Luis Majano on the coldbox framework

Welcome to another podcast from cfFrameworks.com. In this podcast we chat with Luis Majano on his Coldbox framework. Luis was kind enough to write out his answers as well. Click here to view them 

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. Please Support GIS!!.  He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications. He has over 7 years experience in software development, networking and system design.  He is also a freelance engineer and president of Ortus Solutions, Corp. 

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Coldbox
ColdBox is a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications. The purpose behind ColdBox was to create a fast & stable development methodology that could be shared among several developers. It makes use of an MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern implemented via CFC's. It uses event handler CFC's that hold all the code necessary to prepare views, call model CFC's or a business layer (Soap/ws/xml/J2EE) and render views (HTML).

Please look at the wiki for more up-to-date information and extensive documentation

You can look at the MVC Design Pattern diagram below:
ColdBox MVC Design Pattern

Some Quotes

"bottom line - a framework is a tool which saves me time"
"[coldbox] as I'm the creator i have to use it"
"some people think you should use a framework for everything, i don't think thats true... sometimes it can be like killing a fly with a cannon"
"It didn't start as a open source framework"
"I believe that documentation is one of the most important thing when developing an open source application"
"It comes with it's own logging"
"It has object caching, it has a lot of aspects that come bundled with it"
"The coldbox dashboard helps you manage your application"
"We all like documentation... we just don't like doing it"

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Notes

This is a first framework interview with Dan Lancelot who is helping us out here at cfFrameworks.com, so welcome Dan. 

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