On May 16, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Christopher Jordan wrote: > Each project should be required to have a white paper of sorts > describing the technologies used, the programming methods used, the > time > it took to develop, the version of CF they used (BD, Railio, Smith > Project, whatever), anything that was super-easy implement (or just > plain super-cool) that wouldn't have been as easy (or cool) had it > been > coded in another language. That super-cool thing might in fact be that > the language allowed the developers to step outside of the CF box, > grab > hold of another languages technology (a COM object for instance or a > Java Bean, or whatever) and integrate it seamlessly and without > breaking > a sweat!
Chris, I'm all for documentation and whitepapers. In my mind, though, developers having fun making fun things with cool technology is the biggie. Maybe a simple post-project survey that takes the form of a whitepaper in display would work though. If the project team wants to extend beyond that, they could choose that. Once it starts to feel like work, though, some of the energy and enthusiasm gets lost in the to-dos. With Rails, for example, you hear developers saying things like "Developing for the web is fun again." IMHO, part of the fun is because it's new and most of us who develop like digging in and learning new things. Otherwise we wouldn't have chosen to work in a profession where everything we produce is in a permanent state of evolution. Sites like RIAForge and CFLib are great - for developers. The disconnect is that those great code examples are going to be viewed only by those who have already made the choice to use Coldfusion as a development platform. > Sounds like a cool idea to me. I'm up for chippin' in on a small > project > as long as I can still get my bread and butter work done. :o) Amen to that. It's not like I exactly need another project right now, which is kind of why I wanted to throw this out there to the CF community. If there's interest, I'd be willing to devote my extra time and resources to making it happen. If not, that's OK too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278391 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
