The ColdFusion Weekly Podcast, hosted by Matt Woodward, has a new episode. The topic this time is Flex Frameworks, and I am on it! I talk about the soon-to-be-released Mate framework and my presentation at cf.Objective(), which is rapidly approaching.

It was an interesting discussion, with supporters of Cairngorm (Thomas Burleson and Jeff Houser to some extent), two frameworks creators (Chris Scott and me), users of PureMVC (Kurt Wiesma), and no-framework proponents (Maxim Porges). Though Thomas is a supporter of Cairngorm (he wrote Cairngorm's training materials for Adobe), he created extensions that address some of the shortcomings Cairngorm has. These extensions were recently released to the public. He talks more extensively about them in the Flex podcast. And you will see that what Maxim is really against are not frameworks per se, but the excessive boiler plate code that many frameworks make you write.

The Rountable was a little over an hour long, but let me tell you, this discussion can be extended for hours, and even then, it would be impossible to agree on which framework is better or which framework you should use. ColdFusion developers here know that the same debate has been done between all the different ColdFusion frameworks and nobody has the definite answers to those questions. Though, when it comes to Flex frameworks, I am a little biased :)