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Last night MG saved my life

May 13, 2006 ·

Ok, a bad put for a headline, but I have to give a massive thank you to Joe Rinehart. His Model Glue framework has literally saved my bacon this week.  He also gave me some great pointers over the last three days, standard stuff really but during the heat of battle he clarified how it should work very nicely.

I have done my first commercial (i,e. paid for by a client at work) application in Model Glue. For this application (I cant say who its for or much about what it does yet) I had estimated would take me 5 to 7 days to build. Unfortunately another project got in the way and I had a hard deadline for this project which left me with THREE days to build it. I used MG and Reactor for this applicaiton, starting on wednesday and I got it finished, with tweaks and testing by friday at 6pm, with enough time to go down the pub.

The experience of being able to do a well structured, documented application in three days, all the while knowing you havent "Kludged" or put things together with bits of string to make the deadline is a very good sensation.

So a massive hats of to Joe Rinehart and also to Doug Hughes for the two frameworks that are a REAL time saver.

On a side note, I made some modifications to CFEclipse as I mentioned before, and even though they are not production ready or fully featured, the component insight has helped a hell of a lot with this project.
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Tags: cfeclipse · coldfusion · model-glue · reactor

6 responses

  • 1 Brian // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    "He also gave me some great pointers over the last three days, standard stuff really but during the heat of battle he clarified how it should work very nicely."

    You should share what you learned over those three days, I am sure everyone would benefit.

  • 2 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    Ineed I should! I shall add some pointers this evening (I dont have the code in front of me at the moment)

  • 3 Kurt Wiersma // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    Any chance we can try out the component insight in the nightlies?

  • 4 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    It should be in the nightly, but it isnt really production ready at all, it doesnt work in CFSCRIPT and the variable has to be named after the component. so its of very limited use.

  • 5 Az // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    Are the roadmaps on the CFEclipse site going to be updated sometime to reflect your current development efforts and release plan?

    The 1.3 release has already missed it's target date and I'm sure there are a lot of people in the community that would love to know the status of the planned features and a new estimated release date.

    It might be nice to maintain a feature list that lets everyone know the current stable features in the nightly and what features would be considered "use at your own risk".

    Thanks!

  • 6 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    You are right, its out of date, I have been writing a new website that we can content manage and update. As well as that I have been doing some work with variable completion. That is a BIG chunk of work especially for objects and invoking CFC's.

    I shall post up an update with new features.

    One think we will do is probably add a blog on cfeclipse, where we will post all new check-ins into the CVS repository and explain what they are and the feature they fix/add

    Things are happening... it is sometimes difficult to tell everyone since I am managing the site/the base code/ and basically everything else at the moment.