Hat's off to your last point... I have found that to be a major shift in
development mindset... In another life, before CF and Spectra, this sort of
planning was required. If it was not done, then the success and completion
of the product was at stake.
Back to the original point, I want to point out the Spectra can be thought
of as an investment in the future. For example, new ways of doing things on
the web are popping up all the time. That means in order for your site to
have all the bells and whistles, you constantly have to relearn and
potentially recode the inner 'bowels' of your systems to implement the
needed changes... Since Spectra is a framework/platform that we work off
of, changes and enhancements can be made (either by Allaire or outside
vendors) that we can pick up on immediately. Even without understanding all
that is going on underneath...
-b
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond K. Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Tell me about Allaire Spectra
> >While it's true that Spectra stores things in a generalized way
> that may not
> >be perfect for a specific application, there is no real reason
> why you can't
> >interact with it.
>
> Agreed, but if you want to use the data in a completely different way you
> need to go grab all the object properties from disparate objects and
> collate it again in a different database. Then you need to reapply that
> each time you update the codb. Impossible it ain't, clumsy it is.
Hmmm, ok, I still kinda agree with you here. Maybe clumsy-1, not clumsy. ;)
> >You are 100% right, but last time I checked, this was a REALLY
> good thing.
> >Most big projects suffer from not enough planning. Spectra forces you to
> >spend more time planning, and I can't imagine that that could
> ever be a bad
> >thing.
>
> I'm all with you on this, unfortunately my managers aren't and
> neither are
> many of the entrepreneurs who many people end up working for.
You are correct here as well. We all know that in the real world, the powers
that be tend to like things done very quickly. But, one thing Spectra does
is make my 'code' work much easier. I look at it like this, in the past, the
total time to complete a project was made up of:
20-30% planning
70-80% 'code' work (ie, real work)
Under Spectra, I spend more time planning, but the product is SO powerful, I
save a LOT of time on the coding side. In the end, the result is less time.
At least for me it is. ;)
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Raymond Camden, Cold Fusion Jedi Master for Syntegra (www.syntegra.com)
Allaire Certified Instructor and Member of Team Allaire
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