Mike Benner

ColdBox Works Out Of The Proverbial Box (Dare I Say Day 1)

Dec 3 by Michael Benner

I must say, sometimes I just feel like the stars align and it clicks. Then again, maybe it is just the hard work Luis put forth. As I said the other day, I watch the preso on ColdBox 2.5 and I thought I would give it a try. So before leaving for the airport I download CF8 developer edition and ColdBox 2.5 RC2. While at the airport I installed them both. I spent the next few hours reading "I Am Legend" and forgetting about the install. Then when I landed

in Houston I finished the book on my "extended" layover.

After shuffling between gates and getting on to the plane, I realized, "I have nothing to read" and I was not in the mood to play the PSP, so I got my MacBook down and fired up ColdBox. I clicked on the examples and saw what they did, then I opened the source in Aptana (Eclipse) and started having a peak around. Now, at this point I must say, I wish there was more offline documentation (or a reminder to install the dictionary into Eclipse) so I could know more of my options.

However, after some tweaks to existing samples to see what happened I was able to slap together a simple site. Thats right on my plane ride from Houston to Phoenix I was able to learn enough about the framework to create from scratch (using the application generator in the dashboard) a website that had multiple views, layouts and even different event handlers for different portions of the site.

Wow, this was eye opening. I finally get the whole MVC thing once and for all. I finally found a framework that makes sense (to me) and is easy to use (dashboard rocks). I wish I had read up more before I left (I needed to download MySQL and TRANSFER) to really get experimenting, so that will be tomorrow, but in the meantime, I will have to say, that ColdBox has solidified itself as the leader in replacing my company's homebrew framework.

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I am glad to hear Michael!! More good stuff is coming in next versions. Hope you are enjoying 2.5

# Posted By Luis Majano | 1/22/08 9:26 PM

It is great, I got buried with a project, but will be posting more infor on what I consider the best CF Framework available. Thanks for all the hard work.

# Posted By Mike Benner | 1/28/08 1:15 PM

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