Dave, I say I am sorry because you seem to have made up your mind about my intentions regarding the discussion and based it off of my first thread. Also, I find your last remarks regarding my posts troubling. Thats a dangerous thing for a CTO to think like that. I would think you would be a little bit neutral and not so rash to judgement. I don't think its your intent, but you rather come off as somewhat arrogant. Like I said I think you dont mean to but thats the impression I get.
Thanks, Mike On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > >> Sorry to hear that coming from a CTO of a leading company, but your opinion >> is your opinion and I can respect that. > > I'm not exactly sure what part of that would make you sorry about > something. But whatever I said that made you sorry, I was simply being > honest. I'd prefer to remain honest and make people sorry, than not > remain honest to make them happy. > >> Actually, I have gotten some good perspectives and while I think it could >> be cheaper my aim was to get a discussion >> going about it because I have been away for a while. I just wish you had >> offered a wider perspective on it. > > When you start a conversation, you set the tone for that conversation. > In a conversation about development tools, saying "$300 is crazy > expensive, and it should be cheaper" sets the tone for that > conversation as one that won't turn out to be very useful. But in any > case, I'm not sure what perspective you think I should have offered. > So here's another perspective. > > Development tools are as much a matter of personal taste as measurable > effectiveness. You really have to evaluate them to find out if they > work for you. Some people prefer CF Builder. Others prefer CFEclipse. > Still others prefer Dreamweaver. And so on. If price is the absolutely > most important factor, you'll probably prefer CFEclipse over CFB. > Again, though, you have to take things as they are. If you think CFB > is too expensive, don't buy it. That's really your only option. > > Finally, I note that you've been in two threads today that have been > pretty argumentative. I don't think that's coincidental. I've been in > dozens of threads this week probably, and these two are the only ones > that have turned out that way. I leave it to you to draw your own > conclusions from that. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsit > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:341310 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
