Ok, a bad put for a headline, but I have to give a massive thank you to Joe Rinehart. His Model Glue framework has literally saved my bacon this week.  He also gave me some great pointers over the last three days, standard stuff really but during the heat of battle he clarified how it should work very nicely.

I have done my first commercial (i,e. paid for by a client at work) application in Model Glue. For this application (I cant say who its for or much about what it does yet) I had estimated would take me 5 to 7 days to build. Unfortunately another project got in the way and I had a hard deadline for this project which left me with THREE days to build it. I used MG and Reactor for this applicaiton, starting on wednesday and I got it finished, with tweaks and testing by friday at 6pm, with enough time to go down the pub.

The experience of being able to do a well structured, documented application in three days, all the while knowing you havent "Kludged" or put things together with bits of string to make the deadline is a very good sensation.

So a massive hats of to Joe Rinehart and also to Doug Hughes for the two frameworks that are a REAL time saver.

On a side note, I made some modifications to CFEclipse as I mentioned before, and even though they are not production ready or fully featured, the component insight has helped a hell of a lot with this project.