Last night I was thinking about the Bolt announcement and how disappointed I was in the whole thing. For the most part they announced they were building CFEclipse. Yes they announced some ORM and code generation tools but the majority of ‘features’ they announced are available today in CFEclipse. Maybe I’m spoiled by using open-source [...]
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So I go to a meeting and of course all the cool stuff is announced… CF IDE! Bolt! The good: Object Relational Mapping auto-configuration Application Code Generation Server management These other features are already in CFEclipse or available via a plugin: Easily extensible through the Eclipse framework CFML, HTML, Javascript, and CSS Syntax Highlighting Code [...]
The CFEclipse world has been quiet lately. The mailing list has been slow, bug reports are rare, and it seems people are making due with the latest ‘beta’ release which for the most part works well with the latest Eclipse 3.4. I poke around on the CFEclipse wiki doing occasional updates but wonder if anyone [...]
Saw this interesting article on Slashdot – Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools. Will Adobe ever release an updated IDE for ColdFusion? And if they do – would anyone buy it? The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source [...]
I was checking out this CFUnited post on what people are looking forward to seeing at CFUnited. This comment from Marc Escher caught my eye: Question: A recent hot topic? Marc: One that doesn’t get much press but which is on the minds of many is whether Adobe’s going to come out with a CF [...]