I Love ColdFusion

The coldfusionweekly pod cast had this link: Open-Challenge-to-the-ColdFusion-Community

So why not: Hello World!

The title; its true, I spent WAAAAYYYYY to much time trying to redo the last application I built. Worrying, fretting, scared, crying at night, horrified that one day I would have to go back and work on my own code. Then one day: http://www.benorama.com/coldfusion/index.htm

This GREAT paper did something. It woke me up a little. More bluntly: I was blind, but now I can see.

I don't think I am in a special boat:

1. I am NOT a natural borne programmer (high school drop out to be exact)
2. I work in PR, and make every kind of web site there is, except HUGE ones (I will make huge ones one day).
3. I personally roll out 20 or so sites a year, my team of three rolls out nearly 60 in total, all with "Kinda-Requirements", and front ends that will change, without question, 30 minuets before the site goes live.  Thus me and my team now believe that "Do it kinda like this" is a fine requirements doc, and "Just one more quick change, can you add a registration thingy before you make it all live?"  is a normal change request.

My not so special boat, will be the requirements for this blog. I want to explore all things cool and great in CF, especially for peep's who want to be like the cool kids (I do, seems like they do more, and have more fun).

I want to broadcast that some nobody like me can program his own ScopeFacade, and understand how and why it works or should work for a particular problem. How someone like me, a guitar player (http://www.morelworld.com/) can read through the source code of ggcc7, ggcc9, ReactorBlog, CFAjax ContactManager, CanvasWiki, cs_bookstore, drink, and HAVE THE BEST TIME DOING IT!!!!!!!

So my small contribution of the day for any CF'er who might start down the wounderfull road of CF, OO, in the context of MVC, is…… drum roll.

1. Print out and read, then read again, then again just for kicks Bennorama's CFMVC article
2. Print out the Model-Glue Quick Start Guide and read it, then re-read it, and read it one more time.
3. Do steps 1 and 2 all over again, cause you will eventually LOVE reading these things.

Small note:
I freely admit to all… I kill trees. Lots of trees. I print out blog posts, I print every article I get, and I print on the 11x17 pages, ream of source code.