> Would you all agree, that us ColdFusion developers deserve > some love too!! For the past year and a half haven't you all > felt marginalized. Sure ColdFusion MX sports a bunch of new > features that are fantastic and the as for old advanced > features - they're tighter than ever. I'm loving cffunction, > I'm all over cfc's, and ColdFusion's ability to integrate > with FLASH is the best thing since the last "best thing".
So, you're saying that CFMX, the biggest sea change in CF's history, came out and you feel marginalized? The entire product was rewritten in Java, it has all sorts of new stuff, and this makes you feel marginalized? I frankly can't imagine what herculean effort would be required to make you feel less marginalized. > However, despite all of these wonderful improvements in the > server application, I'm still not convinced that they have > committed to providing us with a solid "Development > Environment" that supports the work habits of the > sophisticated ColdFusion Developer. Think about. > Dreamweaver, a designer's tool has "component browsing" but > Homesite doesn't. What is up with that? I think it's a mistake to call Dreamweaver a "designer's tool". To me, it's a tool that's useful for both designers and developers, and in a team environment where you have both, it works very well. > ColdFusion Studio 5 was great because to me, it was well > aligned with ColdFusion 5 the server. Dreamweaver still > seems to be an overkill designers solutions. If Dreamweaver did everything that CF Studio did, and other "designers' solutions" stuff as well, would you be happy with that? I think that's Macromedia's goal. I think it's useful to chart Microsoft's progress with Visual Studio as a comparison. When they started out, Visual Studio was pretty bad - it was basically a bunch of IDEs bundled together. Today, VS.NET 2003 is a very slick editor for any .NET programming you're doing - ASP.NET, traditional Windows applications, etc. > Homesite 5.5 looks to be moving in the direction of a very > "good" HTML editor, and as for Contribute, it must have been > the boses, daughter's boyfriend cousin's idea. Well, if that's so, someone should hire the cousin right away - he's a very smart guy. Contribute is an incredible product! Is it suitable for you or me? No. But it's by far the best product of its kind available, by a long shot. Not everyone is writing CF code, you know. There are plenty of people who just want to write and maintain a few web pages without having to learn HTML. Contribute is for those people, and it works very well for them. It's a content management tool that doesn't require a complex CMS package. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
