“UserLand” has been busy updating “Frontier”: the outliner gets new vitality, the kernel gets a shot of espresso, and the webserver learns to play nice with other servers on the same box.
I spent all day yesterday trying to debug an ecommerce application that uses XML and XSL in an ASP/COM environment. I have to say that it was the most frustrating, exasperating experience. The documentation is sorely lacking, especially in anything resembling a “Troubleshooting” section. It’s as if they couldn’t imagine anyone having trouble. “They must think we’re stupid”.
via “Scripting News”: “UserLand” is going to post a new “Manila” RPC spec for accessing the sites from desktop apps. This is an area I’m VERY interested in.
For years I’ve heard good things about Cold Fusion. So when we went looking for a good, scaleable CMS with a lot of options, I checked out Allaire’s Spectra. Another CF developer is looking at Spectra, and posted to the CF-Talk mailing list. YACFD (Yet Another Cold Fusion Developer) posted this in response:
I am currently rolling out a very large spectra project and while i think spectra is pretty cool concept and has some neat features as well as a great price point I am not sure if its ready for prime time. Its rather awkward to use and there are so many bugs in the the system its not even funny. Currently our company is moving away from Spectra towards ATG (all java) in that while we think Spectra is pretty nifty its not worth the heartache right now to develop in.
This is really frustrating. I’m expected to make inelligent recommendations to my company, in this case on the subject of CMS’s. This doesn’t make my job any easier.
