Getting Moving Again...
Things have been rough on the work front lately, but I'm starting to finally move forward again. It's been about 6 months since I've actually built anything worth mentioning, and I'm finally starting to get back into it :)
So today I'm working on a top secret app using ColdBox, ColdSpring, and Transfer, the super trifecta of ColdFusion development (that's my own personal opinion, your mileage may vary) and I'm starting to get the hang of it. I'm doing all of this development locally on my Mac using a VMWare installation of Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 with Eclipse as my development IDE of choice.
As I move forward, I'm hoping to have the time to post some of my thoughts here on how it all fits together. I've done lots of OO programming over the last two years, but nothing quite like the "pure" MVC that ColdBox and the rest of the frameworks work within. I've generally developed with a View and a Model, but never with the controller in the middle. The new app I'm working on will have external non-CF clients that will need access to the model and a completely different set of views, so I think this is really going to take my development skills to the next level.
So as I move forward, my sincere thanks (already) to Luis Majano and Mark Mandel for all the work they do in both building and supporting their frameworks.