Tuesday, November 23, 2004

CFEclipse

Over the past years as I've been developing ColdFusion applications I started with ColdFusion Studio, then onto HomeSite+, then I tried DreamWeaver for a short stint, then quickly back to HomeSite. Using some extensions made for HomeSite to help developing Fusebox 4 applications, I ran into some problems and started looking for other ColdFusion IDE's, especially one I could run on my new Mac that I had ordered OTHER then DreamWeaver. I stumbled across the CFEclipse project, which uses the Java developed Eclipse IDE with an "extension" or "plug-in" for ColdFusion. So far it runs faster then DreamWeaver on my PC, but I can't seem to get the tag completion to work. There isn't any Fusebox 4 support built in yet, but there's talk about it so it's a possibility. Till then I'll give it a little bit of a try, one of the developers working on it posted some videos on how to use it so I'll take a look at those to see if I can understand how to use this tool better.

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