On second thought... they are doing a good job... rough day... but it is to me at least alienating that they don't use their own tools exclusively. 40,000 page site... I actually doubt that. (On a dynamic site, developer to developer, do they actually maintain 40,000 templates pages... or is that the "dynamic translation".)
I will give in with this thought... if they are continuing the COOL tools, doing things like making dreamweaver a coding tool and not just more of a coding tool than before... which the appear to be doing. I don't dispise them for this... but it is definitely noticed. Summary... if Microsoft put a section of their website up and it ended with a .cfm extension... that would be on all the MM blogs in two days. (Food for thought.) Thanks for the perspective though... although I doubt the 40,000 pages bit, I conceed that the magnitude is great. My biggest concession is based on the fact that Allaire inherited many of these issues. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [CFCDev] More CFMX Excellence with Component Inheritance > On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:54 PM, John Farrar wrote: > > I don't care if it is JSP... they should adopt the technology at the > > speed > > they expect us to! They have had plenty of time to do this. (And this > > is not > > a tough application... please!) This one is fair. > > Perhaps if you were maintaining a 40,000 page website with extremely > large applications on it, you'd appreciate why there is still some > legacy technology on macromedia.com - the wishlist form has been on > macromedia.com since before Macromedia bought Allaire, BTW. > > To get off BroadVision for instance, we had to rewrite every single BV > application using ColdFusion - at the same time as we were developing > new applications (in CF) and migrating all of the legacy Allaire > codebase (CF4.5, CF5, Spectra - all on Windows) to the "Dylan" platform > (the Apache / CFMX / Oracle / Solaris platform behind macromedia.com). > Over the last couple of years, we've written about a quarter of a > million lines of new ColdFusion code (and over 100,000 lines of > ActionScript as well!). We still have work to do... > > Applications are chosen for migration based on business drivers - and > expending resources converting a small web form (that works just the > way it is) doesn't get as high a priority as some other things. We > *are* redeveloping the feedback system (the "Send Feedback" link at the > bottom of every web page - currently a Perl CGI) in CF because we want > to be able to manage customer feedback more easily - so there is a > business case for rewriting that in CF (using Mach II in fact) and > providing a data management back end. > > Regards, > Sean > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
