hhhmmm, sounds like mach-ii, or fusebox, or... Cutter
Matthew Small wrote: > "You wind up with all this controller code spread through hundreds of pages > / components" > > What does that mean? Controller code? You write a page that does one small > section of your entire application, and you use code-behind to abstract the > business logic from the presentation. It even makes it nice because you can > write an entire application and give the presentation to a graphic designer > to work around and he can't mess with the code. Allaire was preaching that > 5 years ago. > > > "And most "regular application"s are scary! > > What's so scary about writing an application? I don't mean to be snide, but > it sounds like you haven't figured out how to break up the application into > smaller sub-applications. > > > "A lot of VB apps I've seen are very anti-architecture" > So what? There's plenty of good ones, and there are plenty of bad ones. > But one point I'll concede - I've never seen a poorly written CF > application... wait a second, there was that one... > > "(redneck voice: "Hey y'all, we'll just stick the logic on this here > button's OnClick!")" > > So you don't like event-based architecture? Go look at Mach-II then ask Mr. > Corfield what he thinks about it. How about javascript? Why not look at > something like the two-selects-related CF tag and tell me that it's not > event-based? > > > "IMHO, ASP.NET is a great technical achievement that got blemished when > MS's marketing group realized they could sell it as "VB for Web apps," > > Gee whiz, some of us don't even use VB to write apps. Lordy, I use c-Sharp. > > > Matthew Small > Web Developer > American City Business Journals > 704-973-1045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Rinehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Not to start a flame war..... > > >>Using code-behind (asp.net class) and web forms (viewstate) are two of the >>MAJOR advantages of using ASP.NET. > > > Code-behind is nice, but I've seen it become a pain in the arse with > really big applications. You wind up with all this controller code > spread through hundreds of pages / components, and when your model > changes, you have to automagically remember which code behinds deal > with that portion of the model, and go update them. > > I think I just have a personal preference for front controllers over > page controllers. > > >>It's a web analogy to a regular application > > > And most "regular application"s are scary! A lot of VB apps I've seen > are very anti-architecture (redneck voice: "Hey y'all, we'll just > stick the logic on this here button's OnClick!"), and code-behind is > now letting the same shlock spread to web apps. Struts, Rails, and, > well, almost all of the other MVC frameworks make it nigh impossible > to do this kind of crap, and ASP.NET all but encourages it. > > IMHO, ASP.NET is a great technical achievement that got blemished when > MS's marketing group realized they could sell it as "VB for Web apps," > perpetuating shitty implementations that'll keep hundreds of MCADs > employed as maintenance programmers for decades. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:212064 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
