Favorite CFBuilder Feature of the Week

Posted At : September 12, 2010 7:08 PM
Related Categories: Web Dev

Just wanted to mention my favorite CFBuilder feature this week. I don't see this one mentioned very often.

File Compare

Did you know that you can compare similar files with CFBuilder? Select two files, right click and select Compare With > Each Other. This proved handy this week when I found out a client was changing a file that I had worked on. They both had needed changes and were out of sync. I was quickly able to find the small differences.

Also built in is Compare With > Local History. Very basic versioning, but still handy. I know I have come into work after a 4 day weekend wondering "now where did I leave off last week..."

What are your favorite features which you rarely read others write about?

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Nice, but those are actually Eclipse features.
Workbench User Guide > Tasks >
Comparing resources http://bit.ly/cgW68e
Workbench User Guide > Concepts > Workbench >
Local history http://bit.ly/d32vCx

# Posted By mike henke | 9/12/10 8:51 PM

Ah ha! Thanks Mike!

# Posted By joshua | 9/12/10 8:59 PM

cfBuilder have great Tools, but you can not rapid develope with ColdFusion :-( What it need ia a shortCut/Key (like F5) to refresh the build-in-browserview. It is inaceptable that you have to use you mouse to click on a refreshbutton :-((( cfEclipse have this "feature"!!!

# Posted By Reinhard Jung | 9/12/10 9:23 PM

Josh,
The "Now where did I leave off?" is Mylyn's bread-n-butter. I presented a cfmeetup about this a while back, and if you didn't see it, I invite you to watch: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p29051465/

I even use mylyn for my own local play-around development, even if I'm not using an issue tracker, precisely because it makes it so easy to get back "into context".

# Posted By Marc Esher | 9/12/10 10:40 PM

@Reinhard Jung - are you talking about viewing your code in a browser? I would suggest alt-tab to the browser, then f5 see the change, and then alt-tab back to the editor. Honestly, I have always felt browsing web pages through eclipse kinda klunky.

# Posted By mike henke | 9/13/10 10:34 AM

Ashamed to admit I hadn't seen it until just now. I am enjoying the drinking game though ;-)

# Posted By Joshua | 9/13/10 10:35 AM

@Reinhard, Window > Preferences > General > Workspace > Check "refresh automatically".