ColdFusion Builder + VSS Plugin + Slow VPN = fail

Today we had one of our typical Wisconsin snowstorms where we got dumped with over a foot of snow overnight. Since I live about 36 miles away from my office I decided to work from home today. Since we have multiple developers working on the same source code we rely on good old Microsoft Visual Source Safe to keep our code safe. Since my current IDE of choice is ColdFusion Builder I also have to use the VSS eclipse plugin.

For whatever reason our bandwith was very limited today and the combination of ColdFusion builder, VSS, and the slow connection made CF Builder completely unusable. Opening a file was extremely slow, and upon the first change to the code the editor would become completely unresponsive and stay that way until I'd go into the Task Manager and kill the process. To fix the problem I tried to disable syntax checking, and not uncheck the option to have CF Builder Build the workspace on startup. Neither of these things seemed to help and since I'm on a pretty tight deadline I had to try something else.

Unfortunately when I installed ColdFusion builder I removed cfeclipse so my only option was to use Dreamweaver. While Dreamweaver is great for design from a coding standpoint It really made me appreciate how nice ColdFusion Builder is. I hope I can convince my company to purchase a license when it becomes available to the public.