For what it's worth...i'm with you 100% re: frameworks. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote:
> > 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:294977 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
