He's now an independent consultant and trainer living in south central Kentucky, and he runs the Online ColdFusion Meetup as well as the UGTV library of recorded CF presentations from speakers around the world, as well as the repository listing hundreds of tools and resources for CFers. He's presented nearly 200 talks to hundreds of developer conferences and user groups worldwide. A contributor to nearly a dozen books (all 7 volumes of the CF10, 9, and 8 Web Application Construction Kit books by Ben Forta et al, the ColdFusion Anthology, the CFMX Bible, and others), Charlie's also a certified Advanced CF Developer and past Instructor for each release since CF 4.
He's written nearly 100 articles for the Adobe CF Community Portal, CFDJ, FusionAuthority Quarterly Update, Adobe DevCenter, CommunityMX and more, as well as hundreds of blog entries. :-)įor more content like this from Charlie Arehart:Ī veteran server troubleshooter (for ColdFusion, Lucee, Tomcat, and more), Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and recognized Adobe Community Professional.
So if you're using Dreamweaver, or still holding on to good ol' HomeSite+/HomeSite/CF Studio, and are not yet using CFBuilder (including its free Express edition) or CFEclipse, or Sublime, Coda, IntelliJ, NotePad++, or any of the many other editors/IDEs that support CFML), then check out this updates page and get your DW/HS/CF updates groove on. You will also find the "ColdFusion Admin Server Components" for use with CFBuilder.Īnd near the bottom of the page is the old "ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse" which offered some features now in CFBuilder as an available free plugin (such as debugging and RDS features), as well as ColdFusion 8 Help Files for Eclipse (though most people would rely on help files from CFEclipse, if they were not using CFBuilder.) You can read more about these tools in a section about them in the CF 8 docs. NET Integration Service Installers, SharePoint Integration Webparts, Server Manager WAR Files, and LiveCycle Data Services Components.
While you're visiting that CF downloads page, note as well that there are other available downloadable tools for use with CF in the various latest versions (CF 8, 9, and 10), including the Report Builder, SOLR Standalone Installers. Other available CF-related downloadable tools offered there (And no, there are no updates for CF 9 or above, nor will there likely ever be, as HS is no longer sold/supported.) Just see the instructions in the readme file included in the zip.
You can use the Dreamweaver extensions with any version of Dreamweaver that supports extensions (mxp files).Īnd you can use the HomeSite+ update for any version of that editor, as well as the related products, HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio. Adobe ColdFusion 9 Extensions for Dreamweaver.Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 Extensions for Dreamweaver.Adobe ColdFusion 10 Extensions for Dreamweaver.The downloads page offers the following (with a brief discussion and downloadable file for each): They're at (not to be confused with the hotfix downloads page. You will find these various updates at the ColdFusion "downloads" page. Specifically, you can find updates for Dreamweaver for 10, 9.0.1, 9, and 8 and you can find updates for HomeSite+/HomeSite/CF Studio for CF8. So about DW and HS, the news (not so new) is that there are available free updates for these editors with respect to the later versions of CF. (If as a reader of this entry, you'd want to make sure people know about still other editor/IDE alternatives, I will address that briefly also before we're through.) Well here's good news, that I find many don't seem to know: you don't need to put up with a lack of support for tags and functions for more recent CF versions! If you may still be using Dreamweaver or HomeSite+ (or its older brother, HomeSite, or its older uncle, ColdFusion Studio), you may find that the tag insight, tag help, tag completion, and other features are not recognizing newer ColdFusion tags and functions, if perhaps you have updated to later versions of ColdFusion since installing those editors. And I may revise the content as necessary. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Some content may be outdated-though not necessarily.