An often difficult part of software development is getting started building quickly.

There are many solutions to this problem available such as fremeworks, coding styles, and naming conventions. These solutions often fall short, the time required to get them to work just leads you to a more complicated task. I consider that adding in this case makes things more complicated and often just replaces one problem with another.

I find it most helpful to build my own simple framework. Simple being the operative word and theme. In this course we will build a future-looking ColdFusion application that has been reduced to a streamlined engine, using a very old technique, custom tags.

With our simple framework, we consolidate all of our tag invoication code into our main page. This main page calls ColdFusion custom tags which are all located in the custom_tags directory. This lead to the pattern of simplicity where a simple VSCode search will yeild both the “home” page the calls the tag, and the code of the tag it calls. Frequently these are the only two files you need to accomplish most tasks. A very friendly process.

        <cfoutput>
                <cflock timeout="5" name="LOCK_BLOG">
                        <cftry>     
                        
                                <cimblog:cimblog>  

                                        <div class="TEST">
                                                fdfasdfasd
                                        </div>                                        
                        
                                </cimblog:cimblog>   

                                <cfcatch type="any">
                                </cfcatch>  
                                
                        </cftry>
                </cflock>
        </cfoutput>      

In this code snippet we can see the important points to note:
1 import at the top
2 cfoutput is our outermost containing tag
2 cflock is next
3 now our code.

Join me in the next post where we start to fill out the app.