Re: Coldfusion vs ... Oh dear!

> "ColdFusion is a toy for little sites,
>  while ASP is a 'real' application server."

good one, mike (mike k)

that sounds *so* much like a couple people i know who have embraced the
microsoft mindset

another thing that ASP proponents believe is that it's cool that they can
code little hooks into the operating system to make api calls or
whatever -- i don't really understand all that alphabet soup like COM and
ISAPI and OLE or whatever, all i know is that in ASP you have to open a
connection and write nothing into it to get it to close (which kind of
makes sense as it's brought you by the same folks that make you hit the
Start button to shut down your computer... )

the implication that hooking into the operating system or database system
might *not* be an advantage unless you are a homogeneous microsoft shop
always seems to somehow escape these people, they give you another blank
look as if to say "dude, you mean you aren't running sql/server? well
BUMMER, man, dunno what to suggest for you, man..."

and a well tuned ASP application *does* run really slick, no argument
there, but all you have to ask these people is two simple questions -- did
you deliver the final working product on time and on budget (they turn
slightly pale), and eight months from now, with the original programmers
off on another project, how easily can you change a few table structures in
the underlying database (they go "but that would mean a lot of the
database-related code in the application would also have to, um, change..."
and then they clam up completely...)

can you tell i like the simple approach?  and to me there's nothing simpler
than

  <CFQUERY>
    your query goes here
  </CFQUERY>

because as we all know, the real efficiencies are obtained through
effective queries, and not in the scripts that run them...

plug-and-play database systems, too  (i.e there is more to the database
world than just migrating from access to sql/server)


rudy
http://rudy.ca/

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