Great point. If you do get a chance, take a non-time critical project and play with Mach-II and Model-Glue (there are lots of great MVC frameworks, but those are the two "reference" frameworks you want to start with) to get the hang of things, but in the meantime, start with Fusebox and maybe consider porting pieces of your model to OO (perhaps breaking out the SQL into its own separate cfcs - just Google ColdFusion DAO for lots of good information) to start to get comfortable with the principles.
Best Wishes, Peter On 3/13/07 11:24 AM, "Matt Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Getting back to Joe and his original question, I would say that > Fusebox probably is the best answer to what he is looking for. > > But with that said, I would also say that if your ultimate goal is OO > and an OO-based framework, then just do it. If you have no experience > with any framework or any OO, then take Matt and Peter's advice from > the CF Weekly podcast: go learn some OO concepts, especially CFCs and > how they work. Google "Coldfusion OO", "Coldfusion CFC", "ColdFusion > component" and start reading, start playing with some code. There are > many excellent resources for learning OO, frameworks, etc. And there > are many great email lists such as this one to ask questions on, > bounce ideas off, etc. If you are more comfortable having one person > to go to, there are several people here (including myself) who may > even be willing to act as a mentor in your learning process. > > Understanding CFCs and how they can represent your business model and > data is not too difficult. It does take some time. But that ime is > considered a wise investment in yourself and your programming career > (not just CF). You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
