Comments on: Frameworks: the new black http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/frameworks-the-new-black/ ColdFusion and best practices web building Fri, 28 May 2010 00:51:03 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Belair http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/frameworks-the-new-black/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Eric Belair Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:09:12 +0000 http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/frameworks-the-new-black/#comment-353 I really want to get myself going on learning at least one CF Framework. I had the chance to learn a coding framework until my last project, when I simply told my superiors that learning MVC was going to be part of the project (Cairngorm for Flex). I had previously written two other Flex applications in "freeform" (the way I've always coded - put anything anywhere and make it work). In fact, my first application started out as one 2000 line MXML file. Since learning and using Cairngorm, I will never go back, and I'm even thinking about porting the old apps into Cairngorm. I really want to get myself going on learning at least one CF Framework. I had the chance to learn a coding framework until my last project, when I simply told my superiors that learning MVC was going to be part of the project (Cairngorm for Flex). I had previously written two other Flex applications in “freeform” (the way I’ve always coded – put anything anywhere and make it work). In fact, my first application started out as one 2000 line MXML file. Since learning and using Cairngorm, I will never go back, and I’m even thinking about porting the old apps into Cairngorm.

]]> By: ike http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/frameworks-the-new-black/comment-page-1/#comment-352 ike Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:09:43 +0000 http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/frameworks-the-new-black/#comment-352 It really lays to rest this notion I remember reading about a few years ago ... actually part of how my Galleon ports project came about ... where a number of people were hesitant to start learning a framework for fear of chosing one that might not ultimately "win out" (as though frameworks are all competing in some strange technological equivalent of "king of the hill"). Actually that indecisiveness about choosing a framework (and fear of it going away) is a very basic human experience - we pretty much all have it. But as I've said before, I don't think any framework is likely to become a "gold standard" like used to be the case with Fusebox back when other CF frameworks were scarce. I think we're only going to see more frameworks being created and more activity in them. ;) It really lays to rest this notion I remember reading about a few years ago … actually part of how my Galleon ports project came about … where a number of people were hesitant to start learning a framework for fear of chosing one that might not ultimately “win out” (as though frameworks are all competing in some strange technological equivalent of “king of the hill”).

Actually that indecisiveness about choosing a framework (and fear of it going away) is a very basic human experience – we pretty much all have it. But as I’ve said before, I don’t think any framework is likely to become a “gold standard” like used to be the case with Fusebox back when other CF frameworks were scarce. I think we’re only going to see more frameworks being created and more activity in them. ;)

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