Mate - Introduction
I like frameworks. I don't know if it's because my introduction to programming was from an OO perspective, so concepts like MVC and dependency injection make a lot of sense to me, or perhaps it's because I'm somewhat OCD and like to keep my code clean and organized. Or maybe it's simply because I'm lazy. Whatever the case, Ihave been a big fan of frameworks for some time. Be they off-the-shelf open source frameworks, or home-grown mish-mashes of code. Getting to know how a new framework operates is always a daunting task. I learned a lot reading the documentation to Mach-II, but never ended up using that framework. Similarly, using the Arp framework for my first Flash desktop application (built using Zinc) was a great learning experience. I rarely build a ColdFusion application today without the help of ColdSpring and Transfer. When it comes to Flex, though, I hit a wall.