The ColdFusion Podcast Episode 33 - FusionDebug
This week we address some comments, email,and run down a few news items of interest as well as take a brief look at FusionDebug, the interactive step debugger for ColdFusion.
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- Charlie Arehart's Blog: FusionDebug Part 3 - Getting Started With Step Debugging
- Charlie Arehart's Blog: FusionDebug Part 2 - Why Use FusionDebug When You Can Just Use CFDUMP? A Baker's Dozen Reasons
- Charlie Arehart's Blog: FusionDebug Part 1: Why get excited?
- Sarge's Blog
- David Fekke's Blog
- Participate in the MAXUP unconference at MAX 2006
- Flex Builder 101: Four basic lessons on coding your first application with Flex Builder
- Client-Side Interactivity without Ajax
- Compound Theory - CFQUERY Results: Is it NULL or is it just an Empty String?
- ColdFusion Email Validation, IsValid(), And CFMail Errors
- cfQuickDocs has its own domain now
- FusionDebug - The New ColdFusion MX Interactive Debugger
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And I agree that FusionDebug is priced too high - great product but I'm not sure the value outweighs the costs... If it was about 1/2 the cost I'd be in...
Jim
I contacted the FusionReactor team as soon as I heard your statement that FR JDBC wrappers were not intended for production service. Their response below:
<i>As far as I know (and I have checked quickly with some of the
developers) we have never suggested that the JDBC wrapper is unsuitable
for production environments and we are currently unaware of stability
problems with this feature.
I don't know exactly what problems the coldfusion podcast guys have had
or where they got these warnings from, but we will investigate this and
try to work out what has happened.
In the meantime, if you are experiencing any problems with the JDBC
wrapper then please let us know.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Greg
FusionReactor Team</i>
David.
Flex Price:
Yes it was $15k, and when it was reduced to $1k, it kind of did the one thing that freaked a lot of people out - given them nirvana - just without the skillset to back it up. So you're going to find more and more people are simply skilling up as we speak. They are somewhat perplexed, on one hand they know and luv HTML - most would argueably have been coding in it for the past 10 years - so to abanden this is quite a qantmn leap?. AJAX is very attractive to those who want the "RIA" dreamset, without having to learn something new in terms of an entire language?
It was released in June, and to be honest I think we are only now just starting to see some FLEX applications fall off the factory floor.
Flex Examples:
You're correct, a lot of the online FLEX apps aren't high grade, most of the really good stuff is hidden behind Corporate Firewalls. There some quite amazing concepts floating about, SAP have some really interesting uses for it and now Primavera is looking to re-engineer its entire WEB UI into FLEX. So while its still "greenfield" days, give it probably another 3-6 months and you're very likely to see some coders come from unknown origions and put some FLEX goodness online.
Flame:
We can burn churches? :)
It wasn't that you "went after FLEX" it was that you gave an unprepared opinion on it and what basically annoyed me with it was that it was unnecessary. I've never once found Adobe/Macromedia un-approachable. Email Ted, Steve and the FLEX guys for some online example lists or discussions? Interview them etc.. thats what could of been done and the last thing the FLEX community needed was an opinion on the technology being defragmented?
FLEX isn't perfect but its damn site closer to the RIA utopia... that is until I get my hands on Windows Vista XAML and see how that dog will hunt :)