The original thing I was calling out was the influence of the MS discount and misunderstanding of CF at MySpace. But I am not suprised to hear there was poorly written code there, and it is not CF's fault. In fact, I'm starting to wonder now how much we (old timers) are responsible for those misimpressions of CF that linger today. Much of my work has been cleaning up spaghetti code...and I'm sorry to say some of it was mine. My first CF training was a 3-day affair, and I think a lot of people got started with things like that. I kept trying to improve, read CFDJ, went to CFUnited when it started, and got better. But in those early days before methodologies, frameworks, and good practices, it was kind of a Wild West of coding, wasn't it? For all our talk about separating content and presentation, I admit I originally hard-coded text more than I should have, didn't CFINCLUDE as much as I should have....although still, I was MUCH better than some people I saw that didn't understand the principles at all.
But I still blame people who blame CF when they don't really know what it can do. Especially today's versions, which some people don't even know exist! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
