Jeffrey Zeldman wrote about the redesign of Happy Cog Studios web-site. This lead me through a really long line of thought.

As I pointed at previous post, design is important and ColdFusion being a programming language attached - since Macromedia's days - to the design world is a great thing.

That being said, I see ColdFusion development being fragmented these days. Some people argue for more programmatic, Object Oriented recurses. Some jumps to the boat to fight for more easy-to-use solutions. There's no consensus at the community.

To me is far more important to implement things quickly and easily - that meaning more webapps with less time - to make great systems and more money. As an entrepreneur, I'm interested in tools, tags and features for that. We have a handful of ideas but no time to implement all of them, even using CF, which we believe to be a RAD.

To accomplish that, Adobe should focus on two things:

• A great IDE to allow developers to do MORE with LESS. I have to say I'm not using Dreamweaver, Eclipse nor Flex tools and I don't know the state of these softwares. But first key concept to focus on is IDE. Period.
• To map the most common tasks and create really easy ways to implement then. CF price is high and I can bet we never used some of the most advanced features it delivers. We just haven't need of then.

I'm not saying that Adobe should forget all the great and advanced features. It has to be there and we like to know that, if we need, they'll be available without the need to spent more money. But the main focus should be RAD solutions, and the "Flex+ColdFusion" package seems to me as a sign that Adobe really understand things this way.

As a side note, Happy Cog new design is amazing. I wanted to do THAT with this web-site but, as you can see... I'm in lack of design skills to do so. =)

Labels: adobe, coldfusion, entrepeneur, flex, ide, rad, simplicity, work

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