From CF Studio to CF Builder...

Question

I've developed using CF Studio for the last 11 years. Yes, 11 years. I started in January 2000 and learned on it and even when I've tried other editors I've come back to CF Studio every time.
I just downloaded Builder and so far, it looks like a new version of Studio. Great! However, as I'm poking around with it, I can't find some stuff that I used to use [i]all the time[/i] in Studio.
For example, Builder has a little tag reference list up at the top of my cfm file, with a few basic elements that it will stick in the document on their own, or around the text you have highlighted. However, I'm not finding the extensive "QuickBars" that were in Studio - including common, tables, CFML Basic, CFML advanced, CFForm, CFML flow and others.
Are they out there somewhere and I haven't found them yet? Can I download them from someplace? Are they just gone?
Yes, I understand there will be differences, I'm just trying to find some of my "old favorites"
Thanks!
Michelle

Answer 1

Adobe must be joking with ColdFusion builder. I think way too many developers convinced Adobe to abandon ColdFusion because their way of coding was somehow better. What is really pathetic is that CFBuilder isn't even suitable for web construction. Awful piece of software.
Suggesting CFB isn't a very good HTML editor is like saying Excel sux as far as word processors goes.  It's nonsensical.
CFB is a CF IDE, it's not intended as an HTML editing tool.  Adobe has DreamWeaver for that.  That said, CFB bundles Aptana in with it, and that is an HTML editing tool.  I've heard it's held in reasonably high regard, but I couldn't comment because I don't do HTML stuff.
I think way too many developers convinced Adobe to abandon ColdFusion because their way of coding was somehow better.
I think what you'll find is that Adobe has acknowledged that an awful lot of CF development is not really that closely coupled to HTML and web-page-centric web applications any more (wherein one might have home.cfm and orders.cfm, etc).
I code CF all day every day, and 75% of the files I edit have no mark-up in them at all, and we've got other people to monkey around with the view templates anyhow: they do the mark-up.  I'm not saying that's a "right way" or a "wrong way" or a "better way" or a "common way" or a "popular way", but it's "a way" and it's a way a lot of people do work.  We don't all work the way you do.
For the way you seem to work, there's DreamWeaver: that's the product aimed at you.  There's plenty of legitimate reasons to deride CFB, but what you're saying isn't one of them.
Adam