Blog Tag: Coldfusion
Fusedoc Responsibility Ideas
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I like patterns. I'm a lot better at certain things when there is a structure to work within or a pattern or template to start from. Not everything is like this. Music in particular is one creative outlet where a structure helps, but often times in finding creative ways to deviate from the pattern.
I hardly ever use Fusedocs, and I would like to do so more frequently. One of the things I never liked about them was trying to figure out what to say in the Responsibility tag. The other items like Input/Output are simple and obvious, but it feels doubly redundant to type them in addition to code. On the other hand, the Responsibility tag has always intrigued me because they suggest typing it in first person, like this example from Hal Helms, 'I check the USER table for a match with the username and password sent to me.'
{Name Withheld} is Crap
If your organization is considering software for web site maintenance, contact tracking and event registration, I recommend that you do not buy {name removed} sold by the company with the same name, {name removed}. They will tell you how great it is, but it's really quite a steamy pile of worthless code.
It barely functions as advertised out of the box and it is difficult to work with (despite being based on Fusebox methodology). The programming is needlessly complex to the point of making it extremely difficult to update, fix and extend. It has a lot of glaring and obvious feature omitions and bugs, many of which were not fixed after a "major update". The company will not patch it's software; they only offer an update to the lastest version, and only after you purchase the support contract, which costs 25% of the price of the product (which is not cheap to begin with). For support and fixes you have to contact a 3rd party company who will sell it to you.
Goodbye Macromedia
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I guess I'm a Certified Adobe ColdFusion MX Developer now? Looks like they've done some gaudy hacks to the Macromedia web site to slap the Adobe logo on it. The deeper content pages have some ugliness on them. Wonder what will become of ColdFusion and Flash? I like Photoshop and Acrobat is nice, but Adobe's software is known for it's frustrating user experience. I hope they don't take the Macromedia products that direction.
Anyone else miss good old Allaire?
I'm Certifiable
I paid my money and took the Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Certification. I passed! Woot! Hooray for me!ColdFusion on Wheels
ColdFusion on Wheels is a ColdFusion development environment using the same (or very similar) conventions as Ruby on Rails. Would *love* to try this out. Or look into the possibility of porting the RoR conventions to PHP (if it's not already being done and I had the time, which I don't). (via Forta)
