Hi all,
I use FuseBox development for a huge government organization. I love it to
death, but the idea is to take from it what works for you.
For me, the most useful thing about FuseBox is the standardized break-up of
CF code into separate small files, with naming conventions to take away
guess-work. This eases the task of separating logic from presentation,
facilitates multi-person development, and makes code re-use (at least within
a single application) much more natural.
There are other FuseBox-y things that I DO NOT do, like having separate URL_
files for handling redirections. That just seems like a lot of work for
only an ideological gain.
As for server overhead, I believe that extra CPU grunt, and extra RAM is a
whole lot cheaper than developer time, so I try to optimize code and
methodolgy for ease of development and maintenance, before execution
efficiency. Otherwise I'd be buried in assembler. FuseBox, in my
experience, definitely makes life easier for developer and maintainer.
There's a slight learning curve, but once you understand what's going on,
life suddenly becomes much easier, and those apps just get stamped out of
the cookie-cutter.
My advice for those who wish to explore FuseBox (which has application MUCH
wider than just CF) is to join the FuseBox mailing list (go to
houseoffusion.com), to read the powerPoint presentations on FuseBox.org, to
download the code for the FuseBox.org site and pull it apart, and to grab
the excellent FuseBox book from secretagents.com and elsewhere.
As for the person who said "if it doesn't make things easier, then you're
not doing it right", I think we can live without those kinds of Emperor's
New Clothes comments. I'm sure that some people already have their own
fabulous methodologies worked out, which may be even better than FuseBox.
If that's right, then I hope they will let us all in on it. One thing you
can say for Steve Nelson and the other FuseBox pioneers is that they have
helped a lot of CF developers do their jobs a whole lot better.
God bless us all,
Lee (Bjork) Borkman
http://bjork.net ColdFusion Tags by Bjork
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