I agree Robert. Basicaly CF is quicker to develop in and has easier syntax and hence is often the prefference. I find the main reason for this is it is much easier to debug using CF than ASP which is a pain in the backside. I develop in both and the only areas that ASP wins is when you are integrating with COM objects and when you want to manipulate recordset and sql statements as the objects avaliable to you using ADO beat cfquery/storedproc hands down.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Everland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 April 2002 15:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF VS ASP <- let the trolling being 1. PWS? What???? I don't get it. PWS is a web server. Sure ASP is built in, but you can get a FREE Developer version of CF Enterprise and it can work in conjunction with PWS. Where's the problem here? 2. Again if you install the free version of CF on the laptop I doubt this would be an issue. Though I question having an entire web application on a laptop. If anything I would have given them the information they needed in another form and made life easier to upload data to the rest of the application. Sure you pay for CF, but we already knew this. Not everyone can have 75% of the world's desktop so they can just offer things for free. I don't see why you can't program CF in a word processor, matter of fact a lot of my debugging is on notepad when I am offsite. Sure I love CF Studio, but it is in no means required. I don't understand some of the issues you brought up here. Please explain better. Robert Everland III Dixon Ticonderoga Web Developer Extraordinaire -----Original Message----- From: Daye, Marianne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF VS ASP <- let the trolling being I have to agree that CF is easier and faster to use than ASP. However, ASP does have the advantage of PWS. Does CF have an equivalent? I started out with ASP, then used CF for two years, and now I'm using ASP again. I'm not ecstatic about it, but I have found a couple of advantages: 1. Thanks to PWS, if I want to work from home, I can just copy the ASP site to my home computer. With CF I had to work across a cable connection which slowed things down a bit. Of course, I have to access the database over the network either way, but the web files can be retrieved and saved faster with PWS. 2. One of our web sites is not only used by people on-line, but also by field personnel who use laptops, and have to upload and download data. Thanks to PWS and MSDE, they will be able to use the same ASP pages as the on-line users, while using DTS to transfer data back and fourth. In a similar situation with CF, we had to develop a separate Access application for the field team members. Some other more obvious advantages is that ASP is free and can be developed in a simple word processor, if need be. Microsoft is also a huge name, whether you like them or not, and it doesn't hurt to know how to user their technology. Marianne Daye Programmer/Analyst -----Original Message----- From: Thane Sherrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF VS ASP <- let the trolling being At 12:06 PM 4/3/02 -0800, David Schmidt wrote: >If he's willing to fork the bucks for the training. Grab hold, hang on, and >take what you can learn. A cold hearted approach (but I think wise) would be to get the training paid for, and then move to a company that is more reasonable. T ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.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
