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"Chase" Schema passes the test
Chase? This is the codename for our upcoming content management system. The database schema is about 95% complete. We are working on a few more tweaks but I couldn’t wait to put the schema to test…so I did.
My families personal site is simple. The only thing that may have caused issues was the news section, only in terms of data entry/retrieval. I needed to show a title and body but the body I didn’t want to hold all of the dates, etc. This would mean updating our news would be updating 1 large text block. This isn’t desired in terms of future updates (maybe an rss feed, etc). So, I figured this would be a very nice and simple test for Chase.
Needless to say (if you read the title of this post; lol), Chase passed the test and I am quite pleased. How hard was it to setup the site? Well, in terms of actual code it took me 10 to 15 minutes in Notepad. Yep, I was connected to our server and editing there so no IDE. Total it took me an hour+ but that was data entry (directly into the database; admin interface isn’t complete), setting up the sites test url in IIS (and verifying the dns entry), copy and paste files from live folder to test folder, setup CF datasource & CF app structure (copy and paste from KM’s corporate site), and fix a couple errors that came up do to the CF app setup (I was missing the ini file).
So, once allllll of those things were done and I was writing code it literally COULD have taken me 3 to 5 minutes to code 5 pages, including the repeating entries for news. Maybe using an IDE like Dreamweaver, etc I could have created the site even faster (Notepad’s copy/paste isn’t as easy; lol). If you also take away the need to create the data in the database I could have had the site going (from 0 to 60) in 20 minutes.
Oh, I can’t forget. Kode2Go Beta 2 was used to generate the CFC’s. That takes away about 3 to 4 hours of redundant CRUD code writing.
Look for more on Chase in the upcoming future. We will have a mailing list available once we get to the Beta stage. Stay tuned until then!
Posted by John C. Bland II on June 12, 2006 3:31 AM | Permalink
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