I know Ray just announced the development of BlogCFC 5.0, and I really admire and respect Ray for his contributions to the CF community. I just came up with the idea of porting blogCFC to an MVC framework, not Model-Glue, but a methodology that I use every day and it has proven to be extremely scalable to me. I also use ajaxCFC with my framework, and will be adding Ajax components to the blog; it won't be a one page RIA, but only small usability elements that would be nice to have.

So the question is ... should I wait until Ray released blogCFC 5, or should I branch it to a new version, using MVC and Ajax, branch a new open source project, and write a journey of my project ... again, just like Ray did with the Model-Glue series .. you see Ray! You're an inspiration :)

I'll take votes, hehe ... I know I want to write this, but I'm skeptical about missing some nice additions once the new version is out. It will be impossible to migrate those without rewriting them too.

Who votes for branching now and says wait? please back your side...

so I'm reading this blog about how Rail doesn't have a chance or simply won't go mainstream, and I actually agree... RoR has two sides... one, it is just another MVC framework, this time for Ruby instead of other languages... this is nothing new, they come and go and I don't see why it would have more attention than any other... the second part is its Ajax compatibility, using prototype and scriptaculous. so it now combines too nice aspects. We're only debating that part now ... this leads me to think who/what would go mainstream? Well, Avalon and XAML will probably penetrate hard and catch all the .net developers' attention ... Laszlo couldn't compete with Flex, but does it have a chance in the Ajax world? Zimbra, Tibco, Yahoo Patterns, IBM Open Ajax efforts ... which framework or toolkit is going to get more attention ... or is it even important? Maybe there will be no mainstream, and Ajax will just become another technique that's just assumed to be known by any and every web developer. I think that these toolkits are targeting more RIA development using JS/DHTML more than Ajax. So now a framework has to contain a nice solid MVC server side, Ajax scripting, and an IDE, possibly Eclipse based... wow ... who dares to predict it?

That's right ... I use Tortoise SVN for Windows, and Subeclipse for my eclipse development... Version 1.0.0 was released today and it cannot be installed through the automated update, you need to install it manually.

More information can be found @ the subeclipse _press_ release.

Joe Walker announced today that DWR 2.0 has reached milestone one ... among other things, DWR now does reverse Ajax, Comet, or server polling, however you wish to call it ... what that means is that you can leave a number of long lived http open calls and the server can push data to the client at will ... The idea is great, but I am a little concern about the server side performance ...

And yes, you guessed it right ... you will see a CF version when time permits :)