Good points. I am not familiar with Zend Studio, but I do agree Visual Studio is probably the albatross of all of them. Nice to hear it works well with source control and plug ins. Based on the feedback I am getting Builder seems to be very stable contrary to a few web posts I have read.
On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michael Firth <mfsqlser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thoughts about cf builder. > > First off, it's an absolute bargain in terms of increased > productivity! Second, $299 is very reasonable for professional > development software - look at Zend Studio and Visual Studio > Professional. > >> Do you use it? > > Every day. Adobe ColdFusion Builder is open 24x7 on my desktop > machine. I have it installed standalone with a handful of other > plugins (git for version control and Clojure / Scala plugins too). > >> Or do you use cf eclipse or another alternative? > > On my Ubuntu netbook, which I use when I'm on the road, I have to use > CFEclipse and that's when I appreciate CFBuilder even more. Don't get > me wrong, CFEclipse is great for the price and it's a huge achievement > for a string of volunteer, mostly non-Java developers over the years - > but it's missing a lot of features which I rely on in my day-to-day > work, including several extensions (which is one of the absolute > killer features of CFBuilder!): > > http://www.adrocknaphobia.com/assets/content/images/ColdFusion_Builder_Compare.png > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwo > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341293 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm