Thanks Mark, I was aware of the points you have made, but is doesn't hurt to highlight these to the whole list (the more developers making use of mach-ii, the better it will become :-) )
Sean Corfield has done a great job with his dev giude, and if you follow his outlines, you can't really go wrong. I found it a bit daunting at first to udenrstand how it all fits together, but after doing some reading in the forums and working through the steps, it took me 2 weeks to get together a working app we use internally with our web apps to show online help. I'm a big advocate for its use after sitting down and using it. I look forward to hearing Sean explain how macromedia is using mach-ii to develop online applications on their site at MXDU. I'm really interested in an end-to-end methodology though, one that takes you through the design steps before you sit down and start to write your CF code. I need to be able to produce docs for developers, and I've been doing a fair bit of reading on UML and OO design methodologies. I'm currently writing a list of requirements and how we plan on designing the site, but the boss is really keen for us to use a methodology which I'm trying to get together for our needs. I'd like to share my experiences with others, and try and leverage of those of other users too, especially those who have had experience in detailled OO project design. We are looking to do quite a large project in mach-ii, and our design will need to be strong before we can get funding and start to code it. Cheers, Steve -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen Bosworth Application Development and Integration Communication and Information Services The University of Newcastle, Australia Phone: 02 4921 6574 Fax: 02 4921 7087 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/12/2003 12:05:30 pm >>> Hi Stephen I'm using MachII a bit. Have completed one job & am half way through the second one. >I'm after some guidance in what methodologies/tools you are using with mach-ii. Hmm, not really sure how to answer that one. Tools - the usual, anything you usually use to develop CF applications. Methodologies - I guess I'm pretty much using the approach that Sean has written about in his MachII guidelines (http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/machiidevguide/index.html). The only thing that I am really doing different is making liberal use of pagelets (see www.benorama.com) for generic UI components. Overall I think MachII is a pretty good approach. It probably takes a bit longer in the first instance when initially setting up a site (i.e. there are tasks that I could get done quicker if I was just throwing things together). But I've found it really saves you as the project grow & change. Performance wise its really quick as most of the framework logic is cached in the application scope. If you've got more specific questions let me know. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
