SWS
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| Posted: 07/04/2003, 12:31 PM |
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A colleague and I have been using CC for several months, but now we want to try CCS. It seems a lot more difficult. What's the best way to learn it quickly? What's the best material to use? Any ideas gratefully welcome.
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DaveRexel
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| Posted: 07/04/2003, 1:21 PM |
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Moving from CC should be one of the easiest but is rather one of the most difficult transitions...
Let me see, I made a major change already from CC with the first CCS beta [as I have a strong belief in the vision of these developers] ergo I could use the new app more effectively from day one.
Before I get roasted by the vociferous CC advocacy party I will say that I could do most of this hand-coded using similar libs in less than half the time and with much more flexibility than either CC/CCS IF I only wanted to do PHP (my preferred web-dialect), or ASP, so it's the RAD options and code polyglot abilities that grab me, like selling the same portal in ColdFusion for good money as the portal you developed for free in PHP just recoding a few Custom Code sequences.
To cut a long story short I
1- made a sketch(flow-chart on paper) of my CC web-app logic and flow
2- reproduced this in CCS
3- upgraded and fine-tuned the app with the new CCS power
4- made a sketch of my NEW CCS web-app logic and flow
5- reproduced streamlined app from scratch(flow-chart on paper) in CCS
6- joy  more tweaking 
Coming from other diciplines ie video-production etc I have found the use of storyboards describing a typical users journey through a site invaluable.
The key factor is *if I can code this better/streamlined manually === I will* so I have always coded solutions for special cases just as in CC events.
This gives me an birds-eye view in CCS of what I want to accomplish (much as in CC which needs this more) and building the web-app from a planned design always gives the featured application the edge.
In short CCS events have to be matched to CC events but do take the time to investigate the vastly expanded event/component code enabling much more flexibilty in designing your application flow.
The main hurdle would be the new Object Oriented Code Structure but close study of these features are essential to making a smooth transition.
Greetings
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glerma
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| Posted: 07/04/2003, 1:53 PM |
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Read the help pages and the tutorials.
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SWS
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| Posted: 07/05/2003, 1:37 AM |
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Thanks Dave for all your time and comment
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