Yes, Plum is easy to learn, although I think most Plum users are much more advanced than I am, so it is worth noting that it can grow with you as your skills grow.
The documentation/tutorials are quite complete through the beginning levels and you can probably work through the tutorials in an afternoon. The rest you can pick up on your own. You can use the whole framework and all that it offers or you can use it just for the application framework/security/css management and code all your pages in the traditional manner. I do both within the same applications. I have a hard time understanding why PLUM was not better received with in the coldfusion community as a whole. I understand it is not "oop" or certainly not pure mvc...I understand it was written by titans within the coldfusion community that didn't get along with other titans within the coldfusion community...I get that the Plum IDE (it is not really an ide, it's a crud generator) is built in .net, which rubs many the wrong way... but it really is a fantastic bit of work... Mark -----Original Message----- From: Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFC, YES OR NO On Feb 6, 2008 7:58 PM, Mark Fuqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benign > > I'm sure everyone on this list will say yes to learning oop right away. > Well, almost everyone. I'll point you instead to > productivityenhancement.com where you can download a framework called > PLUM. > Plum is a framework that uses the best of what coldfusion was designed to > be...a quick, easy to learn, scripting language that makes extensive use > of > custom tags. > > Download plum, work through the tutorials you'll be building scalable, > robust applications in half the development time as the more seasoned oop > developers do. Plum makes extensive use of CFC's, but it also has a few > dozen custom tags that make development much faster and easier to learn > and > creates a natural procedural/oop hybrid framework. Not only will you be > up > and running much faster, but as you delve into the framework's code, > you'll > learn, by osmosis, best practices for coldfusion development. > > When you are ready to learn oop, start with an oop language (oop + > coldfusion is a bit of a hack), like AS 3.0 or java or .net/c#. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:38 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFC, YES OR NO > > > > Hi: > As a matter of fact I saw your suggestion and it looked very nice. Did you ever use the framework yourself? Is it easy to learn? Is it easy to make applications with PLUM? Thanks Ali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
