Dave wrote > But I think there's an important difference in expectations between > providing services and selling tools. My customers expect me to know > how to do things right - to understand how my tools work. When you buy > a tool, you are expected to know how to use the tool, and there is > only so much the tool vendor can do to prevent you from misusing the > tool.
Dave as usual you are right ;-). BUT my counterpoint is your rightness in this point doesn't matter to the overall outcome: CF is still getting sucker-punched. And you cannot stop it from happening by pointing out - to the media who is delivering the blows - that someone else deserves that fist to the face. You further cannot stop it by insisting that only grownups buy and use the product. I had a retail product that needed a default url and a default path hand-input into Application.cfm, along with a couple other settings that decided how the app behaved. How tough can it be to type in a path on your own server? That you know already? And I wrote tons of comments into the file's code so it had a complete instruction manual inside, with examples, options... the works. All the 'developer' had to do was spend two minutes in that file and poof they had a fully working app. 3 how that went... "I have to type whut? Where? Why? A path you say? What line is that on?" The fact is to BE a developer in the first place they needed the skill to edit a CF file. It didn't matter. I sucked it up, acknowledged reality, wrote the installer and ... problem solved.. CF is in that boat now. --m@-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:358184 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
