On 8/29/07, Brent Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OO's fine if you: have a lot of expertise in it and write applications you > host
Not sure what hosting has to do with it. > OO's fine if you: will need to use common objects (get from db, store in > db, look up customer, get site details) Isn't this true of all apps? > OO's not fine if you: have a big project that needs to be on time, bug > free and you don't have much experience in it Agree with you on the last point. Absent the last point however, big projects tend to be more bug-free in OO (in my experience), which leads to better quality software and easier-to-reach deadlines. If you're experienced in OO and avail yourself of the tools available, it doesn't take any more time to write OO applications than non-OO applications. Once you get into maintenance and changes is where you'll be kicking yourself if you don't have a well-architected OO application. > OO's not fine if you: are building small custom internal applications This is a pretty ridiculous generalization in my opinion. Small custom internal applications tend to be the ones that grow into large custom internal applications. If you start with a bad foundation you'll again be kicking yourself as people want features added to it. Development is not a race to the finish line. Development is about building maintainable applications that don't have to be thrown out when people want changes made to them. > I guess I've always been up against the fact that I'm the only developer > here and have to show results and no excuses. So I've been shy on the CF OO > thing because it seemed like such a monumental effort, maybe that's where > these guys are comming from.. "high pressure, high stress, I don't have > time".. If you're in an environment where your boss doesn't give you the time and doesn't encourage you to keep improving your skills, not to mention give you the freedom to do so, I'd say find another job. ;-) Obviously deadlines are important, and as you go through the learning curve associated with OO, you may need to do things how you already know how to do them in order to hit a deadline. If that becomes a constant excuse for why people don't learn new things, then I take issue with that. The world of development is OO. CF developers need to realize this and get on board. After all, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. ;-) -- Matt Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mattwoodward.com You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/cfcdev@cfczone.org
