While the petmarket is an example application, I don't think it is very reflective of what the average CFer is building. I would think that brochure style site or an interactive forms application is significantly more common. However, I can't be sure, which is why I suggested we come up with our own requirements.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mike Nimer > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:54 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] bakeoff > > Why not use the same app the vendors use. Everyone can build their own > version of petmarket. > > ---nimer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 8:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] bakeoff > > I don't think it is possible to mitigate this variation. All this > bakeoff would do is provide metrics for comparison. Each metric would > have a different level of importance to each person evaluating the > bakeoff. Further, I would suspect that once the results of the bakeoff > are in, others would attempt to recreate the results producing more > data. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > > Of Sean A Corfield > > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] bakeoff > > > > On Saturday, Mar 29, 2003, at 20:50 US/Pacific, Matt Liotta wrote: > > > The idea would be to take one set of application requirements and > then > > > build an application using each of these techniques. Metrics like > time > > > taken to develop, lines of code, performance, etc could all be > captured > > > for each. Obviously, developing all of these applications would take > a > > > considerable amount of time. However, if many people were interested > we > > > could each take one technique each and then share our results. > > > > I agree that it would be interesting to do this but I can see a flaw > in > > the process: different CFers take different amounts of time to solve > > the same problem, even using the same approach, and we'd also likely > > get code that performed wildly differently. > > > > Of course, this is true, generally, across IT and not limited to CFers > > - someone with twenty years software engineering, a CS degree and who > > is fluent in half a dozen languages is going to produce radically > > different results to a self-taught programmer who has used mainly one > > language for even half a dozen years. > > > > How do you suggest mitigating that variation? > > > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > > -- Margaret Atwood > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > > in the message of the email. > > > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
