That's darn close to the phoniest troll I've seen this year. I say we give it
the Rubber Bloodworm Award.
- Jeff
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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