After using CFBuilder 1.x (yes I have the update) for sometime now, I'm this close to going back to Dreamweaver CS4 due to CFBuilder's poor poor performance.

After convincing my client to shell out for the IDE, I'm feeling kinda guilty.

I consistently get "(Not Responding)" in the application title bar. My curor goes into an infinite loop of circles and I just wait....and wait...and wait.

It's as if the more files you throw at a CF project, the more it gets bogged down.

I was working swimmingly with CFBuilder in the beginning, with a small project. No problems..everything was copacetic.

Now I had to go out and grab a live site and bring it down to my desktop. Get it working in my local dev environment, then check it into SVN.

First, the FTP client within the app is really slow and buggy. I ended up getting FileZilla and haven't looked back.

Now the project with close to 56gb of code and images to track feels like a tanker ship. I can't go between directories smoothly. The IDE constantly wants to update it's index or something. I have one directory with about 500 image files or more and CFBuilder takes forever to show me the content in it's tree structure. Very Very Very annoying and slow.

I'm going to give CFBuilder a little bit more time before I ask for my money back from Adobe for the sake of my client's bank account.

This is just ridiculous...argh!

Anyone else experiencing anything like this?

"Search Engine Optimization for the ColdFusion Developer"

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) In today's world, the bulk of our traffic to the websites we create comes from search engines. And with the exception of failed business models burning through VC money, more traffic equals more money. But few developers bother to do even basic search engine optimization, which can dramatically improve their websites performance on Google and the like. The good news is that the basics of SEO is relatively easy to do, especially inside of most CFML applications. We'll go over the fundamentals of SEO and how you can easily integrate these principals into your application. We'll also discuss some free programs you can use to track your progress, and some other techniques to keep you in Google's good graces.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

SPEAKER: Jeff Gladnick

Jeff Gladnick lives in San Francisco, CA and has been a ColdFusion developer for over 10 years, since version 4.5. He's developed web applications for a variety of companies including the Produce Marketing Association, Dun & Bradstreet, The Gap, and Adobe. He particularly likes Model Glue as a framework, and also owns http://www.greatdentalwebsites.com, a company that allows dentists to create their own website (using a model-glue application).

WHEN: Thurs. May 27, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

I wanted a reminder of why how I pay my rent, own a cellphone and can make a living.

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I'm not sure if everyone is aware of the subject of this posting, but if you're not, please visit this url for more information: http://ria.meetup.com/12/calendar/11859336/

If you're in the bay area and want to get your feet wet with Flex this is the place to be.

Hope to see you there!

Does anyone know of any comparison sites out there that I can view?
Or does anyone know off the top of their head the pros/cons of each?

I know the big glaring PRO of Railo = FREE. But, I've always believed in, "you get what you pay for".

Thanks!

I've installed Aptana Standalone, then downloaded CFBuilder. I was hoping that I could install CFBuilder as an add-on to Aptana, but seems like I can't.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I do the CFBuilder as a standlone then Aptana as a plug-in?

Thoughts?

Thanx

Does anyone know if there's a way (even with an extension) to get DW CS4 to act like Eclipse when highlighting balanced braces?

I love this eclipse feature. Turns my braces red to show where I'm missing closing braces or have too many closing braces. I just wish there was a way to do this with DW CS4. I find Eclipse to be buggy. I get so many "java.lang" errors that it's driving me batty.

I have CFEclipse, Aptana, and SVN plugins installed in Eclipse Ganymede (3.4?), and I'm getting errors each time I switch tabs. Very annoying. I'm not a happy camper with Eclipse. (where is Bolt!!!?!?)

I just started a new job where they use Eclipse. No biggie. They just wanted to use it because of it's Tortoise integration and CFEclipse.

I have yet to embrace Eclipse or CFEclipse for that matter. I'm strictly a DW fan.

Since DW CS4 is on my home machine and I don't employ any versioning control on my home machines (does anyone do this?), I was wondering if there were any pitfalls with using the SVN plugin for DW CS4.

Thanks everyone!

I saw a brand new BMW 3 series blow by me on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge with the license plate: ADBE AIR.

First thing that went through my mind was, "wow...now that's a fan" Then it hit me, "maybe it's an adobe employee who created the technology?" "maybe it's an evangelist for AIR?" "maybe it's just a really big fan of the technology?"

It's no big deal, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of the CF/Flex/AIR world that there's someone out there touting their love for the technology.

Does anyone know of any flex groups (google or yahoo) that are geared towards those just getting their feet wet with Flex?

I'm in the midst of doing some coding in it and have a ton of questions. I'd love to have post some of my questions and get some feedback from the guru's of the flex community.

Thanks