All -
Jason is referring to an application on which I was the chief
architect. Since the design choices he mentions below were driven by
specific functionality of the application, I have contacted him off-list
and asked him to continue this conversation off-list.
If anyone on-list wants to have a general discussion about the pros and
cons of using object properties vs. metadata for classification or about
duplicating object types, or in fact about Spectra best practices, please
contact me off-list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If there is interest, I will
post back to the list.
-- David
At 03:08 PM 2/21/2001 Wednesday, you wrote:
>All-
>
>At work I recently inherited a mid-sized content management system from a
>consulting organization in Boston. The system is built using ZERO meta-data
>and makes use of content types for categorization of content (Resulting in
>multiple content types of the same structure, just a different name. In case
>you were wondering, this makes content mgmt of any sort by non-technical
>personnel an impossibility not to mention being useless when it comes to
>personalization)
>
>This seems to me a great waste of Spectra's capabilities. Can anyone make a
>guess as to why this was done? Has anyone else built a personalized cms on
>spectra without using meta-data? Has anyone else come across an
>implementation of Spectra that does not follow ANY of allaire's best
>practices? While we're at it let's buy plans for a house, throw them away
>and build the house with match sticks and a glue gun.
>
>Has anyone elses' company spent $15k for a system just for the pretty box
>and the neat Quick Reference book?
>
>just curious. and fuming. demons of stupidity and un-maintainableness- be
>gone! (yes I made up that last word.)
>
>
>
>"Hey, look at me! I know ColdFusion!"
>
>-- unknown.
>
>Jason
>
>
>
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