Re: [OpenBD] CFML for newbies ... resources

[Alan Holden]

Thanks Sean. I share your conflicts, Matt. Mura is making great progress on the CMS front, and Ray's stuff seems like a good starting point for refactoring and extension by developers at the enterprise level. Then again; this other stuff is already polished! But that decision seems to power a vicious cycle: CFML project X will never approach the feature set of competitor Y - if developers won't ever use it - for even their most feature-thin requirements. Putting my PR hat back on for a sec, it seems like a creditability problem to promote a platform - but to do so via another platform entirely. IMHO, it's more than just a quaint observation a developer might make. It's something even a "business decider" will notice and ponder. Where deadlines are concerned, and paying clients have a rigid list of requirements and a set budget; I can totally understand a move to the market leader which best fits the bill. Heck, lots of times the client will demand a certain product (a decision often based more on the stylesheet - than the feature list... "don't make me explain, that one just looks cooler"). We do what we're paid to do. But for a labor of love like this, it just feels weird. What if you didn't have real work to do and bills to pay? Man. I feel your pain. At least CF's got a nice variety of frameworks, right? Maybe we should just show those business deciders all of our frameworks! Al On 8/3/2011 4:48 PM, Matthew Woodward wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Matthew Woodward <m...@mattwoodward.com> wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Alan Holden <alhol...@akh.com> wrote: Are all the CFML-based wikis that lacking? Compared to MediaWiki, absolutely. Sadly true. The same can be said of CFML-based blogs compared to WordPress and of CFML-based CMS systems compared to Drupal / Joomla / {insert widely used FOSS CMS}. Just to expand on this, I flip-flop on this issue in my mind quite a bit but the question is always do we reinvent the wheel just so we can say "me too, but in CFML!" or do we focus on other things? (snip) -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en