ColdFusion IDE Survey

It's been a while since I've posted about software development or ColdFusion, but I have a few blog posts percolating away about the design of Web-based software. In the meantime, it looks like Adobe is finally going to do something about the craptacular state of development tools for my language of choice for Web-based apps: ColdFusion.

ColdFusion (CF) has long been in need of a truly capable, responsive, rock solid editor for the language and the frameworks that go along with that language. Eclipse and CFEclipse are great projects, but they're still rough around the edges in many ways (hello, no drag + drop?!). Many vendors make excellent plug-ins for the Eclipse platform that really assist the development process, but no commercial products exist for real ColdFusion development. The team behind CFEclipse has done a great job on a volunteer basis, but more is really needed. And Adobe should step up the plate. They've done it for Flex/ActionScript, so they can do it for ColdFusion.

Adobe just opened a survey about editors for CF. It's worth the time of anyone who's a CF developer to fill it out and help them make a tool that will help you in the long run.