Archive for the ‘coldbox’ Category
Playing with ColdBox (and Transfer)
I have spent the past 2 weeks building a simple application using ColdBox Framework and I quite like the progress of it.
The application that I am building is an online exam application. I am going to put some questions from Ben Forta’s CF7 Certification book on the application. I thought it would be fun to build an exam application so that guys at work can see how well they know their CF, but in the end I would also want to use this to help me with my ColdFusion Certification.
I think the front end is about 80% done. In terms of logic, ColdBox does not feel that much difference with Model-Glue. It is a bit nicer in that I don’t have to deal with XML as much as I have to with Model-Glue. With this project I am also hoping to be able to learn Transfer ORM as well. I have built my model using a non ORM approach, that is I hand written all the SQL meself, that’s phase is sort of finished now. The next phase is to actually re-written the the model using Transfer.
And once I get the hang of Transfer, I am hoping to build the back end. Phew, I am glad to be able to keep my interest high with these two frameworks. I sort of neglecting my Model-Glue online store project, hopefuly I will be able to finish that off as well (sometimes next year).
Sporadic Learning
Yep, that’s my method of learning, basically I just learn whatever it is that comes to my fancy. A while ago it was Model-Glue, a week ago it was Flex, lo and behold, I am now captivated by ColdBox!
I guess this also can be considered as my weaknesses, being unable to be interested in one thing for long if I am not forced too. With learning these frameworks and Flex, there’s no one really asking me to do it, so there’s no pressure and I am completely free to choose whether I want to continue learning the technology or not. I need to prioritize better, I need to think through which of “the oh so many wonderful things to learn”, that can be reasonably beneficial to my career and to whoever that hires me (or will employ me).
I guess my sporadic learning at the moment is bounded by Adobe related things and web development in general, I haven’t stepped in to Ruby on Rails yet, although each day I am getting more and more compelled to at least give it a try.
