First job out of high school they had me work with FrontPage 98 and IIS. What was really funny is that they wanted me to do ASP with these tools and they made it so that the only way that you could get to the sites on the IIS server was through FrontPage and they used Front Page extensions. STUPID!!! It was the sorriest thing that I ever worked on. For one thing FrontPage 98 was never designed to really handle ASP code and the way that it handled my ASP code was to eat it. I didn't immediately get my hands on a real editor so I used Notepad to code everything. Then to make matters worst, my boss kept on viewing my work with FrontPage 98 and it would eat my code and then he would complain that something that I just got working didn't work. FrontPage 2000 was a little better about not eating code, but it is definitely not what you would want to use for ASP development. They also had chronic problems with the IIS server getting all hosed up. They tried reloading the server, getting a fresh new server, reloaded with the latest updates until they hit Win2k and FP2000, not allowing anything else to be loaded on the server even if the task you where working on absolutely required it and the server still chronically hoses itself up. I'm glad that I develop under CF now and I didn't hesitate one moment to switch over.
-----Original Message----- From: Justin Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: "Why aren't there more CF programmers out there?" A higher up said "If ColdFusion was so easy to learn why aren't there more CF programmers out there?" So what do I tell him? How many CF Developers are there? How many sites use CF? Is there a Macromedia rep in the house? He thinks FrontPage is the way to go.... Let the games begin! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
