Sadly, I do think the CF is dying thing is catching on... It's like trying to sell your house
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:54 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:30 AM, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We are having trouble finding CF coders in our area so are thinking > about > > employing .net instead and moving across. I have spent the last 24 > hours > > pulling my hair out trying to do the simplest tasks in .net and am > getting > > nowhere, as far as I can tell it is a great language for complex > > application > > development but a stupidly overcomplicated one for web development and > it > > is > > taking massive amounts of code to do the simplest little task. > > > That seems like an odd reason to change resources...? You can't find > anyone > who does CF? That sucks. > > > > Can anyone recommend a resource that lists C#.net equivalents to CF > > commands? > > > I'm sure there are some lists out there that will give comparable ASP > functions for CF commands, but i'm not really sure how much good that does > you. .NET is a completely different methodology for coding a web > application. Postbacks and code behinds and pre load and etc. etc. Calls > for > a whole different approach. > > Does anyone but me think using .net for web development is a stupid, > STUPID > > idea? > > > Not necessarily. Every single time we have converted a medium sized part > of > our app from CF to .NET, the .NET piece has executed faster. Every time. > No > matter how well we tune our CF page. > > I don't want to start another war about that.....i'm just stating the > reality of our experience. > > No doubt that it is a far more complex undertaking.....and sometimes all > that extra hard work is simply not justified. CF and .NET may be competing > techs for web application development, but there is a time and a place for > both of them, there are apps that are more suited for one and not the > other. > > It's a shame that you have to base your choice of a platform on worker > availability instead of on technical considerations for the app. > > -- > My word's but a whisper > Your deafness, a shout > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
