Hi All, I have recently been in contact with John Quarto-vonTivadar, from Techspedition.
I asked him whether there were any plans for a Mach-II edition of the Discovering Fusebox 4 with ColdFusion book (which was really helpful to me), and whether he agreed with me that it might hellp to draw more developers to ColdFusion, especially from the J2EE world. I asked him if he would mind me submitting his response to the UG and he was happy to do so - he also wanted to join. His original reply is below: > -----Original Message----- > From: John Quarto-vonTivadar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Sent: 20 April 2004 23:06 > To: Sam Westlake > Subject: Re: Fusebox 4 enquiry > > HI Sam, > > I hear what you are saying, but between you and me, I don't see a lot of > people coming TO coldfusion but rather going away from it. And the framework > business is just not something small fry can get into at this point, since > the new ASP.NET 2.0 will be including tons of framework-like features. I > think the choice now is to get on the .NET or Java bandwagon, and even then > I think .NET has the leg up for where money and ability to create guruness > will be. > > as for MachII, I'm glad to hear you like it! a Lot of work went into it. I > think it's drawbacks are tied directly to CF's and I suggest to peoplem that > a procedural language like CF should use a procedural framework like FB. > MachII was a good exercise in working with OO with what CF could provide but > in the end suffers from a lot of faults for exactly the same reason. All the > limitations of CF leave you with all of the headaches and pains in the ass > of OO -- of which there cna be many -- but with a much-reduced set of upside > advantages that would come from a natively OO language. If you're gonna work > in CF, then stick to procedural work; if you're gonna do OO, then stick to a > OO language like Java or C# that supports all the advantages that OO can > offer. > > I doubt we'll be doing a printed book, since I don't think the market would > support more than a few hundred sales. -- These lists are syncronised with the CFDeveloper forum at http://forum.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ CFDeveloper Sponsors and contributors:- *Hosting and support provided by CFMXhosting.co.uk* :: *ActivePDF provided by activepdf.com* *Forums provided by fusetalk.com* :: *ProWorkFlow provided by proworkflow.com* *Tutorials provided by helmguru.com* :: *Lists hosted by gradwell.com* To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
