RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-06 Thread Jeff Small
, May 04, 2007 11:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) On 5/3/07, Jeff Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a Frameworks Overview needs to be added to the Max conference this year. Not a debate. Not a discussion or a Birds of a Feather... but a nice, healthy

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-06 Thread Jeff Small
Yeah probably a little... Nah, I didn't take them that way. Education is completely different from daily work experience, as I'm sure you're well aware. As I previously indicated, we're just a medium sized advertising agency. We don't build CMSes, we don't build enterprise applications. We

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-05 Thread Dawson, Michael
I guess what I am saying is that if you are so educated, why are you asking such a question. 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.. Damn. That was kind of harsh. M!ke On 5/4/07, Jeff

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Scott
Yeah probably a little... On 5/6/07, Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess what I am saying is that if you are so educated, why are you asking such a question. but hey if you thin you can design efficent patterns in DW then so be it, who are we to tell you otherwise. Thats

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On 5/3/07, Jeff Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a Frameworks Overview needs to be added to the Max conference this year. Not a debate. Not a discussion or a Birds of a Feather... but a nice, healthy overview of the frameworks available to ColdFusion programmers, and their strengths and

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-04 Thread Andrew Scott
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

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
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

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
Hi Jeff, A very quick answer is that if i came and worked for your company would i know on the first day which snippets did what? Would I conform to your standards? Frameworks allow people to pick up code and run with it quickly and conform to rules set out with in the framework. Well,

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
And surely, like most if not all CS grads you would have learned a design pattern in whatever OO language you were taught? A framework probably was shown as well, and it's benefits? Not really. Design patterns, sure. But frameworks? Never. I graduated from CompSci around the mid to late 90s.

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
In short, there's nothing you NEED a framework for, but there are a lot of smart developers out there, and I generally prefer to trust code that someone else wrote (and tested, exercised, and then released to a large community) over code that I wrote (with no other vetting). Especially for

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Richard Kroll
and wherever you get your job programming, you'll learn that they probably have procedures in place that you'll have to learn in order to work well with the team that you'll join. I guess that was our framework discussion. I think this all depends on what you are attempting to do, as each

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
Considering they didn't include FLEX in dreamweaver CS3 I'm now starting to ask myselft the same thing. http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/features/allfeatures/ Can I be honest here for a second? This is *precisely* why I asked this question. The lack of Flex support in

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Scott Stewart
Message- From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) 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

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Dawson, Michael
] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) 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

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Casey Dougall
On 5/3/07, Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't have to explain why you love DW over Eclipse. DW is pretty darn awesome and I'm not scared to spread the word, either. I, too, live in DW code view and shun frameworks. Hi, I'm Mike and I'm a DreamWeaver user. + 1 -

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
You shouldn't have to explain why you love DW over Eclipse. DW is pretty darn awesome and I'm not scared to spread the word, either. I, too, live in DW code view and shun frameworks. Hi, I'm Mike and I'm a DreamWeaver user. I'm sorry. I honestly didn't want those comments to come across

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Barney Boisvert
On 5/3/07, Jeff Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry. I honestly didn't want those comments to come across that way. I was just *really* wondering if what I wasn't already doing *was* in fact, a framework, and if, during the course of the way I and my group programs, is a framework worth

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Clausen
Jeff, I didn't take your comments that way. I do think that comparing usage of a Framework to your company's Dreamweaver team workflow is an apples to oranges comparison, though.There's nothing mutually exclusive about the two. One provides a common lanuguage for your development

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Jeff Small
I didn't take your comments that way. [snip] Jon, I didn't wanna repeat all you wrote because I just wanted to add that it was a great reply. I totally see where you and Barney are coming from... both yours and Barney's comments made absolutely perfect sense. I get the subtleties of a

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Dawson, Michael
can't wait to roll out a production web site with Scorpio! I wasn't picking on Jeff. I'm on his side. :-) M!ke -Original Message- From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) You

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
Regarding all the future of web development. RIAs are nice. Personally, I'm into the request-response mode, with maybe a touch of AJAX. We are wanting our students to begin using mobile phones to access our web sites. Therefore, I can't rely on Flash-based forms in most cases. Are you

RE: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-03 Thread Dawson, Michael
Are you finding that you still need to customize your mobile interfaces anyway? At a certain point, if you have to build multiple interfaces, you might as well use RIAs for one, and simplified HTML for another. There are a lot of HTML interfaces that just don't work well on a phone. Not quite

Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Jeff Small
We've (our development team) been using Dreamweaver, and we use it internally for checking in/out documents. We write CFCs and utilize Dreamweaver's Components tab. We use store all of our most used code in snippets that we all share, and we're all trained Computer Science graduates (not

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
-Original Message- From: Jeff Small To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed May 02 22:26:01 2007 Subject: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) We've (our development team) been using Dreamweaver, and we use it internally for checking in/out documents. We write CFCs and utilize Dreamweaver's Components tab

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Jeff Small To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed May 02 22:26:01 2007 Subject: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) We've (our development team) been using Dreamweaver, and we use it internally

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Nick Tong
Hi Jeff, A very quick answer is that if i came and worked for your company would i know on the first day which snippets did what? Would I conform to your standards? Frameworks allow people to pick up code and run with it quickly and conform to rules set out with in the framework. HTH On

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Barney Boisvert
Most of the benefits from a framework (at least in my view) come from the bookkeeping that the framework takes care of automatically. For example, ColdSpring manages dependency injection, so I don't have to write any code to do that. ColdSpring also provides AOP functionality which provides a

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
: Nick Tong To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed May 02 22:34:44 2007 Subject: Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks) Hi Jeff, A very quick answer is that if i came and worked for your company would i know on the first day which snippets did what? Would I conform to your standards? Frameworks allow people

Re: Can I ask a question? (RE: Frameworks)

2007-05-02 Thread Casey Dougall
On 5/2/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With your background I am suprised you use DW, I would have thought Eclipse and SVN would be your bag. Considering they didn't include FLEX in dreamweaver CS3 I'm now starting to ask myselft the same thing.