On February 18, 2003 we will be presenting at a full day Technical Conference in Long Beach CA for the SCCFUG on the subject of Fusebox and ColdFusion MX. We have spent the last few months trying to digest the effects of MX and whether Fusebox is still relevant. What we found is that Fusebox is still very relevant, the theories and goals of it, that is. To create a framework for architecting, designing and developing professional web applications that are scalable and sharable across disparate development teams and that can be easily maintained and extended. In our opinion MX brings us some wonderful new facilities and features that we are sure will improve but does not adequately address the Achilles heel of CF (also one of it�s greatest strengths, paradoxically) you can develop in CF with no framework at all
This realization came to us from this observation, having both used and purchased FB2 and 3 apps there is always a very familiar framework that can be understood and adapted very quickly and in many cases literally dropped into existing Fusebox apps with little or no change. On the other hand having already looked at several sample CFMX apps there is little or no continuity of framework in what we have seen. Fusebox is still very relevant the question is what form will it eventually take in MX? We intend to release an MX version of �Taskmanager� the famous FB30 app at the SCCFUG conference. We took some of the work already started by Hal Helms, Nat Papovich, Steve Nelson and others tweaked it a little and in the main converted most Fuses to cfcs. Hopefully between now and the 18th we can find the time to incorporate some of Hal�s thoughts on Fusebox MX into this app, if we don�t do this before we will certainly continue to do this after the event. We will make TaskmanagerMX available on our web site sometime after next week and hopefully Fusebox.org will allow us to place a downloadable version there. Hope this is of some interest. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Webapper Services LLC Web Site http://www.webapper.com Blog http://www.webapper.net Webapper <Web Application Specialists> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
