>- see footer for list info -< > the some of the CF code out there is appalling.
I'm pretty sure all of us have written stuff like that in out dark and dangerous pasts! :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Woods To: Coldfusion Development Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] Starting Farcry >- see footer for list info -< > * too many CMS I've seen are perplexing for the user (Paul I take > your point but disagree, CMS should be for non-technical users, > techie stuff can be added for special authorised tech heads) Our customers are generally pretty clueless about technology, yet they are comfortable using Speck. When they log in to manage their site, they do no log in to a separate administration area To edit content, they just navigate to the page they want to edit, switch on the admin links and click edit on the block of content they want to edit. There is no separate "administration" site, something which I think confuses non-technical users. > * most of us I bet have had to debug/ rebuild someone else's CMS and > lost a lot of hair Speck was designed as a framework to expand and does not attempt to solve all content management problems out of the box. The tag library allows the system to be expanded without hacking into the core framework files. This should avoid the need to rebuild, developers are more likely to want to expand the system to meet their exact requirements rather than hack the existing code. As for debugging, well, errors are generally handled by the application and the error reporting should make it easy enough to identify the offending code. I think Speck is very well designed and implemented in comparison to many other CF apps I've seen. Tracking down the cause of unhandled exceptions is a lot easier when code is well written within some kind of architecture rather than just all over the place. I've had the hassle myself of having to implement or fix/hack other people CF apps in the past and oh my God, the some of the CF code out there is appalling. Right, I'll shut up now, I just wanted to address the Damian's points. Mark _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -< _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
