For what its worth, I recently but together a CFWheels app in no time,
having not known the framework (but familiar with rails) and simply
looking through the codebase and docs.

I'm not pushing wheels, but for a quick crud app which ihmo thats all
a blog is, i would check it out.

-George


On May 8, 8:45 pm, Barney Boisvert <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a hard time believing you can't use at least the bottom half
> (i.e. not the presentation layer) of an existing solution.  Use it for
> all the business logic, pings, trackbacks, feeds, comments,
> moderation, spam checking, etc, but integrate the UI into whatever
> you're building.  Simple blogging is really simple (the three entities
> you enumerated cover it), but covering all the ancillary functionality
> is a bitch.
>
> Obviously I don't know your situation, but I'd encourage you to at
> least think it through all the way before you completely discount at
> least a partially third party solution.
>
> cheers,
> barneyb
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Henry Ho <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys.. but due to some requirements, I cannot just do an
> > integration job.  It wouldn't work with the overall project.
>
> > Henry
>
> > On May 8, 8:27 pm, Barney Boisvert <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm with Marc.  Rolling your own blogging solution is the correct
> >> choice about as often as CAPTCHA is (i.e. virtually never).  There is
> >> too much good software out there already, most of which you'll never
> >> be able to compete with in terms of ongoing development.
>
> >> cheers,
> >> barneyb
>
> >> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Mark Mandel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Just steal the tBlog sample app?
> >> >http://docs.transfer-orm.com/wiki/Example_Code.cfm
>
> >> > Why not just integrate BlogCFC, or MangoBlog?
>
> >> > Mark
>
> >> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Henry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >> I need a simple Blog app done quick, but when I got down into it, I
> >> >> couldn't justify doing it in an OO way.
>
> >> >> Service / Bean / DAO... with the Beans don't have anything smart to do
> >> >> on themselves...
>
> >> >> I came up with the Blog, Entry and Comment beans.  Blog has many Entry
> >> >> (s); Entry has many Comment(s).
>
> >> >> Then I couldn't think much methods that the beans above should have to
> >> >> make them smart.
>
> >> >> Then I thought about loading of blog / entry / comments from DB...
> >> >> when to lazy load when not to... Array of Entry objects with an array
> >> >> of Comment objects... Seems complicated, bloated and unnecessary for a
> >> >> simple blog.
>
> >> >> Transfer? Ya, that will help, but I'm not sure if I want to use it for
> >> >> such a simple blog app...  and every bean will become Transfer's
> >> >> decorators... What if I decide not to use it later?
>
> >> >> CFGroovy + Hibernate? Ya, that sounds sweet, but... when this app
> >> >> needs to be upgraded to CF9, I might have problem without disabling
> >> >> CF9's hibernate support.
>
> >> >> CFINSERT and CFUPDATE crossed my mind... I must be crazy.
>
> >> >> Please help. :)  Should a simple Blog be in OO?
>
> >> >> I should study BlogCFC over this weekend. :)
>
> >> > --
> >> > E: [email protected]
> >> > W:www.compoundtheory.com
>
> >> --
> >> Barney Boisvert
> >> [email protected]http://www.barneyb.com/
>
> --
> Barney Boisvert
> [email protected]http://www.barneyb.com/

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