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.
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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
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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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