I'm just venting my frustrations while tweaking a potential blog post. Ignore if you want.
I'm really contemplating a blog post about how slighted I feel about not being invited to the cfml advisory committee. I was on past committees and we did a lot for the direction of the language. I've done a lot to support the language. So why was I not chosen? 3 reasons. frameworks, oop, and blog posts. I stopped blogging a while ago after being attacked over my views on altering a framework for a client. They needed speed and an alteration of the framework was the only way to go. I told people about it and the firestorm was insane. I took it badly. Strike one for not blogging since. I'm not a framework guy as I feel they are overused and can be an unnecessary bottleneck. Too much going on to be really useful in many cases. An app should be tight, not tight sitting on another layer, no matter how tight it is. Strike two for not going with the framework always flow. OOP is fine and good as a concept but being bound to it in all places, ways and times is insane. Use the parts that are useful and ignore the rest. Evaluate what you need when you needed. Strike three for not following the true OO religion. Do I expect this to change anytime soon? Nope. When I expressed my feelings to someone on the committee I was told that they wanted to keep it small while they were doing their job. Ouch. Another hit to me which results in my lethargic-ness in posting new concepts and ideas. I've got a ton of articles just sitting in Google Docs almost ready to roll which I never released just because I never felt I should. I've got a ton of tiny code snippets that seem so simple when you see them yet few would think of them because they are so simple. But why bother. Simple is not what gets someone somewhere. It's big, complex, obfuscated code that gets you the girls, fame, and fortune. Until I get a fast chat from someone who needs a single line of code to make his whole application work. But still, who cares. And whining about not being included will not change anything and will actually go far in making sure I'm never on the committee if/when they add more members. --- Yeh, it needs to be reordered and cleaned up but it basically has the concepts. Venting does more harm than good, especially when done before a 2 day, no internet holiday. But how much lower can my 'stock' fall? -- Michael Dinowitz (http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdinowitz) President: House of Fusion (http://www.houseoffusion.com) Publisher: Fusion Authority (http://www.fusionauthority.com) Adobe Community Expert / Advanced Certified ColdFusion Professional Si, soy el senor "chico malo" para todos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294974 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
