Looking for a CFWheels mentor & co-developer.

[kristof polleunis]

I'm about to start on a project I have been wanting to do for quite some time but never started it.  Now I want to do this in CFWheels but I'm not proficient enough with the framework to do this project.

I'm looking for someone who is very good with cfwheels and who knows the best practises and can help me improve my coding.   I need someone to answer my questions, guide me, think along with me, help me design the database, review, amend and improve my code and help me with coding parts of the site.  I believe it would take 2-3 hours a day.  It's my intention to do most of the coding but your help will be needed.

Since this is not a client project and I'm currently without a job,  I can't offer a lot to pay for your time, but we can discuss about an hourly rate or project rate or profit-sharing when the site goes live, I'm open for suggestions.

The project is basically some sort of e-commerce site similar to this one (http://lunch.be/index.aspx?lang=EN) but with more advanced features,  I will provide more details if you contact me.  A payment system will also have to be integrated, possibly Paymill (a European Stripe clone).

It will be Railo 4 /MySQL based or any other open source database on an ubuntu server.  I intend to use Twitter Bootstrap with Less for the layout, ajax where possible.  The webserver will be either Tomcat or Jetty with Nginx in front hosted on Linode.

Contact me via email: kristof.polleunis <at> gmail.com

[tpet...@gmail.com]

One big question I have is if you're doing this in order get learn the framework or if you're doing this to start a company? In your post you mention that you are out of work right now. As much as its an honor that you're choosing wheels as your framework to write your site, the last thing I want you to do is to let learning wheels get in the way of of getting your business off the ground and to market. there will be more then enough time later in life to learn wheels.

[Chris G]

Tony,

Are you saying that learning wheels in the course of coding a startup company is a bad idea? If so, I'd strongly disagree. That's exactly what I've been doing (am doing actually). There are many reasons, but here are the top two...

1. There's no better motivator to learn something than have a practical purpose for it.
2. Wheels gave me a solid starting place for rapid application development with the added bonus of helping me keep the site organized and manageable.

That said, I'm certainly no expert and learn something new everyday, sometimes by necessity, other times for fun. Either way, I'm extremely thankful to Ben Riordan for turning me on to the framework. The core team has done an amazing job with this platform and no doubt will continue to astound and amaze the community. Of course, this from a guy who actually liked fusebox too, but that's only because back then there was no wheels to compare it to :)

Chris

[tpet...@gmail.com]

i'm NOT saying that learning wheels for coding a startup is a bad idea. what is a bad idea is trying to learn _anything_ new when the project you're going to start is going to be your main source of income, you need to get to market as fast as possible and you can code it in a week with the `way you know how`. way extend the timeline simply to learn something that doesn't have to be learned at that point. The _last_ I want for kristof is for him to get 3 weeks into his project, he starts feeling the pressure of a deadline looming and its all because he trying to learn something new while coding a time critical application.

now by all means, if there is no rush to market and you can spare the time and money, then learn and play with whatever new technologies you want to.

[kristof polleunis]

Tony,  I have written stuff in CFWheels already, so I'm not completely new to it.  I just feel that I'm stuck on a level that prevents me to get to the next level.  

Going with what I know is not an option.  I'm not that good with PHP either, have been looking at RoR on and of but half way through learning it I gave up on it for various reasons but I still like it.  What I know is mostly front-end stuff and what is left from doing Coldfusion in 2005 with fusebox.  That fusebox knowledge is (luckily) buried deep in my head somewhere.  

I have been experimenting with Railo a lot and wrote a few apps using CFWheels but these apps were rather simple CRUD apps. So I'm afraid CFWheels is what I know best at this moment, but I feel I'm stuck on a certain level and I'm not making much progress. 

Also I'm being pragmatic here, I'm optimistic about the future of the cfml/railo combo even though the future for ACF doesn't look all to bright but I also don't want to put all my hopes on it.  So having a framework that is inspired by RoR, I believe is better in the sense that it's easier to port to RoR if that need would arise at some point in the future because the philosophy and structure is similar.