i dont think thats why you werent chosen mike. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> > >
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