RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-13 Thread James Maltby
LOL! Fair point there! But "what's in a name? A coder by any other name would code just a neat!" :) J -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 17:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the difference between a co

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Watts
> Dave, at the end of the day it boils down to semiology - ye > may as well call them ducks and dogs ... That sounds like Humpty Dumpty's argument: "a word means exactly what I want it to mean, no more and no less". (My quote is probably inexact, though. Sorry.) Just one word of warning; I know

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread James Maltby
age- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 17:07 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? > Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages coder != someone who can work with markup languages Tha

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Watts
> Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages coder != someone who can work with markup languages That's not coding. It's authoring, or formatting. I worked with markup languages (primarily as a technical writer) long before HTML became popular, and I was never a coder or a

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread James Maltby
, 2002 14:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? Just wanting to know. "IMHO - Fusebox is a methodology with a lot of dedicated followers - if you come to CF from a "coders" background it's very rare for you to adopt fusebox (un

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Stephen Moretti
nt: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? > I think the insinuation is that a "coder" is an HTML- or web-programmer-type > (ASP, PHP, etc.) without OO experience, whereas a "programmer" is someone &

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Dave Watts
> Subject: OT: What's the difference between a coder and > a programmer?? > > Just wanting to know. "Coder" is a slang term for programmer, that's all. There's no difference. I think that the original poster was using the slang term to imply sloppyness, o

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Hatton Humphrey
>>There were people referred to as Programmers long before the concept of >>Object Oriented development came along. > > Actually, I think you mean long before the concept of Object Oriented > programming was put into practice. Based on my understanding, OO is just > as old as Procedural Prog

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 09:40 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: >(Shouldn't this be on CF-Community?) > >In my world the distinction is not OO based... Object Oriented is a more >advanced programming technique, but you have to remember those who >program in non-Object capable languages (and there are a lot of them). > >T

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Hatton Humphrey
rve my opinion of just how asinine that > statement is. > > Pete > > - Original Message - > From: "Matthew R. Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:29 AM > Subject: OT: What's th

Re: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
e - Original Message - From: "Matthew R. Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: OT: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer?? > Just wanting to know. > > "IMHO -

OT: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread Matthew R. Small
Just wanting to know. "IMHO - Fusebox is a methodology with a lot of dedicated followers - if you come to CF from a "coders" background it's very rare for you to adopt fusebox (unless you are first taught this way), however if you come to CF from a "programmers" background you will take to fuseb

RE: What's the difference between...

2000-04-18 Thread Aidan Whitehall
Thanks for all the answers:-) -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Netshopper UK Ltd Advanced Web Solutions & Services http://www.netshopperuk.co.uk/ Telephone +44 (01744) 648650 Fax +44 (01744) 648651 -- Ar

Re: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Seth Petry-Johnson
>I guess I'm trying to ask, if CFMODULE allows you to put tags somewhere >other than > - in the same directory as the calling template, or > - in the CustomTags directory >is there any "price" to pay in calling it via CFMODULE instead of as a >custom tag? I prefer to use the CFMODULE syntax

RE: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Dave Watts
> Is calling a custom tag by any more efficient > or inefficient (in terms of memory, processor overhead, > etc) than calling it by ? I don't know. I've heard opinions on both sides, but haven't seen any definitive, universal evidence which is faster, and in any case, the performance differences

RE: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Chris Evans
, 2000 4:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: What's the difference between... Is calling a custom tag by any more efficient or inefficient (in terms of memory, processor overhead, etc) than calling it by ? I guess I'm trying to ask, if CFMODULE allows you to put tags

Re: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Jeff
nick, :~~ : From: Nick Slay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : but I thought I'd just point out that CAN : have end tags.. I have many custom tags that use : CFMODULE because I want to specify the location, : and the does appear to work. :~~

RE: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> custom tags can have a start and end tag. cfmodule cannot. if you want to [ snip ] > m tags directory. Cool... thanks for the reply. -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Netshopper UK Ltd Advanced Web Solutions & Services http://www.netshopperuk.co.uk/ Telephone +44 (01744) 648650 Fax

Re: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Nick Slay
Sorry for butting in on the thread. >custom tags can have a start and end tag. cfmodule cannot. if you want to >"wrap" content then you'd have to use the custom tag approach. also, i've >read from others on the list that custom tags run slightly faster then >cfmodule, but i don't recall wh

Re: What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Jeff
aidan, :~~ : From: Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : I guess I'm trying to ask, if CFMODULE allows you to : put tags somewhere other than :- in the same directory as the calling template, or :- in the CustomTags directory : is there any "price" to pay

What's the difference between...

2000-04-17 Thread Aidan Whitehall
Is calling a custom tag by any more efficient or inefficient (in terms of memory, processor overhead, etc) than calling it by ? I guess I'm trying to ask, if CFMODULE allows you to put tags somewhere other than - in the same directory as the calling template, or - in the CustomTags directo