Archive for the ‘model-glue’ Category
Bean discussion
I’ve got a headache reading the discussion on this Model-Glue thread:
Beans question
But it’s a very good reading indeed, it’s quite enlightening to see how people discuss OO not only from the academic point of view but also from the commercial and real world application point of view.
One of things that I want to achieve this year is to get acquainted once again with OO. After doing 8 years of uni, I thought I know OO, but that’s so far from the truth.
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.
