Saw this interesting article on Slashdot - Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. Will Adobe ever release an updated IDE for ColdFusion? And if they do - would anyone buy it?
The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source [...]
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Open-source Killing Commercial Tools (IDE)
June 10, 2008 – 10:14 am
CMFL IDE Survey - Initial Results
April 17, 2008 – 8:32 am
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 [...]
Beating Free Software
April 10, 2008 – 7:17 pm
I thought this was an interesting read: We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here from Coding Horror.
It won’t be easy for commercial software or subscription websites. If past history is any indication, beating the free alternatives is going to get progressively more difficult every year.
Thought it was very relevant with all the discussion [...]
The Closed State Of The ColdFusion Community
April 9, 2008 – 8:40 am
I saw this post on Mike Henke’s blog… ColdFusion is dead (yet again) and of course I had to go read it. Mike’s take was it was just another “CF is dead” rant. But I clicked through and read the original post The State Of ColdFusion and have to agree with many of [...]
Vince Bonfanti On ColdFusion Weekly, OpenBD Mailing List
April 3, 2008 – 6:01 pm
If you haven’t listened to the Vince Bonfanti interview on ColdFusion Weekly yet - go do it.
To be honest I was expecting a bit more of a ‘cut-n-paste’ interview where Vince responded with canned responses. It was anything but. Vince gave a great overview of his history (he’s a developer GASP!), [...]
Flex, Air Updates For Linux
March 31, 2008 – 7:09 am
This weekend I downloaded the Flex Builder Linux alpha, but ran into some issues and after digging around in the forums it was hinted that a new release would be out ’soon’. Soon turns out to be this morning. Alpha 3 was released today! I’m looking forward to getting home and [...]
Vince Bonfanti Interview on DZone
March 27, 2008 – 11:52 am
Dan Wilson interviews Vince Bonfanti about the recent BlueDragon open-source announcement.
This caught my eye:
We’re also investigating the possibility of creating a free VMWare appliance containing the full software stack including the Linux operating system, MySQL, JBoss or Tomcat, and BlueDragon.
I blogged about doing this almost a year ago… but unfortunately it wasn’t easily doable [...]
BlueDragon Roundtable on CFWeekly
March 17, 2008 – 9:23 am
I kind of lost track of CFWeekly but it appears they are back in a ‘CF_Roundtable’ format which seems pretty cool. This week they discuss the BlueDragon open-source announcement. The roundtable includes:
Sam Farmer
Brian Meloche
Terrence Ryan
Brian Swartzfager
Kurt Wiersma
Dan Wilson
Really good stuff and for the most part everyone seemed fairly positive about things. Matt [...]