RidingTheClutch is back
February 14th, 2007
Yes, after months of absence, a new server and a couple new jobs, I’m back. My newest pursuit is all things Ruby and Rails (this blog is running on Mephisto . I released ColdFusion on Wheels to little fanfare in the community. If one of the big guys don’t pick up on your framework it’s pretty much destined to fail. There’s a little bit of closed-mindedness in every programming community, but the CF community seems particularly susceptible. After all, didn’t we invent rapid application development? How dare some little upstart framework claim to do something better/faster/easier? And why would someone then come along and adopt the best parts of that framework for our own beloved language?
My own development of Wheels is on hiatus for a while, but until then my co-core-committer, Per Djurner is taking over the helm. The Google Group is still hopping and there are a couple production sites out there running on Wheels (they should be posted to cfwheels.com
11 Responses to “RidingTheClutch is back”
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March 6th, 2007 at 02:48 PM I hope you'll keep up the good work on the CF Wheels project. I noticed that the latest release has no model component yet. Wouldn't it be easy to just plug in Reactor and get it working? I have my own little framework that mimics Rails (though much simpler) and that's what I do. It's working pretty well for me so far, although I haven't used it on anything large scale.
March 7th, 2007 at 06:58 AM Good to see you're back online. I, for one, am glad that there's other voices out there in the CF community that don't fall lock step into what the "big guys" dictate as the "correct ways" Now that that's out of the way, lets talk about something fun like...umm...ruby!
March 29th, 2007 at 05:04 AM Well, I for one want to thank you for all the effort you put into Wheels. All my new CF projects are using 0.6 Lite and create my own models the old fashioned way! :)
March 29th, 2007 at 01:06 PM Hi, I'm looking for Rob Cameron. Looks like you guys took over his domain. Any news on the guy. Thanks!
April 10th, 2007 at 12:33 PM
What’s up Mark! Where have YOU been? This site is still me. :)
April 27th, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Hello,
Do you still suppose Ruby Weaver? I see all kinds of links to your site on Google related to a plug in for Dreamweaver for ROR development.
Thanks Steve
May 11th, 2007 at 02:34 PM
37 signals has a link to your site for a Cold Fusion CFC Wrapper for the Backpack API, but your site says that content cannot be found. Is there someplace else I can find this page?
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Hi,
I would like to download rubyweaver too :) Could you mail me the link?
Keep with the great work!
May 30th, 2007 at 02:04 PM
RubyWeaver:
http://rubyweaver.gilluminate.com/
July 29th, 2007 at 01:57 AM
Do you still have the 37 Signals Backpackit CFC?. It would be greatly appreciated and save me a whole lot of valuable time!!
Thanks!
July 30th, 2007 at 09:46 AM
You know, I thought I still had a copy in my actual Backpack account but I’m not seeing it. I may have a copy on an old hard drive, let me search through that and I’ll let you know what I find!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 PM
After hanging out with the EXTJS guys for a minute (and may I say, not always pleasant) and traveling around searching for the “Holy Grail” of frameworks, I think I am going to come home again to CF and CFWheels is looks like the vehicle. I was relatively active with the COAL guys and I loved the framework. I would hate for another good product to just ease away into the sunset because a couple of other frameworks have been around longer. Hopefully I’ll see u guys in the forums.
May 7th, 2008 at 03:37 AM
Thanks for this interesting article.