From: Howard Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:15 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re:Survey: Open Source CF Stuff
> But I find CF so easy to write, so quick
> to develop with, that other people's code
> is rarely that useful to me.
You bring up a very interesting point. A large portion of the CF code I
download tends to be not so useful, and I end up disassembling it and
running whatever function it encompasses, directly on my model.
Case in point, the ImageMagick tag (alagad.com) The tags wern't working 100%
as I wanted them to, so I poked around to find out why. Well, it turns out
all it does is assemble command-line parameters and call it via cfexecute.
Obviously I can do that myself, so I did and it works better. It's a great
tag, but not really a great solution.
I think a lot of it has to do with the scope of the item. CFLib.org has
small functions that I don't try to change or circumvent. Then, for large
projects, sometimes I change the look but that's it.
The problem is with those mid-sized projects. They aren't a whole
encompassing solution, so you have to hack them to pieces.
-nathan strutz
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