/16/08 6:45 PM
Results are available in both PDF and Excel:
PDF: cfml-ide-report-041708
Excel: cfml-ide-report-041708
Both these are just a dump of the data - no pretty graphs. I’m [...]
If you are concerned with the direction and future of CFEclipse - I’d urge you to check out the CFEclipse mailing list. Marc Esher has a great post “Where Is CFEclipse Headed“. I’ve been having similar thoughts lately - he just beat me to the punch in organizing them into a cohesive thought [...]
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 [...]
Ray Camden kindly gave me access so I could setup a survey using his Soundings Survey application (it rocks!).
I’ve copied the original questions from the Adobe survey and added a few John Farrar sent me after some discussions on this open Aptana support ticket.
Once we collect some data I’ll publish the results on [...]