MachII, Model-Glue, Fusebox..... Help me decide!

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December 17, 2007
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Hi my name is Tim and I am a spaghetti coder :)
Alright as my applications keep blossoming from quick little helper to full blown monsters code is becoming more and more complicated to follow to pinpoint errors and or do enhancements. I have decided instead of reinventing the wheel I want to utilize some canned frameworks to better my apps and my headaches. So I would like to get a general idea what the everyone else uses and feels is going to be around for some time. I am upgrading to CF8, using Eclipse and database wise I use MySQL, MS SQL and Oracle. I run Vista on my local machine and servers vary OS's if any of this matters. Application sizes will be from tiny to large enterprise. Thanks in advance.

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Hydrowizard

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Thanks CJ I´ll look at them. I know that it was made by Jeremy Allaire so that is going back a long way pre macromedia days!! It should still be relevant as best practise right?

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Anonymous

i'd guess the pet market app is probably a bit dated by now.

you can probably get better sample code on blogs. dan wilson has a great intro to Model-Glue series starting here:

http://www.nodans.com/index.cfm/2007/1/19/So-you-want-to-install-ModelGlueUnity

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Hydrowizard

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What about the pet market app? Not really a framework or is it...I just installed it and I like what I see maybe a good way to see a whole app with cfc and all. What do people think -a good stepping stone from spag code to oop?

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/blueprint/

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Anonymous

ill agree that fusebox would be a good place to start.

as a reforming spaghetti coder, i started with fusebox and it was very easy to pick up (relatively speaking).

i'm using Model-Glue now, and frankly, if it wasn't for understanding a framework like fusebox first, i think it would have been a lot harder. Model-Glue's tougher to jump into mainly (IMO) because of the integration of ColdSpring. I love ColdSpring (as much of it as i understand so far), so no knock on it. it's just something else to learn while learning Model-Glue, adding to the learning curve (and then of course you have the option of learning an ORM like Transfer or Reactor... oy) :)

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Anonymous

I like to setup fusebox. I am using CF7.
I used fusebox before..never setup.

Please help me to set up fusebox in server.
Any nice step by step instruction document?.

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Daverms

Inspiring

Hi,

You can find more info at,

http://fusebox.org/go/getting-started/installing-fusebox

HTH

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freakyAndFree

Inspiring

A spaghetti coder would probably be more comfortable in Fusebox than in some other frameworks, simply because the newest version of Fusebox allows for a great deal of flexibility in your application design. You can get your feet wet with an OO approach in Fusebox without being totally locked in, xml or xml-less configs, circuits can be organized into cfc's or directories, etc, etc. Lots of flexibility.

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Daverms

Inspiring

Hi,

Go through Sean's 'Framworks' presentation. Really worth reading!.