Great question Phyo! I too heard the buzz about CFEclipse, installed it and ended up wondering what all of the excitement was about? Sincerely, I really do want to be won over.
But in doing the comparison, would the CFEclipse advocates please qualify which version of Dreamweaver they last worked with? DW8's tag collapse and balance braces alone make it a winner for me. Note, the tag collapse works with any tag based syntax. It is the bomb. Regarding Barney's view about the "code-centric stuff bolted on", I prefer to view it as two tools for the price of one. The world's best graphical HTML authoring tool (and DW8 has brilliant improvements for CSS support), AND for code editing, HOMESITE/CFStudio evolved. And I too like being able to navigate by going back and forth between code and design views. No dis on CFEclipse. I am a HUGE open source fan (MySQL, Subversion, Tomcat, Open Office, and on and on). Personally for me, however, CFEclipse is not YET the productivity tool that DW8 is. And calling tag completion "lazy programmer things". Oh yeah tough guy! So why are you using CFEclipse? Why don't you just do all of your coding in VI. lol. Man, when my fingers are flying across the keyboard, anything that: a) get's the job done sooner; b) eliminates even 1 typo in 1000, is cool by me. I mean, the whole point of using computers is to let computers do the things computers can do (like tag completion and code collapse), so that we developers can maximize our time doing the things that computers can not do. fyi ... following are two recent articles on CFEclipse from CFDJ. The August article is the one that convinced me to take CFEclipse for a spin. The January article I haven't read yet. CFEclipse for ColdFusion Developers -- Jan 20, 2006 http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/167971.htm CFEclipse: The Developer's IDE, Eclipse For ColdFusion -- Aug 18, 2005 http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/48235.htm Again, I look forward to the day that CFEclipse is my tool of choice. But I must say, I admire how Macromedia keeps giving me reasons to buy their products in the midst of competition from open source. Oh, hey, isn't this a cf list? The new features in CF7 were brilliant. No open source tools giving me gateways and report writers (yet). I am now eagerly awaiting the first Adobe CF release. Best Regards, g ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230661 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
