In near perfect world there would be good documentation for every application you were asked to modify. However, it is too common to find applications that have 1000's of templates and 100+ tables without any documentation and even very skimpy inline comments.
For some reasons the management frequently things documentation and planning are "not work" - even at development oriented shops. TK www.tomkitta.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:02 PM To: CF-Talk 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:256166 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
