Thought this link might be of interest to you all. http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/001871.cfm
Its an article on Mike Chamber's blog, by Tony Lopez, Executive Producer of Macromedia. Please note the links to the survey and feedback pages at the bottom of the article. These are the appropriate places to make a response. Regards Stephen ================================== CF-Europe http://www.cf-europe.org/ Olymia Conference Centre, London 29-30 May 2003 Keynote by Ben Forta and Tim Buntel Discount tickets before March 14th 2003 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willy Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Day 3 Opera works! Re: The New Macromedia Website > Except for the Download page that tells Opera users to "Please Use a > Supported Browser". Baby steps, I guess. Hopefully they'll get that > working at some point soon. > > The home page is working great. So, as a developer who's doing some > remoting, some RIAs (regardless of how *that* thread pans out), I'm > intensly curious: What *exactly* was the problem, and will it effect > me, as I build RIAs? > > Willy > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 05:18AM >>> > Ahh good I am quite happy now that it was finally fixed so I can see > the > site. > That song on the front page is nice for all of 2 seconds and then it > burns > into your skull lol. > > But looks like its not quite as laggy as it was in ie other 2 days. > > Kudos MM for at least letting those people who like a good browser :) > (Opera) to use your site. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean A Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:31 AM > Subject: Re: The New Macromedia Website > > > On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 14:08 US/Pacific, Adrocknaphobia Jones > wrote: > > For the last few years I've been telling upper management that I can > > cut > > costs, raise quality, and employ less developers. Cold Fusion is the > > solution for us. Am I supposed to go to them and say, I need 3 times > > the > > budget per project and quadruple my department size > > I'm not sure why you think you need to do this? No one is forcing you > to abandon CF nor forcing you to use Flash - you can continue to sell > your "CF is cheap" position and continue building great sites, > quickly. > CF is great for that. > > > But last month I > > noticed a large part of this community actively learning .NET. > > I'd hope large parts of this community would be constantly learning > about technology. That's what makes everyone a better programmer. > That's why people take courses, for example. > > > My underlying issue is that Macromedia is very fickle. I can't tell > you > > where they are going to be in a year. Which mean I don't know where > I, > > a > > MM developer will be in a year either. > > Well, I don't think anyone can realistically argue the new site hasn't > been fully sign-posted. Anyone who is surprised by our RIA deployment > has, frankly, been living under a stone :) > > And it is purely evolution. It's CF on the back end, several of the > apps are pure CF. Nothing shocking there. We have just four RIAs on > the > new site - there are five pure CF applications. People have been using > Flash UIs on CF apps for quite some time, certainly prior to the MX > launches. > > Macromedia has been roundly criticized for not using our own > technology > and for being a few releases behind the leading edge. Now we're up to > date. You can't really criticize us for pushing the envelope... > > Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture > Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. > tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 > aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com > An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog > > Announcing Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions > Maximize your power with our new premium software subscription > Find out more: http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnetsubs > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
