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.
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That is what sounds good to me. A single place where I can go and see what is available as well as review what other developers have thought about this code/product/best practice. I can easily imagine a mix of commercial products and homegrown/open source options. What this is stemming from is that I don't often have the time to do major research every time I need to do something. I know that I often write code that is re-inventing the wheel, but sometimes that is just easier then trying to find available options, analyze them to see if they might fit my needs and then give them a trial. A site that simplified the first two steps I think would be very helpful.
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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.
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Just what I said. They are hard to find if they exist. Also there is almost no compare and contrast information of different products available. I agree about MM's Exchange. It is slow, un-informative and just plain a P.I.T.A. (not the nice unleavened bread either). I don't think I have ever successfully found a useful product through the Exchange. I have gotten a couple of usefully tools from MM (ntSecurity.cfc is a backbone tool in our intranet), but they have come from direct links either from resources such as HOF or MM's technotes.
Now, I just wish I had the time to set up something like this. I've wanted to do so for sometime now.
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