while I have done things that I might regret, I do no forget that I am still alive. A blog by Ian Sheridan.
As I grow and get to know the things and people around me I disconver the absolute bottomless ocean of wave after wave of energizing knowledge. When we see that life is not just ours we come to a place that everything is.
Take these little glimpses into my collection of words and knowings and carry them carefully into you.
The title of this entry says it all. For me to go back to Dreamweaver (DW) after so many years of “Homesite/CF Studio” and then this past year with CFEclipse, would be a big step backwards as far as my tool suite goes. Yes I am very familiar with DW, but it cannot stand up against what Eclipse is offering me. The biggest difference being cost ($399 for DW, dont even mention the studio … $999 anyone?, and $0 for CFEclipse). Please don’t mention support. How many times have you needed to call in for support of DW or any of the studio apps? Yes they are good products for designers but taking a WYSIWYG design app and repurposing it for a coding platform has always felt wrong for me and many others. Hence why most people used CFStudio and Homesite for so long after it was abandoned by Macromedia.
So here is my respose to Tom Lane and his comment that were posted on Damon Cooper’s Blog.
“Please! of course you would be saying that you love DW. You worked on the darn thing! how long has it been since you’ve had to really use a good IDE to code with? You guys have a long way to go to offer the suite of tools that Eclipse has right now. Let me also point out that Macromedia is now putting it support behind CFEclipse.”
here is a list of things that I use Eclipse for:
It all adds up.
Well again I am drawn to what Ray has done for the community. He took apart the debugging template for for CFMX7 (as is obvious by this little snippet “cfusionmx7\wwwroot\web-inf\debug”) and created on much more to his liking and to mine 
. He talks about lookign for a more of a summary instead of a detailed “method call” after “method call” type report.
This gives me some ideas that I want to impliment for myself.
Ray talked about being asked to include images in the RSS feed available through the BlogCFC application. Interesting that it is a Yahoo included functionality in a RSS feed. I have in the passed included images in the exerpted that is included in a RSS entry but I have never included a peice of media in the feed itself. Is this option needed… no but we all like our toys don’t we?
If you want to read more of what Ray said hop on over.
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