Hehe. Sanity is *such* a fun concept. And I have a love/hate relationship with "labels", even if they're "good" ones, like "sane". So... Yeehaw! =)
If we were doing a framework, I'd say it would be important to be uniform, and stick to the framework, but what we're talking about (sorta- communication is another fun concept) is stuff that brings people together, so picking something that splits people up isn't as good as providing the means to unite them (by showing how the shared X translates to the personal Y they're used to, sorta). This is core functionality that people need in many arenas, so requirements are something that should be considered carefully. Like, I realized that if I did these custom tags I've been doing for Railo in a certain manner, they're usable for Railo, OpenBD, and Adobe CF. The same exact code! It's harder than just writing for X and saying "if you want this, you need X", but I really dig the flexibility that extra work provides. And the *adaptability*, even. It should be really easy for people to adapt these things, as so many questions are answered with "it depends", ya know? And by taking these adaptability needs in hand from the get-go -- by actually adapting these things for various uses and environments -- we add more usefulness without an equal increase in cost. Relatively. (Relativity is an interesting concept too =]p.) Another example is the CFML formatting stuff I began working on for CFEclipse. I could have written it so it only worked inside Eclipse, but I thought "this is useful outside of Eclipse too". It was more work to make it so, but I'm aiming to be useful, above all else, I reckon. So it was worth it, to me. Eh. Until we have brain linkage (or realize it's there already, perhaps), these forms of communication will have to do. Sorry so sloppy, so to speak. =) :DeN -- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. William James On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Carey Duryea wrote: > Den, > sometimes when you talk , i'm like "whata reyou crazy" hahha but > seriously i'm obviously not as familar with teh variety of frameworks as you > are, but i'm thinking , how in the world can you accomidate all of them. i > thought picking one would create some kind of uniformity in the community we > create > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
