---- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:00 AM Subject: Re: Best Practices
> >Somebody brought up previously that there shouldn't be a central 'best > >practices' document, as it may be intimidating to beginners (if i understood > >correctly). I can see that... > > I really cannot see that. If a person is taught "The best practice" to begin > with, then he has nothing to fear. Following general rule of thumb is a good > thing when coding is at use, and learning it right way the first time through > is by far better than trying to teach an old bad coding dog a new trick or > two. Playing devil's advocate here (somewhat), since I agree that teaching 'right' from the start isn't the worst thing that can happen...one of CF's biggest strenghts is that it allows 'non-programmers' to rapidly deploy powerful web-based applications. While that may be a double-edged sword at times, it's important to remember. To a newbie, <cfif myStringVar is ""> is much easier to comprehend than <cfif len(trim(myStringVar))>. Being somebody who is working with two very very very newbies, I think it would definitely be easier to teach them the simple comparison, versus explaining two functions and the concept of a boolean true/false. So while I do agree that teaching the 'right' way is better than having to unteach a 'wrong' way...remember that a big reason CF is as popular as it is is due to the fact that its learning curve is the bunny hill. charlie ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
