So somewhere there’s a war raging about ColdFusion IDE‘s.
I use both Dreamweaver and Eclipse split about 50/50. IMO both are missing features and could do with more work done on them. However I can use both proficiently and the ColdFusion IDE war is not a huge deal for me. I am not a designer so there’s heaps of stuff in Dreamweaver I don’t use. Of course I’d love one fully integrated, feature rich, speedy development environment that sparkles like diamonds while doing so, but I’m not really waiting for it.
Generally I choose which IDE to use, by the style of code I’m working with. I think it’s fair to say there are different development ‘styles’ and we chop and change as appropriate.
Anyhow my primary thought at this time … I heard once that the /CFIDE folder was once supposed to enable/host a completely ‘online’ code editing system. Which never really eventuated. Don’t kill me on the specifics it’s like a chinese whisper or something.
Fast forward 10+ years and we have Ajax, Flash, Flex and AIR and others. Desktop applications like MS Word and others are going ‘online’.
My vote would be to have a ColdFusion developers environment in the same style. AIR could be a great platform for this ‘online’ development approach which could work dare I say ubiquitously across my PC and my Mac and my local CF installation and my remote CF hosting. And then there’s that whole communal collaboration potential (slight tongue in cheek), sheesh don’t even start me!
Taking java development completely ‘online’ (as in Eclipse going the same route as other online apps) would be quite a task. Doing something revolutionary with CFIDE and AIR might be insanely easy (maybe, shit what do i know) and it would be kudos for those technologies I guess.
It’s 3:20am and I wont hold back in saying those original CF guys were way ahead of their time :)
Disclaimer: just got home from interstate, didn’t read anything other than Mark Kruger’s post. Night night 2008, just slow down, ok.
