Hi Jeff, A very quick answer is that if i came and worked for your company would i know on the first day which snippets did what? Would I conform to your standards? Frameworks allow people to pick up code and run with it quickly and conform to rules set out with in the framework.
HTH On 02/05/07, Jeff Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We've (our development team) been using Dreamweaver, and we use it > internally for checking in/out documents. We write CFCs and utilize > Dreamweaver's "Components" tab. We use store all of our "most used code" in > snippets that we all share, and we're all trained Computer Science graduates > (not designers or graphic artists who "picked up" web "programming")... > > Why would we use a framework? What would be the benefit? > > I only ask because all of these framework discussions always leave me with > the feeling of, "hmmm... that sounds really 'neat' but with our workflow it > seems really redundant..." or perhaps better said, "that seems like a lot of > overhead to achieve what we already achieve pretty effortlessly"... > > Is there something I'm missing from a framework that I don't get from > simply utilizing all the tools available in Dreamweaver? Even Ajax, which > gave me pause a few months ago, thinking, "hmmm, now I *might* need a > framework to implement some of these whiz-bang Ajax doo-hickeys" now seems a > thing of the past with Spry shipping with Dreamweaver CS3. > > Am I missing something? We don't re-write code. We re-use everything. It's > all available in our snippet library, and our CFCs are constantly being > reused. Is there something more that we could be doing with a framework that > we're not able to do without it? > > I just thought it seemed like an "appropriate" question because of the > framework threads that have been popping up all over the place lately... got > me thinking and all... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276844 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
