> Dreamweaver is evil. It crashes often and is slow to open and > sometimes won't open a drive's contents after you choose it > from the dropdown, but at least it opens.
My experience with it hasn't been this painful, and lately that experience has been on a somewhat underpowered machine - 512 MB RAM, Intel Core Solo 1400. There are a bunch of options you can set to make it load and run more quickly, actually. Here's one, offhand: http://cfmxplus.blogspot.com/2002/10/speeding-up-dreamweaver-mx-disable.html > It's probably worth mentioning that it's criminally expensive. Criminally expensive? Really? It's $400. You can pay for that with one day of billable work. If you consider $400 criminally expensive for one of the primary tools that you use for your job, your expectations are unrealistic. > CF Eclipse has lots of nice features, and if it didn't use > over 400MB of RAM + VM (not an exaggeration), I think it > might even be considered usable. Unfortunately, the massive > Java bloat, that would be funny if it werent so sad, makes > the editor responsive/usable only to those who have 2GB+ of > RAM (unless you want to run your own CF Dev instance on the > box in which case I'd go for 3GB+) which can obviously get > prohibitively expensive if you have more than 1 or 2 > developers using it. I'm comfortably running Eclipse within a VMware instance, along with a whole bunch of J2EE services, and I have 1.5 GB RAM allocated to the entire VM. The "massive Java bloat" is there because Eclipse started out as a Java IDE, so it has all sorts of plugins enabled (by default) for Java development. The version of Eclipse I mentioned above is actually the Web Tools Platform superset, with even more plugins for JBoss support, etc, etc. I also have the FlexBuilder plugin, CFEclipse, and LiveCycle Designer 8.1 installed into the same version of Eclipse. And again, it's still running fine. > I guess only the super rich can develop for CF at this point. You've got to be kidding me. You get paid for CF development, right? You can't afford 2 GB RAM? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282233 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
