Robert Blackburn is a developer and team leader of the Internet Application Development team at American Power Conversion Corporation (http://www.apcc.com). He has been using ColdFusion since 1999, and has revived and manages the CFUnit open source project (http://cfunit.sourceforge.net). He currently has a blog at http://www.rbdev.net/devblog for his occasional ramblings.
Have you ever watched actors improvise? It's quite fun; you never know what's
going to happen. But imagine if a movie director decided a script wasn't
necessary at all.
After all, the actors know the plot and know the most about their characters,
so why not let them improvise. Wouldn't this lead to a more creative and
realistic movie? I think we can all see that this would simply lead to a
confusing story with no consistency. The actors are expected to impose their
own talents on their roles, but they need a script to guide them along.
Developers are no different, yet I see "impr... (more)
A few months ago I stumbled on an IDE named Aptana and I instantly recognized
that it was the perfect IDE for developers who have found it difficult to
convert to CFEclipse. And why is it such a great replacement?
For starters Aptana is actually based on Eclipse. That means it has all the
great features that you've heard of about Eclipse, including the ability to
use the CFEclipse plug-in... (more)
Robert Blackburn is a developer and team leader of the Internet Application Development team at American Power Conversion Corporation (http://www.apcc.com). He has been using ColdFusion since 1999, and has revived and manages the CFUnit open source project (http://cfunit.sourceforge.net). He currently has a blog at http://www.rbdev.net/devblog for his occasional ramblings.
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