Well, the answer to be would be your background. DW is a good design tool but it lacks methodologies, it lacks design principles and last but not least is not an IDE for serious development.
1) with your background the design patterns that most frameworks offer provide easy and quick coding with less effort to get things done with, but this has nothing to do with Dreamweaver. 2) DW only allows for checking of code out of a repository, and locks it. I haven't seend CS3 yet but when it comes to branching and merging of developers code it does not support that. 3) Agile and TDD is no where near supported in DW3, and someone with your background would realise that DW doesn't allow for these at all. but one thing I will agree with is frameworks do not fit into every situation, and that is why there are so many of them. Believe it or not when you design your application to achieve what you want it to do then you are creating a framework for that application. When Mach-II first became popular, we had a framework in place that allowed us to get a CMS, email campaign, and very complex master / details running very quickly because of the framework we developed. It took SQL code away from us as the framework took care of it, so we did not need to code anything. Just provide the XML and business logic needed to get the app done. Now in a sense this is not an MVC, or Coldspring or ORM approach but it worked well. But it was a framework, it did not suit every design need for a website but it did enough for us to get jobs done faster than anyone else could have. But DW as I said, serioulsy has no concept of true SVN (Source versioning) it works on check out check in, DW does not support test units and running with a TDD environment and it certainly doesn't have the necessary tools to do DB design etc. I guess what I am saying is that if you are so educated, why are you asking such a question. Eclipse provides all and more, with the help of plugins. It provides the ability to switch to a different branch to work on different version and allows for very strong TDD and agile porgramming with the help of plugins like mylar, jira and others. but hey if you thin you can design efficent patterns in DW then so be it, who are we to tell you otherwise. Thats why you did not need to ask...... On 5/4/07, Jeff Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With your background I am suprised you use DW, I would have thought > > Eclipse > > and SVN would be your bag. > > If I may ask, why? I hand code mostly in Dreamweaver's CodeView. > > I should probably preface this entire conversation by noting that I run > the > interactive department of a medium sized Advertising Agency. So our goals > here are probably way more "graphically" and "brand" oriented. I work with > an entire art department that delivers artwork to me in PNG form that I > simply bring directly into Fireworks and slice up, moving it then directly > into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver links to my PNGs so any changes to the > images > automatically open up Fireworks and take me straight to the master PNG > file. > We've just been working with the Macromedia workflow as long as I > remember, > and it's never given us pause to sit and think about any type of > "framework". > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277071 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
