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/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
