> -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:16 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: free/inexpensive html editors/ftp software > > well, for "code editor", i'd be looking at Eclipse and CFEclipse. > > http://cfeclipse.org/
Seconded... but be prepared for a learning curve and some frustration. Like a lot of open-source software Eclipse has some problems: +) The interface is far from best of class. It favors customization and flexibility over usability and consistency. You'll be hunting for properties windows, preferences settings and controls for a long time. It was made by developers for developers... human factors just didn't seem to be consulted (although in this respect 3.x is INFINITELY better than 2.x). +) There's very little "best of breed" consensus available. Most functionality is provided by plug-ins and any function may have more than a dozen plug-ins that serve it. It's common to need a large plug-in with many functions just to get a single view or tool and most plug-ins have some fatal flaw which leads to installing another to cover the gap. +) Upgrading is a HUGE pain. There are a lot of tutorials online for how to upgrade, but that's more of an indictment than a benefit. You generally can't upgrade across point releases and are instead forced to install a new version then migrate settings and plug-ins. Still, it definitely grows on you! You just have to force yourself through the first few weeks. ;^) I find the following plug-ins invaluable: CFEclipse: Personally I don't do much Eclipse any more but there are lot of useful views in here for general development as well. The Snip Tree (code snippets), browser and tasks views are all very useful for nearly any development. Aptana: HTML, JavaScript, CSS development (also AIR, Flex and others). One of the few very large, professionally developed plug-ins. Tends to "take over" the interface a bit but contains lots of useful tools (including, I think, a better FTP/File view than CFEclipse). There's a paid, "professional" version that offers more but I've never used it. Eclipse Target Management: This is an Eclipse Project plug-in that gives SSH/SFT/STP access to remote servers and drag-and-drop file transfer between remote servers and the local machine. Very useful for me. Could use a LOT more polish but still, it does its job. The command shell won't completely replace puTTY but it comes close. Quantum DB: Your basic database interface. SQL queries, table view, etc. Needs a lot more polish to be truly great (for example you can only copy and paste an entire row of output, not a single value which makes working with it tedious as hell) but the best I've found that works with DB2. Bastian-Bergerhoff Tools: This is a grab bag of useful views. The best are the QuickREx Regular Expression developer/tester and the XPath developer-tester. > can't really help with the photo editing thing. altho i just noticed > that flickr is using a company called picnick (http://www.picnik.com/) > to do their online photo editing (which is that basic image > correction, cropping, resizing). you don't need flickr, you can go > directly to the picnick site. there's a lot of nice features for > free. if you want advanced editing features, it's $25 a year, which > ain't too bad either. it's definitely some slick stuff. I've heard GIMP is good but I've been a loyal and happy CorelDraw! User since version 2.0 I'll never understand why people spend so much on PhotoShop when CorelDraw contains do much more value and functionality for less than half the price. You get best of breed vector graphics (CorelDraw!), should-be-best-of-breed bitmap graphics (CorelPhoto-Paint) tons of utilites (OCR/Trace, Capture, Font management, etc) a shit-ton of free stuff (Fonts, clipart, photos, etc) and great training materials. You can produce (basic) Flash movies and PDFs directly do image maps, etc. The whole suite is scriptable via Visual Basic for Applications (same as Office) and Photoshop definitely shines brighter for print work, but Corel is so much better at online graphics it's ridiculous. And the whole suite is $400... and right now you get a free 80 Gig portable drive when you buy it. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249017 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
