Now accelerating to Mach-ii!!!

Posted At : April 28, 2006 11:14 AM | Posted By : Brian Meloche
Related Categories: Work, Mach-ii
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.

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ColdFusion on Wheels. Do it. http://www.cfwheels.com
# Posted By Rob Cameron | 4/28/06 11:52 AM
Welcome to the Mach-II world! If you have any questions as you get going with things please feel free to contact me.
# Posted By Matt Woodward | 4/28/06 12:40 PM
I have looked at ColdFusion on Wheels, Rob... It looks interesting! Looking forward to the implementation of scaffolding.
# Posted By Brian Meloche | 5/17/06 4:58 AM
I've been working on a mach-ii app built by someone else. It's for an online store. It seems to me the framework is too bulky for a small-medium site. Timeout errors every day. Anyone have this experience too?
# Posted By Max | 11/10/06 3:11 PM
Couple of comments. First, Mach-II would not be responsible for the timeout errors. Mach-II is an extremely lightweight framework, so unless it's being misused (e.g. on a large application someone forgot to set the "production" flag and everything is reloading on every request), chances are the underlying code of the application itself is to blame. Mach-II is used on some extremely high-traffic sites (including adobe.com) with great success.

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.
# Posted By Matt Woodward | 11/11/06 1:02 PM
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