I would be happy to help and write part of a book like this, without compensation if necessary. Compensation would be great, but it's definitely not the reason to do something like this. Further, the market for an advanced CF book is probably rather small, so making money on it is probably unlikely anyway.
One thing that will be a challenge (in my mind at least), is making the examples of applying the patterns actually mean something. I'm far from an OO guru, but I think I've been using the concepts enough to recognize that how you apply the patterns depends in a huge way on the actual problem being solved. One could go around slapping a pattern onto almost any problem and be able to write code that actually worked, but would not be the most effective solution. Maybe one approach would be to come up with some standard problems, along with procedural or "unpatterned" code that solves the problem but does it in a way that makes maintenance difficult. Procedural code wrapped up in CFCs, tall inheritance hierarchies, non-encapsulated code, etc. Then approach the problem again and apply some appropriate patterns in the solution. Just an idea. Anyway Matt (or others), please keep the list informed as this develops. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] ColdFusion and design pattens While I can't commit to writing a book and personally hate the computer book publishing industry; I concede the point that we need an advanced CFML book. I am decently fast enough of a writer that if I knew the subject and had an outline I could knock out something pretty easily. Therefore, I make the following suggestion. Get a group of people together that would come up with an outline for an advanced CFML book. If such an outline is created, I will commit to writing two chapters at least without compensation. As far as finding others; that may be trickier since they will probably want compensation. Personally, I'd rather not deal with the issue and avoid publishing companies altogether. The book itself can be self-published on demand for around $10 per copy. Additionally, I am pretty good with DocBook these days, so creating the PDF for the book printing would be straight forward enough. -Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Bryan F. Hogan > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] ColdFusion and design pattens > > What's difficult to overcome on a project like this is the fact of time > and resources available. > > I would like to make a call to the CF authors we have. I would much > rather have a book on patterns and things in CF rather than a book about > Blackstone's new features. > > I'd be willing to pay 100+ dollars on a book like this. I think that the > books we have are too basic for a lot of people. At least one author > should consider writing such a book. > > Ben?, Ray?, Pete?, Matt?, Sean? Someone? > > I'm still anxiously waiting for the day that Matt and/or Sean would > write an advanced CF book. > > > I'm not sure how much I could contribute but I would love to have access > > to such a project to help me clean up my coldfusion programming > practices. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > I am, and have started working on some examples lately. > > > > Thomas Chiverton wrote: > > > Would anyone be instrested in a community project to develop working > > examples > > > of common design pattens in CFML, using CFCs / Mach II / FB4 ? > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail- > archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
