Can't speak for others, but it's a real challenge for me because I may be primarily working on "one application" at any given time, but I also support many other legacy applications. These are all, in fact, in one web root on the web server, but each is an entirely separate site and application with unique code. When I need to quickly jump over to tweak one file on one app that I probably won't look at again for 3 months, it is a Colossal pain to have to create Project, wait for the project to load (most of them are large = many subdirs and files), and then make what is a simple change. And considering just how badly CFB lags when a project has huge numbers of files, I cannot imagine what it would take to attempt mounting all sites from one of our servers into a single project.
Now, on the flip side, I've been using CVS and SVN for years, and I completely 'get' the concept of a project and how and why to use them. I love using projects in CFB when it's the current app I'm working on, because of all the tools that come with the IDE, like knowing how files relate to each other and what objects are being called. But being limited to using projects is a true PITA when I'm working on that other 23-30%. HomeSite+ simply rules at this aspect of work. On 5/31/2010 1:51 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus > <pruckelsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> However, beg to differ on the CFBuilder example. If you're not working in a >> project, go file> new> coldfusion page. If you're not in a project, you >> can't do a thing. Useless. I realize that this is an Eclipse behavior, but >> it's useless, and it's why I don't use Eclipse for Java dev, either. Yes, I >> can edit existing files on the filesystem. >> > And you can Save As... to create new files anywhere you want but, > you're right, you can't just create new files in a folder. I'm > surprised that doesn't work and might even consider it a bug (go open > a bug on the public bugbase for CFBuilder). Of course, I've never run > into that (odd) behavior because, well, I've been using projects for > years. I can't even imagine not using a project for each web site I > work on... I mean, you have a web root already... why isn't that your > project? > > I guess at this point I'd have to ask about working practices: > > How many folks think of a "web site" or a "web application" when > they're editing / creating new files? > Do folks really find it a stretch to go from that concept to an actual > site/project in their IDE? > > I'm genuinely curious about this because I can't imagine working > without sites / projects and I want to really understand why there is > such a pushback on this... Thanx! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
