http://www.edwardbeckett.com/Blog/index.cfm Search Engine Optimization - Florida SEO Specialist - SEM Expert - Consultant en-us Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:45:47 -0400 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss edward@edwardbeckett.com edward@edwardbeckett.com http://www.edwardbeckett.com/Blog/index.cfm/2008/10/13/Florida-SEO-187-CFEclipse-187--Aptana-Migration I learned ColdFusion in DreamWeaver. For that matter, I've learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP in DreamWeaver too, so it's been fairly difficult for me to completely switch over to Eclipse even though I actually prefer working in Eclipse more than I do DreamWeaver. For some reason I just feel like I'm 'really' coding when I'm working in Eclipse. I don't feel like a 'serious' programmer when I'm working in DreamWeaver. So, I've decided to share some of the things I've done to make the migration a bit more tolerable. First off I have Eclipse 3.3.1.1 Europa J2EE. I'm sticking with that platform for now because the latest Eclipse release, Ganymede, doesn't play to well with CFEclipse. Then I installed CFEclipse, and added the ColdFusion extensions for Eclipse, the ColdFusion 8 help files for Eclipse, the ColdFusion 8 Syntax dictionaries, and finally plugged CFEclipse in to the CFLib and CFSnippets snippex servers. After that, I installed Aptana. Except for the annoying 'upgrade to pro' messages they send, Aptana's really nice. What I really like about Aptana, is it's great HTML, CSS and JavaScript functionality. Coding web pages in Aptana is a snap, and since I'm a snippets freak, Aptana's snippets view helps me make the transition to Eclipse that much easier. The most important thing I needed from Aptana though, was remote FTP view. Being able to FTP from within the IDE was definitely keeping me tied to DreamWeaver, and by removing the key bindings in Eclipse for CTRL+Shift+U, and CTRL+Shift+D, I was then able to take advantage of the default GET and PUT FTP shortcuts that were so familiar to me from working in DreamWeaver. CTRL+Shift+U (PUT File via FTP ), CTRL+Shift+D (GET File via FTP). I live by these shortcuts. Snippets are a way of life for me in DreamWeaver. Once I create something reusable, it goes in to a snippet folder, and I assign a keyboard shortcut to it. One thing that really sold me on CFEclipse, was the awesome job Mark Drew did on making snippet variable regions. That's too damned cool. For working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript snippets, I've just added the snippets view from Aptana to my CFEclipse perspective and the same with my Aptana view, I added the sniptree view to my Aptana perspective. That way, I can get the best of both worlds. For more customizations, I decided to install JSEclipse for my JavaScript work. JSEclipse is also really nice. So, it may still take me a bit to get used to Eclipse, but I'm going to do my damndest to make it my primary IDE. Frameworks ColdFusion Programming Search Engine Optimization Code Web Development CFEclipse SEO Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:00 -0400 http://www.edwardbeckett.com/Blog/index.cfm/2008/10/13/Florida-SEO-187-CFEclipse-187--Aptana-Migration