Best FW/1 Preso I've seen yet.

February 26, 2013

I'm spending today refactoring an older web app. Specifically, I'm...

Replacing the older UI with Bootstrap (for no real reason other than get more practice with Bootstrap)...
Adding ColdSpring 1.2 (this app doesn't really NEED a full fledged AOP framework, but it's an easy app to use for some experimenting, so I'll add this too, for future reference)....
Removing the older MVC code and replacing it with FW/1 version 2...

The legacy code is already MVC, but it's not using a standard framework. Whenever possible, I'm refactoring my older legacy apps into an MVC framework of some kind (for all the usual reasons, which I won't bore you with here). While doing some Googling around today to look up a few bits of FW/1 documentation, I came across this presentation from Steven Neiland entitled "Crash Course in MVC With FW/1" and I must say, this is one of the best FW/1 presentations I've seen yet! Steven does a great job at starting with the basics, and walking through many of the finer points of FW/1 at a nice pace, answering questions along the way.

One of my pet peeves about presentations is when the demos only use what I refer to as "hello test code". (You know the ones...). Steven's demos are more "real world" in nature -- not so much that you lose track of why one would implement FW/1, but definitely more relatable than a "hello world" app would have been. I feel this always makes for a much better audience experience, and I tend to give more validity to presenters that build such things.

If you're still trying to learn FW/1 (or even just need a refresher on a feature or 2 in the framework, as I did earlier), check out the recording of this presentation here.

-nolan