Right after the OpenCF Summit earlier this year, I read a few blog posts in which people mention the topic of "More Apps, Not Frameworks" (or something along those lines). If you haven't heard about it, this is basically the idea that CFML already has enough solid frameworks out there, and we don't need any more. What we need are more free, open source CFML apps that can help spread the use of CFML. Now, I'm not here to argue or debate whether or not we need more frameworks or not, the point of this post is to simply ask one question. If we do start building more and more open source CFML applications, should we use frameworks for those applications?

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For a while now I've been in a rut. I'm not really sure of the cause, but lately I just haven't had the passion I once had for writing code. The spark seemed to be gone. I really haven't had much of a desire to work on any of my side projects, and getting stuff done for clients sometimes seems like a chore. Maybe it's because we've mainly just been doing tedious bug fixes at work for a while and no new development, or maybe it's because I lost a couple of my side contracts since they're moving away from CF. It may just be a side effect of me getting some non-programming hobbies and focusing my time on something else. Whatever the reason, sitting in front of my computer when I'm not at work is not something that I've wanted to do lately. In fact, I've found myself coming up with excuses NOT to get on the computer. But, that all changed last night.

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Several months ago I decided that I wanted to learn a CF framework and use it for an application I was working on. Not for any particular reason other than I've always heard a lot about the various frameworks and decided it was time to learn one.

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There's been a lot of buzz lately (more than usual) around the various CF Frameworks, and whether some of them are dead or alive and kicking. I've never used any of the frameworks much (although I've recently started getting into ColdSpring). I've tinkered with a few of them, just to see what they're about, but that's pretty much been the extent of it. That's probably about to change.

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