> Is it me, or do most of the topics covered at DevCon seem to > be aimed at designers and not the CF world? A large percentage > of the sessions seem to be focused highly on Flash, Dreamweaver > and other Studio MX products. Or, perhaps it seems this way to > me because I work at somewhere that has no plans to use any of > the Flash integration features of MX or most of the other MX > Studio products?
While many topics cover Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX, I think it would be a mistake to assume that the focus of those products is limited to designers. We do a lot of Flash work here, and while good design is important, it's not really the focus of that work. It's worthwhile to think about Flash the same way that you'd think about other application development tools that allow you to build GUIs - you use them to build front ends (which typically contain presentation logic that can be quite complex) for back-end applications, much like you might have used Visual Basic five years ago (or now, for that matter) to build front ends for client-server applications. As for Dreamweaver MX, it's a text editor, and while it has lots of features that make it more useful to designers than other text editors may be, MM is positioning it to be a "one-size-fits-all" development tool. While many here may argue about the validity of that position, it's certainly the direction in which Dreamweaver is going. And as I start to use it more and more myself, I can understand that position - and I'm certainly no designer. Trust me on that. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.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
