Re: Who Uses Fusedocs?

[doug]

Ken, this is not just inherent in the FB or CF community, it is inherent in programmers, no matter what the language or tools.  I assign part of the problem in that the majority of programmers (developers) are, for the most part, self-taught.  College semesters and fast track training courses by their very nature can only produce the simplest of projects, and should be considered only a jump-start.  That is, when on the real job they are encouraged to provide the functionality that managers and clients want to see.  Only in the vary largest software companies with fairly large development teams require a framework or prototype.  But I still believe these are in the minority.  For the most part, applications are developed by one person.  Some prefer to call it a team approach when different developers work on specific modules within an application, however basically each developer is working alone.   Deadlines and budgets rarely have enough margin built in for code documentation.  Frequently, little budget is even allowed for the user manual as well, and you can see many software packages in which the documentation is obviously done as an afterthought. Saying this is bad, is true, but so it the lack of testing and debugging prior to delivery, but yet it is still a fairly common industry practice.  But you should not be surprised, this is just too commonplace.  Perhaps little noticed by those developers who spend an entire career on one job, for one company.   Doug White http://www.samcfug.org http://www.clickdoug.com   ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Beard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:38 AM Subject: RE: Who Uses Fusedocs? they are "winging it".   Some of them do data models or html prototypes before they start, some just have mockup screens in photoshop and excel files with lists of fields that need to be stored.  I'm continually surprised at the lack of planning I find in the cf community. ==^================================================================ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================