Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 12 Dec 2008, Mike Kear wrote: Hey Tom, there's no need for more immature 'my IDE's bigger than you IDE'.Your IDE suits you. Terrific. But it's not a zero sum game. IT doesnt make any difference to anyone else which one you like. No of course not. I took the question to be

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Chiverton
CS4 an IDE ? For ColdFusion coders ? Why - does it support proper IDE features like inspection and refactoring ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to elementarily aggregate killer wireless e-tailers This email is sent for and on behalf of

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Michael van Leest
I've been using Dreamweaver since I've started playing around with web development. First stuff I did was a WYSIWYG ASP/MS ACCESS site which was really cool for me as I had no experience. After doing that for half a year I took some Macromedia courses (fast track SQL, FT Coldfusion MX, Advanced

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Kear
Hey Tom, there's no need for more immature 'my IDE's bigger than you IDE'.Your IDE suits you. Terrific. But it's not a zero sum game. IT doesnt make any difference to anyone else which one you like. And if i like another IDE what do you care? You use yours. Great. I'll use mine.

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Dawson, Michael
And you're not measured on the pecking order of life by the length of your signature either. In Tom's defense, he can't avoid his signature. It's added by his mail server per policy. Mike ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Aaron Rouse
To me Spry has its places as does jQuery. I use both quite a bit, honestly use jQuery more so than Spry but certain things I find a lot easier to use Spry for so it is one of the tools in my toolbox. CS4 has support for each but I have yet to experience that support to really comment on it, just

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Watts
And if i like another IDE what do you care? You use yours. Great. I'll use mine.Who cares? What counts is does MY IDE work for ME in the kind of work i do. It might or might not work for you too, but I dont care. Your implied criticism just smacks of those stupid and very

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread s. isaac dealey
Tom Chiverton wrote: CS4 an IDE ? For ColdFusion coders ? Why - does it support proper IDE features like inspection and refactoring ? I've never needed and not likely to use refactoring tools. To me that goes into the category of snippets and code sweeper, things that other people find useful.

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread Aaron Rouse
Doesn't DW have the ability to connect to a CF Server via RDS and let you browse the CFCs and their functions? Does it fail to drill down more than that? On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM, s. isaac dealey i...@turnkey.to wrote: Tom Chiverton wrote: CS4 an IDE ? For ColdFusion coders ? Why -

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-12 Thread s. isaac dealey
Doesn't DW have the ability to connect to a CF Server via RDS and let you browse the CFCs and their functions? Does it fail to drill down more than that? Oh yeah, I believe if you set up RDS as your type for the remote copy of your site, that gives you access to CFC introspection in

Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
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,

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Dawson, Michael
] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? 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

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread John M Bliss
I like the built-in Spry support in DW. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: 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

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
Isaac, Aaron, Massimo, Michael, et al, are discussing it, and, Isaac, you stated that you want to use it. I am using it actually... I'm just frustrated by the broken SVN support. It's the biggest highlight of the what's new for me... I don't want to have to install Python and regress my local

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
As another few people have stated, a sweet timesaver is the smart-close tag feature. Oh yeah, I forget about that one... it's become second nature, so I take it for granted. But I'm sure I would notice if I started using another editor again. :) I use the insight some too, although possibly not

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
I like the built-in Spry support in DW. shudder Ajax can be so agile if it's not spry. -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 781.769.0723 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~| Adobe®

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread John M Bliss
I've been a CFML dev for 12 years and I still use insight (and/or right-click tag left-click Edit Tag) because I *absolutely do not trust my memory and hate to make mistakes*. I know, I know: slightly anal/OCD. But I swear I'm wicked-fast. :-) On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, s. isaac dealey

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Parkhill
I like the built in tag reference, so if I am trying to do something that I haven't done in a while (or perhaps never) there is the built in tag reference, which gives usage examples. And since I got the CS4 demo installed and working, my RDS is actually RDSing which I had not been able to get to

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
, December 11, 2008 2:46 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? I've been a CFML dev for 12 years and I still use insight (and/or right-click tag left-click Edit Tag) because I *absolutely do not trust my memory and hate to make mistakes*. I know, I know

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
I've been a CFML dev for 12 years and I still use insight (and/or right-click tag left-click Edit Tag) because I *absolutely do not trust my memory and hate to make mistakes*. I know, I know: slightly anal/OCD. But I swear I'm wicked-fast. :-) That oddly reminds me of my relationship to

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread John M Bliss
?!?! -Original Message- From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:46 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? I've been a CFML dev for 12 years and I still use insight (and/or right-click tag left-click Edit

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread John M Bliss
I've been asked to do this (notepad coding) in interviews with CFML/SQL/HTML/JS/etc and I can usually pull it out. My methods allow me to spend almost zero time fixing typos/syntax errors/etc where I've helped colleagues track down insidious bugs caused by errant keystrokes. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Aaron Rouse
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

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
So, is it just TortoiseSVN that's not working with DW CS4? -Original Message- From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:24 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? Question about a feature... does DW CS4 let

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread jonese
- From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:24 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? Question about a feature... does DW CS4 let you set manual code folding points and then save those folds when the file

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
And from what I glean from the conversations, SVN is *not* working?!?! SVN maintains a working copy in your local directories, which is where it stores the latest repo version for comparisons to provide the status that indicates which files have changed. A recent update to the format of the

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
So, is it just TortoiseSVN that's not working with DW CS4? I posted a longer answer to this a minute ago, but the thumbnail synopsuis is that DW's SVN support is not current and that support for the current format is not backward compatible. So it's not just a TortoiseSVN+Dreamweaver thing, it's

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
other than that i am a DW fanboy. (my acfug peeps are always hating on me). I spend 80% in code and he other 15% in split and only 5% in design. Yeah, I don't use split or design at all. I was pretty happy when someone else on this list mentioned a way to prevent the split view from popping

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Massimo Foti
So, is it just TortoiseSVN that's not working with DW CS4? http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb406661sliceId=1 Massimo Foti, web-programmer for hire Tools for ColdFusion, JavaScript and Dreamweaver: http://www.massimocorner.com

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
I've been asked to do this (notepad coding) in interviews with CFML/SQL/HTML/JS/etc and I can usually pull it out. My methods allow me to spend almost zero time fixing typos/syntax errors/etc where I've helped colleagues track down insidious bugs caused by errant keystrokes. Yeah, I've

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Raymond Camden
This discussion was on DW, not Spry, but I've got to stand up for it here. I find Spry to be -very- nice to use, and pretty powerful. It may not be jQuery, but for getting and displaying AJAX-based data on page, no framework can beat it for simplicity (especially for folks who may not have a lot

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Raymond Camden
I've been using it, off and on, for about 3 months now. I was asked by the DW team (well the ADC/DW people) to update some older DW/CF articles, therefore, I had to use. I told them right out that I was a DW Hater, but since this would help folks who were using CF, I agreed to it. Surprisingly,

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
My current TortoiseSVN version is 1.4.5... is that compatible with DW? -Original Message- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:i...@turnkey.to] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:18 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? So, is it just TortoiseSVN that's

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Parkhill
Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? So, is it just TortoiseSVN that's not working with DW CS4? I posted a longer answer to this a minute ago, but the thumbnail synopsuis is that DW's SVN support is not current and that support for the current format is not backward

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
Ray Camden said: This discussion was on DW, not Spry, but I've got to stand up for it here. I find Spry to be -very- nice to use, and pretty powerful. It may not be jQuery, but for getting and displaying AJAX-based data on page, no framework can beat it for simplicity (especially for folks

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Great! I'm glad I hesitated updating TSVN every time it prompted me to! -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:robert.parkh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:01 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE? yes On Thu, Dec 11, 2008

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Raymond Camden
Interesting. I'm replying on your blog. I can say from my experience teaching Spry that most folks who aren't too familiar with JS or Ajax find it quite easy to use. Personally I found Spry a heck of a lot easier to learn than jQuery. Of course, not every style of development will work for every

Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread s. isaac dealey
Great! I'm glad I hesitated updating TSVN every time it prompted me to! Lol... you know you can turn those off, right? :) -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 781.769.0723 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog

RE: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE?

2008-12-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
I wanted to update...it just always asked at the wrong time, which turned out to be the right time... :o) -Original Message- From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:i...@turnkey.to] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Dreamweaver CS4 taking off as an IDE