developers are developing intranets and other "behind-a-firewall"
applications. My employer isn't too happy when I want to share the code
I create for them.
I think the programming audience for other languages tend to include
more younger people with freetime on their hands that can create code
without needing to be paid for it.
Another thing is that CF development requires some cash outlay, or at
least it did in the past, and now is kind of late to be entering the
free arena. It's fairly easy to set up a LAMP box and serve some web
pages from your cable modem. Given this, I think that since the setup
has a minimal cost to it, you're more apt to "give away" code.
--
Marlon Moyer, Sr. Internet Developer
American Contractors Insurance Group
phone: 972.687.9445
fax: 972.687.0607
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.acig.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Positive Outlooks in the CF community
>
> I think you touched on something that plagues the CF community. We're
all
> 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
>
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