Well I did not have to pay for the copy on my work laptop. When I started doing contract work for this group about 4.5 years ago they said we had to use DW, I think it was version 8 or MX not sure because used both of those versions for this group. At the time I had only used CFStudio or Homesite so I forced myself to switch and for a long time disliked certain things but eventually got over them and never even think about them, I think it was just specific hotkeys that I could not get to setup in DW. That manager since left here which is why we never went to CS3, the new manager had no preference but we just stuck with what we had. I ran into a specific bug in DW8 so put out the request to upgrade once CS4 was out. I waited because CS4 was in beta when I found the bug and figured best to wait to get the latest since the bug was far from a show stopper. In that time I have used CFE on a few projects and while it is free I have found I am not near as efficient with it. It takes more of my time and my time is money. There are specific things about it that I do not like. The only one that comes to mind right now is the searching which has greatly improved in Eclipse although still somethings about it that I do not like and hurt my performance when another tool works how I need it too. Now if my complaints/problems are specific to Eclipse then it does not instill a lot of confidence in me that I will like Bolt, not enough to hold out for lord knows how long until I can test drive it and see. So there is my reason for not using something free or waiting to use something that is destined to come out. I also have my hesitations about Bolt and how well it's feature set will work with past versions of CF.
Also with all that said, I did buy CS4 for my home workstation. I actually bought the entire Master Collection due to having a need for several of the products it gives me. So do not look at my laptop example and think oh it is because I got it for free because I did end up buying it for my other working environment. Another thing to note since people always seem to think if someone uses DW then they use the GUI. I use and have always used DW only as a code editor for my work. Very recently I had to use DW CS4 for its WSYWIG stuff during a class I had to take. I was rather impressed with how easy it is to use but will not be using it for my work since there is no need for the type of work I do. You need to figure out what works best for you and then go with it. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]>wrote: > I noticed that the chatter around DW CS4 has increased a lot lately. > > Isaac, Aaron, Massimo, Michael, et al, are discussing it, and, Isaac, > you stated that you "want to use it." > > And for those of you, like Isaac, who would "really like to use it," > my question is, why use DW CS4 instead of say, CFEclipse, when DW is $400 > and CFE is free? (Also especially since Adobe's IDE is right around the > corner...) > > It's a sincere question, because although I like CFE, it's lacking some > features, such as FTP connectivity and manual (saved!) code folding, that > I really want. So I'm considering DW. > > I've considered downloading it and giving it a shot, but I've done that > since > before it was called "Drumbeat" and I've never found it appealing, > especially > not at $400. > > So, what makes it so good in you who are using it? Is it's feature set, or > stability, or whatever, the selling point for you? > > Thanks for the feedback... > > Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316651 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
