Boy that sucks!! Did they at least comment their code so htat you have at least some indication as to what everything is suppose to do? If so, that is more than likely all you are going to get from them. And yes, they should provide docs on what they are doing or did. I worked for a helpdesk company, and the owner would not even consider hiring a developer without them agreeing to indepth code documentaion. They ended up using a FB coder and all worked well.
Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:01 PM Subject: Am I off base ? > What's your opinion on this? > > Our Web hosting company built a few custom cf application for this company before > I came on board. The Webhosting company developed these applications within a > multi-application framework and not self contained application. I've done mostly MVC > and Fusbox and I'm getting up to speed on ModelGlue, Cold Spring, etc. > > I asked the hosting company if they had any documentation. Not of the methodology, > but just something that would layout some structure to their framework. Without any guidance, > it will be an additional challenge to follow their application framework flow/process. > They said they don't have any documentation, yet ehy've given me full acess to all the Cf > code and the related tables. Shouldn't they provide some basic roadmap? > > It's been my experience that any good development team would have some documentation > on large projects they create. Isn't it good development practice to leaves clues for developers > replacing original coders or developers that want to scale an existing application? My thoughts > are they're trying to protect their potential future revenue stream from the company. > > Granted, I'm not a seasoned CF-OO developer yet, but shouldn't they have discussed > the this in more detail? > > Thanks > > D > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256162 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
