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It seems that CFEclipse is getting pretty popular– the latest nightly build nightly builds have already been downloaded over 5,100 times which is pretty impressive to me. I’ve been using it for around a year now and it certainly makes me happy. When my Java-fu is finally up to par, I do have a couple of ideas I’d like to try out in it for sure…
I love Eclipse– I also use it for Java and C; soon C++ as well.
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I think I should point out that the 5,150 downloads is the cumulative total for all nightly builds, not just the latest one.
The latest build has been downloaded 406 times so far. That’s quite a long way ahead of any of the other 1.1.18 builds which is not bad considering that it’s only been out a couple of days.
The exact break-down is:
1.1.18.9 - 406
1.1.18.8 - 274
1.1.18.7 - 220
1.1.18.6 - 163
1.1.18.5 - 193
Prior to that we didn’t have different zips for each nightly, they always went into cfeclise_latest.zip which has been downloaded 3830 times.
The difference between these totals and 5150 is made up with various other builds such as the 1.1.17 release which some people couldn’t get from the update site.
I download each nightly build but then I tend to switch to the CVS version and build it myself as I see new fixes being checked in
CFEclipse deserves the popularity it’s gaining - it’s becoming a rock-solid and very useful product! I use it for nearly all my Java and CF coding these days, with DW for UI work and site management (put/get stuff - most of my sites require SFTP).
Thanks for the clarification Spike. I’m still very impressed that the latest build has been downloaded 406 times already as it’s only been out a couple of days.
After switching to CFEclipse I haven’t really touched Dreamweaver. In fact I didn’t even install it when I got a new workstation at work a couple of months back. I miss it every now and then if I need to do a quick and dirty HTML page that doesn’t look horrible without writing some CSS from scratch, but otherwise I’m okay without it. Though I’ve somehow been out of the GUI business for quite awhile… I’ve pretty much been tasked with writing “back-end” and XML/Webservices type stuff for the last 3-4 years for the most part.
I usually do automated builds & deployments in Ant, though I’m not aware of a free, OSS, native SFTP/SCP task for it unfortunately. Seems like you could probably hack something up via a command line client, but that doesn’t seem too productive.