On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter's puzzlement gets back to a theory that I failed miserably in > outlining yesterday: that MacrAdobe (perhaps unwittingly) created that link > when they bundled CF awareness into Dreamweaver.
I really don't think so. Before the big push for CFers to use DW, there was UltraDev which was DW with all the code gen / code assist for CFML, ASP, PHP. UltraDev was then blended back into DW (as of DW5 I think, since I seem to recall using UD4 while I was at Macromedia). I don't think anyone has come to think of CFML as a "graphic design" tool because of its inclusion in DW, any more than they would think the say of ASP or PHP - which all appear in the same context in DW. > would use IDEs like Homesite and CFStudio to do our back-end work On Windows, perhaps. Us Mac users had to use DW or some other code editor. I publicly switched from DW to jEdit because DW6 was unusably slow on the Mac (yup, I blogged my switch while I was working at Macromedia - ever tactful! :) I think the misconception of CFML predates the DW push and continues to this day. Part of the problem is simply that once Macromedia bought Allaire, ColdFusion has been owned by companies associated universally with "design" rather than "software development". Consider how many think of Flash purely as a tool for annoying animated ads or movies - IMO, that "bad" impression is very similar to the problem ColdFusion has coming from the same company. I don't think Adobe can change this impression (I've no idea whether they would even want to?) so I think the only way to change the idea that CFML is not a real programming language is for us - the CFML community - to just keep putting the word out there in other communities that we write (complex) applications in CFML. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/
