lol gessh Hal doesn't even watch our HOF lists anymore *(sniff)* :( OH well. I'm sure he'll do fine. And I haven't really used the fusebox lists much since they came up with the harebrain FB council paying for membership stuff. Guess we'll have to wait and see. But I would get hals book I bought it and its really good. Most of hals stuff I really like.
Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: RE: Throwing the baby back > Hal asked me to send this reply for him: > > >I wish I knew how to make Fusebox 3 clearer to folks. Part of the > >problem is our fault: there hasn't been enough clear documentation > >available. That is partially solved. John Q and I wrote a book called > >"Discovering Fusebox 3" at techspedition.com. Jeff Peters and Nat > >Papovich wrote one called "Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications". > >We also are working on putting out a specification in the manner of > >Sun's docs, which will be free. > > > >Part of the problem is that Fusebox 3 tackles tougher issues and does > >more than FB2. So we have the age-old trade-off between powerful and > >easy to use. I personally think FB3 does a danged good job of balancing > >the two. A lot of people agree, but obviously, not everyone does. > > > >As to the bad code Michael speaks of, well, I think that's true whether > >one uses FB or not. I don't think that people set out with the > >intention, "Let's write some really crummy code!" They just don't know > >any better. In fact, at one point, none of us knew any better. A good > >deal of this has to be laid at the doorstep of Macromedia's > >documentation, which is, to be highly charitable, "minimalist". > > > >I'm not hoping to convert anyone to Fusebox. As someone pointed out, > >it's not a religion. It may not coincide with the way some people's > >minds work. There has to be a match there or it will always feel odd and > >foreign. When I was involved in Smalltalk, this issue of non-matching > >mental models made it very difficult for some people to really use OO to > >its fullest. It didn't mean those developers were deficient--just that > >OO might not have been the best choice for them. > > > >On the other hand, a large community of people have poked and prodded it > >and all that testing and suggestions have made it, to my mind, an > >excellent way to go. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
