>Lets be fair Rick, ColdFusion Builder can and will be installed as a stand >alone product in a very large number of cases.
True....but I wonder if that will continue to be an issue when installing updates, as it was with the betas. Normal Eclipse plugins update much more elegantly than CFB did, and what I've heard is this will continue to be the case. I don't know if it's true, but it definitely is something I would consider when moving to it off the normal Eclipse environment. >Those of us that code CFML all day >everyday need a full featured product that works and is fast. ColdFusion >Builder has that potential. Potential yes, but it's not there yet, at least for me. I'd agree that things like better code folding, proper word-wrapping, better CFC introspection and other such features are things that *would* make it worth the price. It's certainly got some things that are very beneficial, the syntax checker I found to be excellent overall, and certainly if you are using some of the CF9 stuff like ORM, that would be a big plus. But then I look at some of the unresolved issues like the scrolling bug that just drives me nuts and easily kill my productivity when I run across it on a regular basis. I had lots of issues with the tag insight and tag help as well, that often inserted when I didn't want it to, and yet didn't come up when I needed. It's two steps back for me for every thing it helps with. I think the best approach they could have taken would have been what they did with Lightroom when that came out and offered it to all the initial buyers at $100 off (knowing that we were essentially still going to be beta testing it for them, and also being up-front from the start that it was an introductory price only good for a certain amount of time). That would have been a big way to support all the existing developers and getting them on board with the product, without committing themselves to a lower price going forward. Release a good enough 2.0 version and most users will pay to upgrade anyway. Having said that, I really am thrilled to hear that they are giving it for free for educational use. That certainly is a big step in the right direction and that along with educational use of the server really shows that they are starting to see that bringing in more developers is really critical for the future of ColdFusion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332124 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
