Hands up CF people who still write spaghetti code?  I certainly don't MVC
and OO all the way!

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I dare you to do it barry. write in Notepad vs VS Studio 2008...
>
> You're on crack if you think VS Studio isn't one of the most power IDE"s on
> the planet. I'll deflect and absorb a lot of crap around being all things
> Microsoft, but i've meet die hard Java fanbois through to Adobe staffers
> whom have all agreed - Visual Studio is powerful. Now if it's not your cup
> of tea, that's cool but "spagetti code" ... you = epic fail :)
>  btw do you ever stop whining about Microsoft? you grumpy muso :) heheh.
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> is this turning into a Frameworks Vs tools debate?
>>
>>
>> Imagine you're used to using both. if you had to loose one, which one
>> would you loose?
>>
>> personally, I'd rather write code using a framework with Notepad than
>> spaghetti code with VS2005.
>>
>>
>> (and Scott: there's a lot of similarities between the core .NET
>> "framework" and CF's abstraction of it's underlying Java code)
>>
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>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Rae Buerckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > Lol.. Scott you do make me laugh, in a good way ;)
>> >
>> > The difference is the frameworks in CF are about community and are open
>> > source, and Flex Builder has a plugin for CF Frameworks as does the
>> Eclipse
>> > IDE :)  Which makes the frameworks part of the tool.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > R
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I wasn't there but i never missed an oppurtunity to rub his nose in
>> that
>> >> one... chuck says hi btw :)
>> >>
>> >> .NET = Framework that's the zinger in this convo.. We agree frameworks
>> >> rock, we also agree that tools play a roll in keeping the code
>> maitenance in
>> >> a happy state.. point is, if you're writing a framework to keep your
>> >> codebase maintainable when a tool could in theory take over the burden,
>> then
>> >> what problem is being solved and who should own it tommorow (you own it
>> >> today, but it shouldn't stop there).
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Rae Buerckner <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Lol... I remember that breakfast Barry!
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Barry Beattie <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> a fair point, Blair
>> >>>>
>> >>>> the other side of the equation of course is too much hand-holding
>> that
>> >>>> it gets in the way, either by abstracting too much of the detail so
>> >>>> you don't know what's happening under the covers - or - it just plain
>> >>>> gets it wrong in edge-cases (special headers needed in CF webservices
>> >>>> spring to mind)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've still got a great memory of a WebDU breakfast a couple of years
>> >>>> back where Chuck was showing how easy it was to build an 
>> >>>> ASP.NET<http://asp.net/>
>> >>>> application in VS2005 ... which promptly broke when he ran it and he
>> >>>> had to go back to rebuild it and apply some setting he'd forgotten
>> ...
>> >>>> happens to the best of us.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> but this isn't helping Adam much...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Adam, if you're still reading this, revisit the CFC dev website to
>> get
>> >>>> a feel for how important "it depends" means when someone like Sean
>> >>>> Corfield says it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> simple things will get you most of the way there
>> >>>>  - keep your view totally separate from your data access code
>> >>>>  - identify the "Gold" code (ie: it costs a fortune to make) and
>> >>>> protect that "investment" (eg: from change + retesting)
>> >>>>  - you can probably get away with having DAO's for single record
>> >>>> access (CRUD) and "gateway" CFC's for the rest. At least it's
>> >>>> something. Lots of choices to join up the middle bits
>> >>>>  - look at what Transfer can give you as a way to get things
>> happening
>> >>>> quickly for data access
>> >>>>  - queries are more convenient (and faster) than arrays of objects,
>> >>>> structs easier to pass around than single objects
>> >>>>  - you gotta know the rules before you break them but breaking them
>> is
>> >>>> OK
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> >
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>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Scott Barnes
> http://www.mossyblog.com
> >
>

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