Archive for the ‘frameworks’ Category
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.
Model-Glue #2
I have decided to create a simple online store using model-glue. I am not convinced that this will be a trivial task.
Model-Glue #1
I have played around with Mach II one day at work, I was drawn to Mach II because it is OO to the core, unlike Fusebox.
However after reading the Sean Corfield’s frameworks comparison, I decided to give Model-Glue a go. It’s going to be similar to Mach II rather than to Fusebox and in terms of learning curve, it is in between of Fusebox and Mach II.
I spent about 1 hour to get the first example from the documentation to work. The documentation isn’t as clear as I would like it to be, the majority of my time was spent on trying to figure out why some components cannot be found by the application. It turns out that I need to create few mappings on CF server for coldspring, Reactor, ModelGlue and the sample application. This is explained on the readme.txt included on the download, but missing from the the HTML documentation.
My initial impression about any MVC frameworks that I have encountered is: “Gee that’s a lot of work”. To create a form that does some processing, I would need to create a view file, a controller file as well as configure the framework to know these files and their relationships. And I haven’t even touched the database part yet. I suppose the process will become faster and easier once I get used to the MVC process. Heck, Joe Reinhart (Model-Glue’s creator) has a demo on YouTube on how to create a blog (in 15 minutes!) using the framework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmp6E-icQo.
