about "best of breed" or at least "I can do it better". Other languages and
technologies have massive libraries of free, finished apps. And it's not
just complicated things like forums, CMS, knowledge bases, etc. It's little,
amazingly simple things like books catalogers, recipie books, drink recipie
books, simple contact books, etc.
This CF community is really good at sharing code snippets or parts. But
there just doesn't seem to be a wealth of just simple little finished stuff
being poured into the community. I remember back to my Hypercard days, the
old Info-Mac site had shitloads of stuff that people would knock out for
themselves and then just upload in case someone else could use it. Most of
the stuff was crap, but the community was so active that it didn't matter
because there was usually a gem in there.
I know some of those are out there. But they're hidden in people's personal
sites, or worse on blogs. Blogs are the worst place for code repositories.
They aren't about aggregating and cataloging, they are about a single
person's thoughts at that particular time. They are linear and free-form.
The trick is to build a site like Download.com or VersionTracker.com that is
easy enough to use. Macromedia's Exchange is a perfect example of what not
to do.
So that's my $.02 on the one thing the community can do more to help CF. Of
course, a very cheap server or hosting for the _average_ person to be able
to actually use the things in the repository would be necesssary. (A not at
all subtle hint to MM.)
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Skinner"
> There have been some good suggestions here, and I would like to add one
more to the discussion. I think we, as the community, can step forward on
this one. What would be very helpful for me, is a site (HOF maybe?) that
consolidates best of breed CF concepts. It would be nice to go someplace and
find out the best forum package, WYSIWYG editor, security practices,
configuration options, ect, ect, ect. I don't know about others, but I
would like more information about a tool or control then how many times it
has been downloaded.
>
> Just a seed of an idea before I get started on the day's work.
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