I just took a web contract to fix up an existing site written in ColdFusion. I haven't had a chance to peak at the code yet, but the site itself is riddled with problems. Anyway, I've never used ColdFusion before, and barely know anything about it. Tutorials shouldn't be too hard to find, but what about an IDE? Is there a nice Visual Studio plugin? Or do I even need one?
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There is an eclipse plugin called cfeclipse, which is fairly nice. I like it. Adobe has a ton of great online documentation for CF syntax and coding examples. Coldfusion is fairly fast to get up and running, but it does take a while to get really good and know some of the hidden potentials of the language.
Jay
2010-01-26 23:08:05
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The official ColdFusion IDE from Adobe is ColdFusion Builder (in beta 3 right now, 1.0 final later this year).
It is Eclipse based (same as CFEclipse), and it will not be free (unlike CFEclipse).
If you already have Dreamweaver, you can install an extension and make it an IDE for CF as well.
Henry
2010-01-26 23:14:00
Totally agree with this answer, however I'll add that Coldfusion was designed to be easy enough to edit from any HTML editor. The IDEs basically help you remember the tag syntax.
Dan Sorensen
2010-01-27 00:42:26
You don't need to install an extension for DW, it already comes shipped with CF8 support. The (buggy) extension provides tool tips for the new tags, that's all. Having support for CF does not make DW a CF IDE. http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/24/On-Eclipse-ColdFusion-Builder-And-IDEs
Travis
2010-01-29 16:50:40