Since I promised to keep most news about my lightweight, convention-based MVC framework, FW/1 on the RIAForge project blog, this is just a quick to say it's had a few updates and is currently at build 0.6.3. Recent updates have mostly been bug fixes as more and more people start using the framework and some FW/1 sites are now in production which of course makes me very happy!

I'm planning to complete the Reference Manual soon and make another pass over the Developer's Guide and examples. I hope to declare a stable 1.0 release fairly soon!

Sean, I have never really used a framework, however, I thought it would be a good idea to check into them. I have read what people have said about this framework, it is simple. I have been reveiwing the examples that come with it, and I am lost. I don't see how functions are called, I don't see how database calls would be made, I don't see where datasource variables would be set up. I just don't understand. Maybe it is because I have not used frameworks before. What would you suggest I do to understand this better? any more robust examples that I could see with code that does call databases, and sets more on the application.cfc page?

if not I understand, just thought I look into frameworks and see if they would work for me.

thanks Dan

@Dan,

Most CFML frameworks follow the MVC design pattern which provides guidance on where / how to interact with the database and how to handle global settings.

The reason none of the FW/1 examples use a database is because that requires additional setup scripts for users (and I'd only be able to provide MySQL code).

You could always join the framework-one Google Group and ask existing FW/1 users how they do this kind of stuff.

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