I wouldn't say webservices is a "luke warm" topic. As a matter of fact, I'm writing you from the U.S. right now... I came and presented at the Edge WebServices conference in Boston.. lots of companies doing interesting things with webservices.
~Simon Simon Horwith CTO, Etrilogy Ltd. Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Instructor Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Certified Flash MX Developer CFDJList - List Administrator http://www.how2cf.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 February 2004 11:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] Coldfusion Developer > > Webservices were a hot topic about 2/3 years ago. It's only a luke warm > topic now imho. > 'fraid its on the up again...... It all petered off to almost nothing, but there have been ever increasing questions about consuming web services on the various lists in the last 3 months..... > I'm not sure if I can be bothered to take the exam. Especially as it's > asking a lot of questions about tags and attributes (isn't that what > docs are for???)... > Totally agree... This is most of the reason why in 8 years I've never bothered with the certification. I'm not great at exams or remembering stuff, but (most of the time) I'm bloody good at finding out or working out how to do something. > and also qoq... why? surely with CFMX, you do all > the data abstraction in a CFC and work from there. I haven't really > seen a need to do qoq very much in any application (anyone disagree???) > as I see it as partially poor database and code design *ducks*. > Heh heh... Yes unfortunately that does seem to be the reason a lot of people use QofQ and, until recently, I've avoided it like the plague. There is a place and time to use it, but there are few and far between. Getting subsets of data that the application already has access to is about the only thing I use it for. Quicker than going back to the DB and saves on caching. Stephen -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
