Hmmm, sounds good... Maybe when I get a new dev machine with a P4 and 1G of memory I'll be able to run it along with CF7, mysql, fireworks, etc...
B) Patrick Branley wrote: > Cool stuff cfeclipse/eclipse has the DW/Homesite Doesnt > > 1. UTF-8 . Homesite has a dodgy issue with utf-8 and can break xml files > and multi-lingual pages because of its automatic insertion of the BOM > marker. Admittedly DW does support UTF8 > > 2. Tasks/bookmarks. Theres a neat little feature in CFEclipse with <!--- > todo: ---> notes you can put into your CFM/CFC files that gives you a > runnign task list of things that require completion. very handy for team > development or just rmemebering what you were doing at days/weeks end > when you come back to your code. > > 3. methods view. For the life of me i cant work out why DW doesnt have a > methods view that doesnt require RDS > > 4. Eclipse Web Tools Project WTP. This set of plugins give you XML,CSS & > Javscript edting fuctionality. Used in combination with the 'outline' > view of eclipse and they let you easily navigate though long files right > the the section you are after. > > 5. another feature of WTP is a DB Exprlorer that you can use similar to > sql query analyser. i use it to keep a record of all the db updates and > manual sql hacks i do so then i dont forget about them when i put the > site into production. > > 6. Regular Expression Find / Replace - once you get a handle on regex's > they are very handy. > > 7. Adobe RDS plugin and wizards. Although DW and HS both have the rds > support the eclipse plugin also as wizards so you can create your own > CFC's on the fly. > > 8. File Compare. Side by side comparision of two versions of the same > file is very handy when you want to compare DEV v Production versions of > files (because some naughty developer changed something in one version > an not another!) > > > 9. Local History. Eclipse stores cvs-style the changes to your files in > its local history. very handy if you want to restore back to an old > version of a file. > > > 10. ANT support. Ant scripts are cool xml files you can write to produce > builds of your codebase and even FTP them up to your sever. > > > Those would be my top 10 features of eclipse. + the billions of plugins > you can get make it far superior to DW and HS. > > Pat > > > > On 6/10/06, *Chad Renando* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Used both CFEclipse and DW for single-developer environment, several > years on DW, about 12 months on Eclipse. From discussions in the > past, it seems to be personal preference. DW has a bad stigma from > being a resource hog, but now that I have a faster 'puter, I'm back to > DW. I don;t use design view and frequently bounce back and forth > between coding and ftp in the same app, which is good. > > Chad > > On 6/9/06, Chris Velevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I use eclipse because of it's intergration with version control. > I use > > cvs and vss and plan to use subversion or Darcs. Plus it has local > > history as well. > > > > > > Chris > > -- > > Chris Velevitch > > Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group > > www.flashdev.org.au <http://www.flashdev.org.au> > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
