CFMenuCal Survey: New Features or ColdFusion MX7 compatability?
October 25 2007 by
Adam
It's getting dusty around here. I'm keeping quite busy with my work, and when I do have free time that I spend on the computer, I'm trying to spend at least 50% working on CFMenuCal. So far I've been focusing my efforts on new features and the aforementioned surprises, but today it occurred to me that there are a few of you who have expressed interest in using this yourself — and I know that means sooner rather than later.
When I originally wrote my proof of concept — the alpha that's posted at RIAForge — It served two purposes: the first being making something useful for my wife and myself, and the second being getting my hands dirty with ColdFusion 8. So it's got a lot of the new syntaxes woven in pretty tightly — specifically rampant use of the new { } structure syntax and [ ] array syntax.
I guess I would estimate that it would take about a week, maybe two, for me to convert the alpha to use old syntaxes and make it usable on a ColdFusion 7 and I'm fairly certain even a ColdFusion 6 server.
I think I already have my answer, but I'd still like to hear what the user base has to say. Would you rather I work on converting back to ColdFusion 7 syntax, or continue working on new features (which in all honesty could take months)? On the other hand, if you all have ColdFusion 8 easily accessible to you, it may be a moot point.
In addition, I know that before I started using Subversion at work I couldn't be bothered to setup a client and check out something that I was interested in, so I can relate if you feel the same way. Would anyone prefer if I packaged up everything you would need to run it in a nice downloadable zip?
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Jul 23, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Howdy Todd!
I did at one point have a working demo online, when HostMySite was offering the free public beta accounts for CF8, but it has since expired. I'd like to put up another demo at some point, but I'm still working on getting a CF host and moving my blog(s) and whatnot... which all has to be squeezed into that other 50%, with games and everything else... which just doesn't leave a lot of time to get it done. (And it's looking like I'll have to convert it to MX7 to accomplish that anyway, because CF8 hosts aren't cheap)
I've dedicated a page to the project here: http://tuttletree.com/nerdblog/?page_id=20 (link at the top of the sidebar), and that page also links to the original post: http://tuttletree.com/nerdblog/?p=12
The alpha source is available on RIAForge: http://svn.riaforge.org/cfmenucal/ -- but don't hold that against me, please. ;) It was mostly just a proof of concept, and is a horrible, horrible spaghetti code mess.
Jul 23, 2008 at 12:32 AM
At the risk of sounding ignorant...what the heck is it? Do you have a demo up online somewhere?