With all the "argument's" against fusebox over the last while I thought it would be
nice to provide a positive example of how well it works.
Basically, our company is swamped with work and we have more projects than programmers
right now. In order to get a project started and out the door on time we had to horn
swoggle one of our db guys. We had about an hour long meeting on the project followed
by another 2 hours of "this is what fusebox is and how it works".
The next day the db guy was already coding the basic fuses though this was without any
design. I'd say fusebox has allowed us to create a basic structure which can be used
over and over and teach it just as easily. Fusebox is saving our asses and management
is none the wiser ;-P.
The best part is that he can go through the proposal and start all the sprocs,
qry_files, and act_files as none of these require any design component. We would have
used query sims but we already know all the data requirements as we get to dictate any
system data and the rest is defined by a standards org!!
On a final note, I started using Hal's devnotes/wireframe method for spec'ing out a
project and I can't provide enough positive comments about the technique. It took
about 3 days to get the wireframe done ( as the app is huge ) but once I had all the
pages done it was amazing to sit with the client and talk them through the application
without actually having an application for them. I made some modifications to the app
which I thought would help. Let me know if you agree but you can't go wrong with the
wireframe/devnotes combo...Hal thank you once again.
modifications:
-now a fusebox wireframe: my idea behind making the wireframe fusebox as well is
simply having access to variables provided by app_model. Since we already have a
fusebox skeleton all I had to do was modify the devnotes pageID to store the
fuseaction vs. the page. Since each step in the wireframe was a page I figured just
make them dsp_files and create a simple index for them.
-on big wireframes the client could potentially add comments or tasks to 50 or 60
pages, I thought it would be hard to know where they were adding stuff, so now each
entry added by the client has the ability to email me the fuseaction to which they
just added to note. so now when I come in on monday I can quickly view each entry and
go to it directly.
Cheers,
Emilio
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