Analysis paralysis is an informal phrase applied when the opportunity cost of decision analysis exceeds the benefits. Analysis paralysis applies to any situation where analysis may be applied to help make a decision and may be a dysfunctional element of organizational behavior. Often phrased as paralysis by analysis, in contrast to extinct by instinct.

Analysis paralysis on Wikipedia

I've got it and I've got it bad. How do you deal with a surplus of choices?

Javascript/AJAX

• ExtJS
• jQuery
• prototype
• Spry
• YUI

ColdFusion MVC Framework

• Coldbox
• Fusebox 5.5
• Mach-ii
• Model-Glue

ColdFusion ORM

• Transfer
• Reactor

Thankfully, ColdSpring appears to be the standard for managing configuration and dependencies in ColdFusion applications. Finally, a choice that is easy to make. :)

Unfortunately, having been out of the loop on most of these frameworks over the past few years I'm not even certain what each can do for me, let alone why one might be better than the other. I wish there was a good way to get over this hurdle. Sometimes I eye the Ruby community with envy. It's Rails or the highway. While choice is good, sometimes I definitely feel that the lack of a "best in breed" standard holds ColdFusion back.

I had the pleasure of seeing Adobe's Director of Product Evangelism, Ben Forta, give a Flex 3/AIR presentation in Cary last night. First, I must mention that Ben has the best job title. Hands down. While the Flex 3 and Flex Builder portion of the presentation was very nice, I was there mainly to learn more about AIR.

AIR in one sentence can be described as a cross platform platform for creating desktop apps using HTML, JS, Flex and Flash. It doesn't sound particularly impressive until you view some of the AIR showcase apps. I was most impressed by the Anthropologie e-commerce catalog. I'm definitely looking forward to see what folks do with this technology. AIR looks to deliver "write once, run anyway" applications and it looks good while doing it.

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!

LOL!

You just have to love the noob post for Movable Type. Unfortunately, Blogger wasn't getting the job done. Mainly because it only output Atom feeds with multiple URL's in the URL property. This was causing problems with the agregator at coldfusionbloggers and so it had to go.

I'm not really sure when it happened, but the folks in the Coldfusion community have begun speaking a completely different language. Brian Kotek has a post announcing his release of a Transfer Decorator Bean Injector Observer. Yikes! That's a mouthful, and it gets even worse as you read the post. Most of the concepts talk about a few different design patterns. Thanks to Head First Design Patterns, I have started down the track of learning about design patterns. However, there is still a lot in Brian's post to wrap my head around for a design pattern noob, like I.

There is one thing I've definitely learned lately, it hurts to try and expand your knowledge in an unfamiliar area, but it hurts even more if you don't.

My site has been added to coldfusionbloggers.org, which is a fabulous aggregator of most of Coldfusion centric blogs. This is a must visit site for any serious Coldfusion programmer.

While you are at it, check out Coldfusion Community which is another great site! It's amazing how the CF community has grown in the past year or so. Perhaps I should say, it's amazing how much more of the CF community I have been exposed to over the past year or so.