>>With the advent of more advanced features, everywhere I go I see a big push for moving Coldfusion and Coldfusion development into very complicated frameworks and OOP. The usual reason given is that not doing so runs the risk of rendering the Coldfusion developer obsolete in the job marketplace.
No not really. It is still just as easy to learn. I a helping a friend, a very talented artist/UI/html/css guy learn cf and he is doing fine with it. He is not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination but CF allows him to do basic stuff very easily. Stuff that would take MUCH longer to learn/do if he were using PHP. All the OO and Framework stuff is good for when you hit the limits of what you can do with procedural methodologies (IMHO). Like Ray said, OO and Frameworks are for solving problems. My $.02 and worth every penny, G! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Irvin Gomez <ir...@pixel69.com> wrote: > > Coming from a design, not programming, background, I embraced Coldfusion > for all the well-known reasons: easy to use, easy to learn, easy, easy...you > get the idea. > > With the advent of more advanced features, everywhere I go I see a big push > for moving Coldfusion and Coldfusion development into very complicated > frameworks and OOP. The usual reason given is that not doing so runs the > risk of rendering the Coldfusion developer obsolete in the job marketplace. > > So, my first question: if the reason for going in the direction suggested > is fear of becoming 'unemployable', wouldn't it make far more sense to move > into something more "popular" like PHP, .Net, etc. right away? Because the > same argument can be used to scare even the most advanced Coldfusion > developers: no matter how good you are, you're still part of a very small > minority and doing coldfusion instead of PHP will make you obsolete sooner > or later. > > Second and final question: what's really wrong with a procedural approach > when dealing with medium or small web sites (which I imagine is the majority > of work entrusted to your average Coldfusion developer)? Is there a > legitimate need to learn what *APPEARS* to be over-complicated and clumsy > frameworks and OOP strategies? > > And, please, know i'm not trying to create a flame war. I'm not pretending > to be an expert (I'm not) in Coldfusion matters. I'm just trying get the > real-world perspective of fellow developers far more experienced and > knowledgeable than me. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
