Apr
28Now accelerating to Mach-ii!!!
Posted By: Brian Meloche; Posted At : April 28, 2006 11:14 AM
Related Categories: Mach-ii, Work
As suggested from last night's post, I am about to be knee-deep in Mach-ii. We're redesigning much of our main site at work to make it Mach-ii, as part of an initiative to support third-party products on our website. We're going to be rearchitecting our application to be Mach-ii from its existing hodgepodge of coding styles.
Mach-ii was selected as the framework over Fusebox. I am not really sure how much Model-Glue was evaluated. Unfortunately, I was not part of the selection process.
Since the new version is going to be incompatible with the existing website, there is going to be an unspecified amount of time to maintain two code bases, which is going to suck.
Second, the benefit you'll see in using a framework is as that "small" site grows over time into a larger application, which happens all the time. Maintenance is far less painful with the use of a framework like Mach-II, and it helps you architect your applications so they withstand even large changes over time.