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New Atlanta sponsors CFEclipse

May 2, 2006 · 5 Comments

Thats right, we have a sponsor, in a very real "hard-cash" kind of way from New Atlanta, makers of BlueDragon.

New Atlanta sponsored the ability to have multiple tag dictionaries (including of course a Blue Dragon one) and choosing different dictionaries per project.  A  very useful feature indeed and just the kind of sponsorship that propels development of CFEclipse. This means that per project you get validation of your code against a version of CFML that you have chosen for that project. This will highlight any errors that you have with your code for that version of ColdFusion

This means that finally we have some hard-cash that will be well spent on the project (watch this space and cfeclipse.org for more news in the next couple of weeks) and promoting CFEclipse.


Very exciting news indeed!


PS. sorry about the multiple edits, I havent upgraded to the latest version of blogCFC so I cant write drafts!

Tags: cfeclipse · coldfusion · Open BlueDragon · personal

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 John Farrar // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    I think this is so smart. The days of notepad are "long gone"... and it takes more of an IDE than an editor to make things happen. (I have a wish list of things that would make a productive IDE that won't go in this post because it is so exciting to see a CF company with a vision to sponsor a quality IDE!)

    THANKS New Atlanta!

  • 2 Mike Kelp // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    Smart move by New Atlanta!

    Not to take away from their praise, but I have been a little discouraged with the majority of the press I've seen lately that seems to have a more "we'll help you switch to .Net tone" rather than one that encourages use of the CF language on any platform as it was a while back, but I understand it's business.

    This is definitely an encouraging and exciting thing to see and should win a lot of points with CF developers and get them some good attention since BD will be well supported by CFEclipse. Good peeps they are indeed.

  • 3 barry.b // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    " and choosing different dictionaries per project."

    this means, not just to have a BD dictonary, yes?

    but also multiple dictionaries for Adobe CF (7 Vs 6.1 Vs ... 5.0 even?). so it'll help to support multiple (all?) versions of CF?

    now _that's_ giving back to the community! ...(IMHO)

  • 4 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    Barry

    Thats right, the feature means that you can choose which language version you are using on a project, be it cf5 all the way to 7 and BD. So its a pretty good feature.

    With regards to New Atlanta's marketing focus, I wont comment but they need to find a gap in the market and use that.

  • 5 John Farrar // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    We have been told that Adobe is being more agressive at marketing CF than MM was. It will be after Flex before we see anything special happen with CF, but they are showing signs that they have intentions of carrying the product foward with some agressive features. (We will have to wait and each consider if those features are compelling.) The point with .Net is that a major release with new features, less code, AJAX and a very cool IDE have been all released. Now you will find on my blog warnings about how just because they add more surface dressing and cool intro features doesn't mean the whole road is going to be easier.

    I am of the same opinion about RoR. It may be a faster start, but CF is the best language for intro and going deep for me. What we need is a good framework that benefits from all the features of CF. Not just a methodology... something that deals with each of the tiers of logic; design (presentation), data, logic, content, and more. Of course a new version of CF from Adobe or New Atlanta that supported debugging, variable watching and the like would be a great thing also!

    Bottom line. CF is still a better choice for building sites. We need more than just Ben Forta's books though. His books are great, but we lost another author when we didn't buy the book from O'Reily! Together those two books were excellent. (And... who knows if Adobe will release a .Net version in the future also?)

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