huhmmmmm ... kinda weird that your site is fusebox - dontcha think?
Steve
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From: "Karl Simanonok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: fusebox
> I have used the Fusebox development methodology for several projects, as
> have most of the developers I work with. We all dislike it. It
> slightly increases development time, obfuscates CF debugging, and
> necessitates superfluous code and processing time by routing every page
> call through an index.cfm. We now only use it when clients insist that
> they want their applications built around it (usually they've heard a
> little about Fusebox and think it's cutting-edge so they want it without
> really understanding it).
>
> A well-designed and well-written application does not need to be redone
> in Fusebox to make it better. However, a poorly-designed or
> poorly-written application may benefit from Fusebox because then it will
> be somewhat easier for later programmers to come in and fix it. I would
> only recommend that a new application be written Fusebox-style if it is
> going to be very large and complex, there will be a lot of developers
> working on the application, and if many of those developers are
> ColdFusion beginners (and then only if you ignore the terrible
> filenaming conventions). That's because Fusebox does have some value in
> making the page-flow logic easier to follow for people who are not
> familiar with all of the application, or who are CF beginners. That's
> its only significant advantage. Otherwise you can avoid some unnecessary
> development time (and later CPU overhead) and focus on programming the
> application's logic flow according to your business needs rather than
> shoehorning it into the somewhat arbitrary Fusebox development
> methodology.
>
> If you're really having trouble deciding whether to use Fusebox or not,
> it may be helpful if you ask yourself what's more important in your
> situation: adopting the latest fads in CF development methodologies, or
> optimizing your application?
>
> Regards,
>
> Karl Simanonok, staff consultant
> Advanta Solutions, Inc.
>
> Original message:
> ===========
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:35:26 -0600
> From: "Craig Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: fusebox
> Message-ID: <005801c045ee$becf3f00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Yes! Fusebox rocks. It has made my code smaller, more manageable, more
>
> reuseable and easier to understand while being loose enough to let me do
>
> whatever I need to get the job done. I HIGHLY recommend fusebox to any
> CFDeveloper. It is based on Object Oriented Concepts that standard
> desktop
> programming environments have had for years but which web development
> hasn't
> been really able to take advantage of.
>
> The new job I am at has adopted it as company policy because of me and
> so
> did my last job. Also, fUseML is pretty useful although I am still
> learning
> it. They have a book published on Fusebox and fuseml that looks pretty
> good. The print version hasn't been shipped yet but if you buy it you
> get
> the .PDF version pretty quick and then the print later.
>
> go to http://www.fusebox.org
>
> -Craig Bowes
> Coldfusion Programmer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 972.243.1171
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 2:53 PM
> Subject: fusebox
>
>
> > Is anyone out there using the fusebox methodology?
> >
> > I have recently started this position here and I am the Cold Fusion
> lead
> and
> > I was toying with the idea of recommending that we use the Fusebox
> method
> > for the complete REdeployment of our corporate Intranet.
> >
> >
> > any feedback is well appreciated.
> >
> > chris.alvarado
> > cold.fusion - developer
> > [phone] 512.794.6563
> > [email] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [web] http://www.tmanage.com
> >
>
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