The Benores in DC!

Fellow ColdFusion coders! I have launched a separate blog for my discussions of ColdFusion related issues. For ColdFusion posts, go to askBenore.com. Also, please follow me on twitter @askBenore. If you are not a CF coder, but want to keep up with me … stick with benore.com, our family blog site.

There has been some posts in the developer blogosphere about
the persona of the typical ColdFusion developer. So I have
join the discussion of what a developer profile look likes.

• 30 years old
• Married for 5 years
• I drive a 2004 4-door Ford F-150 Lariat
• We bought a new brick two-story house late 2005. 5 bedrooms, 2 people? Room to grow!
• Avid PC user. Tried the Mac in the pre-Intel days but figured Microsoft would steal all the good stuff eventually.
• Have only seen 4 of the current Oscar nominees.
• I love pretty much all TV.
• Hobbies? Who has time?
• Music – everything from Frank Sinatra to Toby Keith.
• Have been developing for about 8 years.
• I have both a bachelor and master degree.

One of my favorite development tools is CFEclipse. It is a plugin to Eclipse, a cross-platform IDE. Adobe also uses Eclipse for it's flex development software. Now I know Adobe developers use CFEclipse (I am sure they still use Dreamweaver too – as do I). I also know Adobe supports Eclipse. I just wonder why Adobe does not do more to support CFEclipse and its sole developer Mark Drew. This is a guy who spends his free time helping make ColdFusion development better through CFEclipse. Why should Adobe care? Because geeky developers like me yearn for an IDE that is code centric and not WYSIWYG centric. So Adobe, please go throw some cash at CFEclipse. Or perhaps even pay for Mr. Drew's travel cost to an Adobe conference here in the states. Hey you could even be like Google and pay developers to develop open source software.

For more on this discussion visit Mark Drew's Site.