This blog is not intended for deeply technical discussions about ColdFusion, JRun etc it is more just a vehicle for my personal opinions drawn from my experiences.  They are no more than that my only qualifier being that I have been all over the world, looking at code, absorbing methodologies and staring at the realities of client needs and I mean client end-users. The users of the GUI's that all the work we ever do ends up producing.

I am going to be simplistic here, to a certain extent.  Unless we are creating an application aimed squarely at techies-developers etc.  Our clients, the users of the sites we produce do not want to know about what was used to give them what they have and in most cases would run a bloody mile if we asked them to look.  They don't care if it is procedural or "OO", whether it uses objects, cfc's, they only care that it gives them what they are looking for, efficiently and reliably. 

It is important, in my opinion,that we always should keep these things in mind at all times and I am posting this because I have seen many applications that suffer from employing abstracted-abstraction to the point where it is literally impossible to know how what was run, where and why.  One of these days go and talk to a good DBA and ask then what they think of dynamic SQL; then again that is a whole different subject.

Let's not go out and build Random Code Generators unless that is what we were asked to do; oh and as venerable as it is; CFIF is not a bad word don't be afraid to use it.