Man oh man, seems like I've managed to dive headfirst into a bit of a hornets' nest here :)
I think many valid and interesting points have been raised in this thread. While I will say, that I am still not a "believer", I am certainly going to have a bit of a rethink about my position on some of the issues raised by you guys. At all places where I have worked (all smallish companies), there have been dedicated people to do server setups and maintenance and there has also always been restrictions on what "developers" could install on their machine themselves. (I don't know if this is a particular Danish or European way to do things - seems that things might be a bit different in the US) Believe or not, in the about 10 year timespan I am referring to above, there has be no catastrophes as a result of peoples work being overwritten. This does NOT mean, that I would advocate a shared resources (as I have already stated previously) - given a free choice between developing on shared resources and developing locally, I am quite sure I would tend towards the latter. As for the points raised about how much a "developer" (junior or senior) should know about setting what type of servers up, I am clearly of a different opinion than some of the other participants. While I can certainly see validity in some of the points made, I also tend to think, that some of these differences come down to "religion" or "belief", while others come from me being used to one type of setup and others being used to another. While I have only very limited CF experience in working with a setup where everyone develops locally, I have done quite a bit of this in C#. Having worked with both types, I would contend that they each have their benefits and drawbacks. I think that this thread has reached a point of "terminal velocity" and that I have taken away from what I can on these issues. I will therefore bow out of this thread by saying, that I am very appreciative about the large volume of input and that I am even more appreciative about how you guys have made me reevaluate my position on some things. I love when people can shake up things a bit, and I will most definitely take some of the things that have been discussed in this thread to heart. So thanks you guys - some of your imparted wisdom will find its way into a brand new CF developer, starting on monday :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:354252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
