BRAVO! I'm so going to use this "just read the bold words..." feature in all of my emails with my clients going forward, excellent!!!
Again, I've not even looked at MG3, but I'm always in favor of K.I.S.S.... (because I'm the representative for that last "S" ;-) ) FWIW, Rich Rich Leach Advanced Certified Adobe ColdFusion Developer [email protected] http://www.cfsnap.com 303-913-7338 Instant Messenger: AOL AIM: cfsnaprich Instant Video Conference: APPLE MobileMe: [email protected] On May 21, 2009, at 8:20 AM, David Henry wrote: > Too busy to read the whole thing? Executive summary: just read the > bold words. > > Methinks there may be a cart before a horse in this process. The > timeline (as I understand it): > Feature was named (in a question given mid-presentation was it?) > Functionality was considered (not sure this totally matches the > feature name) > Need for the feature is discovered (hasn't happened yet imho) > I am a relative Model Glue newbie and I haven't built any large > Model Glue applications yet but I do have lots of experience with > feature creep. This has all the classic signs of a "ya know what'd > be nice is..." request that can soak up developer time away from > stuff that would be more useful. > > Why does the framework need this? Give me a cost vs benefit > analysis. In what way am I better organized and prepared to do my > job good, fast and cheap? If I'm just completely missing the part > of the conversation where someone pointed that out, please break it > down for me again nice and slow. > > As a new user, simply saving me 47 keystrokes in my config is not > worth the extra time I have to put into thinking about how to use > this framework. If I were a totally new MG user, learning Model- > Glue day 1, and I saw the feature in the documentation I would > agonize over whether or not I should be using default events just > because the name sounds interesting and it was in the > documentation. I'd probably do it completely wrong at least once. > I already have plenty to agonize over. > > ~David > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en For more about Model-Glue, check http://www.model-glue.com . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
