Project moreADS Back In Production

I know I've been absent for a while, and I'd lie if I said I had any good excuse for not posting anything during that time. To be honest, I hit some kind of a down, and it's been really hard getting back up. Work was at an all-time stressful high, and any extra-curricular time I had was spent trying to get some of the pressure off. However some projects that were being held back have since been launched, and work has begun on some new ones. I'm starting to get excited about my job again, which is a big thing considering the last couple of weeks.

One of the things that's gotten me so excited is the fact that I'm finally decided to start working with a framework and see how it goes. Now I've seen the discussions that this kind of post seems to generate, and I'm not here to say which framework is better than the others. Several people have been recommending Model-Glue, while others seem to prefer ColdBox. Personally, I think that as long as it helps you stick to best practices, namely Model-View-Controller and other sweet programming designs you'll probably see me write about in the following posts, it comes down to personal taste.

I've downloaded both frameworks, installed and sampled some applications on each. After a couple days spent on testing them out, ColdBox seemed more familiar to me. It might've been the fact that Event Handlers (Controllers) are in components rather than in XML (no need to reinit the framework for the new Event Handlers to register), or the fact that ColdBox is largely documented (there's a new plugin available for Eclipse, you can browse the entire API from within the IDE you actually code in!).

And what better place to try this new framework out than on Project moreADS? Sure, it's been on the back burner for a while, which is exactly why we need to throw that old pan out and start from scratch. I'm excited to see how developing an entire application will take now that I'm taking advantage of a framework. Only time will tell, I guess.

Baby steps, John. Baby steps.