# Sunday, May 08, 2005

Budget CF Developer?

Want to keep it legit too? The open-source community has developed an IDE that seems to have large support for all sorts of things:

Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. Find out what eclipse is all about - check out the Eclipse Roadmap, white paper, read some technical articles, visit the newsgroups, take a look at the projects, and pick up the latest downloads.

[ eclipse.org ]

For my purposes I downloaded the "platform" version (since I won't be extending Eclipse, just using it), installed the CF plug-in and the VSS plug-in and then got a bit frustrated before finding out the VSS plug-in required the Java Development Tools winzip_icon_xp_tiny.gif to be installed to function correctly.

Once all of that was in place, it appears I have a program that is vastly superior to ColdFusion Studio 5, and vastly cheaper than DreamWeaver MX 2004. It still isn't CF editing in my beloved VisualStudio, but it will do.

#    Comments [2] |
Monday, May 09, 2005 7:38:12 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
That's pretty tight. For a free IDE it's nice and nice to look at. After a few minutes I had CF up and running and I think I figured out how to create my own hotkey bindings. I could easliy see doing my CF development in Eclipse.
Nate
Monday, May 09, 2005 7:41:03 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I like the fact that the VSS plug-in uses the exact same hot keys I had specified in my CF Studio at work...
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