ColdFusion supports both approaches and sports a very powerful set of capabilities. Don't really see the issue. I have had no problem staying employed using CF for 12 years on the East Coast. When you start to maintain a web property at more of an enterprise level you find yourself want a more pattern based approach and that inevitably leads to OOP. Frameworks don't slow you down, they speed you up and make a lot of "reinventing the wheel" unnecessary. But of course there's the ramp up time in getting comfortable with it.
That said, its important not be a one trick pony in this work environment. Jeff On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Irvin Gomez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Coming from a design, not programming, background, I embraced Coldfusion > for all the well-known reasons: easy to use, easy to learn, easy, easy...you > get the idea. > > With the advent of more advanced features, everywhere I go I see a big push > for moving Coldfusion and Coldfusion development into very complicated > frameworks and OOP. The usual reason given is that not doing so runs the > risk of rendering the Coldfusion developer obsolete in the job marketplace. > > So, my first question: if the reason for going in the direction suggested > is fear of becoming 'unemployable', wouldn't it make far more sense to move > into something more "popular" like PHP, .Net, etc. right away? Because the > same argument can be used to scare even the most advanced Coldfusion > developers: no matter how good you are, you're still part of a very small > minority and doing coldfusion instead of PHP will make you obsolete sooner > or later. > > Second and final question: what's really wrong with a procedural approach > when dealing with medium or small web sites (which I imagine is the majority > of work entrusted to your average Coldfusion developer)? Is there a > legitimate need to learn what *APPEARS* to be over-complicated and clumsy > frameworks and OOP strategies? > > And, please, know i'm not trying to create a flame war. I'm not pretending > to be an expert (I'm not) in Coldfusion matters. I'm just trying get the > real-world perspective of fellow developers far more experienced and > knowledgeable than me. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
