An Architect's View

I'm pleased to announce that Ryan Cogswell has joined the Framework One team as a committer! Ryan has been providing excellent feedback on the framework for quite a while and always provides suggested code changes with his ideas. I've been incorporating almost everything that he has raised so I felt it was time to provide him with full Subversion access and become a full-fledged member of the development team. Ryan's recent additions to FW/1 include a number of enhancements that make the framework more robust and more flexible, especially around error situations or accidental misuse of certain framework features - which all help developers be more successful with FW/1. The latest enhancement from Ryan is the ability to string together multiple FW/1 applications as "subsystems" so that URLs can take the form app1:section.item and app2:section.item, allowing for modular construction of large, complex applications. New modules can just be dropped in alongside existing modules and seamlessly integrated! Nice work Ryan - thank you! As the FW/1 mailing list has grown to nearly 80 members since I launched the project in late July and several people have sites in production based on FW/1, I'm going to start blogging more here as I feel it is now realistic to start promoting FW/1 as a serious option for CF developers at large who are looking for a framework that provides structure without getting in the way. I'll be submitting talks to cf.Objective() 2010 and CFUnited 2010 that will introduce FW/1 to a larger audience (if the talks are accepted, of course)!