"I guess at this point I'd have to ask about working practices: How many folks think of a "web site" or a "web application" when they're editing / creating new files? Do folks really find it a stretch to go from that concept to an actual site/project in their IDE?"
I always work within a project. But I also understand that at times you just want to create a chunk of code to experiment on. Usually when I am doing this I am trying to learn something and not actually building a 'site' or what I am experimenting with will eventually be used in a site but not in the exact form of my experimental code. However, since I do experimental code, I want to keep track of it for later reference so I created a project just for experimental code. So even when I am just creating a file to see what happens with some random code, I still am within a project. Projects in Eclipse are no mystery and they DO NOT get in the way of your file system access. An Eclipse project is nothing more than a portion of your file system that has a hidden Eclipse project file so Eclipse knows that that portion of the regular file system is a project. Since my laptop runs CF/Apache I have a webroot. All my projects (sites, experimental code, etc) are in my webroot. This means that CF can process my code that is in any project. If I need to have a proper URL for actual site testing I create Apache Virtual Hosts and add entries to my hosts file. I have domains on my laptop such as http://www.trunkful.dev. This way testing each site/project is very easy and isolated from the others. When I am not using a project I simply close it and Eclipse ignores it until I reopen it meaning that having 20 or so projects won't hurt performance if you only have the one(s) you are working on open. To close a project right click on it and select close. Then a month from now when you need to reopen it you do not have to do an import. Its there and just needs to be opened. Setting up your local dev environment like this (or similar) is a simple task and usually makes life much easier as a programmer. Like Sean, I do not understand the resistance to projects/sites etc. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator Wil Genovese Consulting 651-894-4238 wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On May 31, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > I guess at this point I'd have to ask about working practices: > > How many folks think of a "web site" or a "web application" when > they're editing / creating new files? > Do folks really find it a stretch to go from that concept to an actual > site/project in their IDE? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
