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Aug 05, 2006 - CF8 - Scorpio WishList Survey Results!
Posted by Tariq Ahmed on 08/05/06 02:59PM for Technology & Business | 2425 Views

The results are in! Thanks to the 317 people that sent in their responses. To my surprise, the #1 thing people wanted is an idea I threw out back in Dec '05 - which is some kind of a desktop widget/plugin that would allow you from you desktop/outlook/Office apps to easily publish to your CF based CMS's. E.g if you're looking at an email, wouldn't it be great to click on [Publish to Your Website Name] button in Outlook and instantly publish that email to your CMS? Or, be able to search your verity collection instantly... Be able to do all this without having to load up a browser, navigate to the site, etc... Or, be able to just drag and drop upload from desktop to CF CMS? CMS's are one of the top things being built in CF, adding that kind of ability is a huge usability leap. Also interestingly is items #2 and #3 are also ideas I've posted in the wish list. NICE! Glad to see I'm not the only one wanting this stuff.

Although the CF Titans have been clamouring for more and more OO abilities, the rest of the community doesn't feel as passionate about such things. You'll see that OO abilities ranked last (e.g only 12% REALLY want function overloading).

Based on great feedback, I'll be posting a follow-up Survey to cover items that this survey didn't catch.

Blah Blah Blah... On with the results! From most desired to least desired, here's what you want. Keep in mind, it's all relative in that 98.9% of people may want item #1 and 96.2% may want the last item. You'll want to download the raw results to see how badly people want a particular feature.

1) CF Desktop Plugin to support drag n drop
2) CF to CF Comms via AMF
3) Faster validation abilities
4) Tomcat & JBOSS Support
5) 3rd Party Updates
6) Ability to deploy customized+scripted CF Installations
7) Improved crash prevention
8) Improved Reg-Ex
9) Mustang Support
10) Plug-In Architecture
11) Web Interface Hooks into JRUN Config
12) Threading/Thread Mgmt & Protection
13) Sandbox Security Enhancements
14) SNMP Gateway Service
15) Upload to a variable instead of disk
16) Image Manipulation
17) Strong Integration w/Exchange
18) Strong IMAP Integration
19) Create/Extract/Manage ZIP Files
20) AJAX Abilities
21) Integrated CF8+Flex FDS Install
22) Manage many CF Servers from a single console
23) Access to Server Internals/Metrics
24) Tools to debug remoting and gateways
25) CFAdmins Tools for creating Event Gateways
26) E4X Support
27) Static Methods in CFCs
28) Trend to be more Java Like
29) Add non-DOM based XML Parsing
30) Improvements to large file parsing
31) Improve CFDocument
32) Add refactoring to an IDE
33) Enhanced Flash Forms using Flex 2
34) Add grandular control of DBs and Content Caches
35) Add native support for MS Office Formats
36) Add cache control at the app level
37) Add 508 Accessibility checking to an IDE
38) IDE/Hooks into better interactive debugging
39) Give us an IDE with CFC Introspection
40) Control logging at the app level
41) Add PDF Forms Support
42) Add native support for RSS
43) Add CSS/HTML pod layout support
44) Integration w/Breeze
45) Make CFC Instances Serializable
46) OO: Interfaces
47) OO: Destructors
48) OO: Constructors
49) OO: Function Overloading

Cheers!

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Comments (5)
August 06, 2006 08:34AM - Rob Brooks-Bilson
Hi Tariq,

Taking a look at the results you posted vs. the raw data, I'm not sure how you came up with the ranking you did. What statistical method did you apply to achieve your ranking?

August 06, 2006 09:29AM - Sami Hoda
Tariq, did you email the results to Damon Cooper at Adobe?

August 06, 2006 11:40AM - Tariq Ahmed
Hi Rob.


The results are from SurveyMonkey. All the questions were a simple 1-5 ranking.
1=really don't care

2=don't care

3=neutral

4=want it

5=really want it.


so if 100% of responses for a question are 5, then it's overall rating would be 5. The overall ratings are simple sorted.

August 06, 2006 11:43AM - Tariq Ahmed
Hi Sami. Not directly. Damon mentioned on his blog that they're paying attention to the wishlist topic, so I figure he's aware of it.

August 06, 2006 03:00PM - Rob Brooks-Bilson
Hi Tariq,

I tried to post a follow-up here, but I think it was too long and I broke the comment system. I've posted over on my blog here:

www.brooks-bilson.com/blogs/rob/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E57E8FE3-9E9F-48A9-427F1D10FE64F04B

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