Sean Corfield on Fusebox and Frameworks

Sean Corfield talks about the fusebox framework, lexicons and some of the dark secrets of frameworks. He also covers some Object Oriented principles such as Duck Typing and Coupling

Sean has worked in IT for over twenty years. He started out writing database systems (in assembler) and compilers (in various languages, including COBOL!) before moving in mobile telecoms and finally to the web about six years ago. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years but then turned to Java (in '97) and gave up C++, although he still maintains one of the textbook reference websites: C++ - Beyond the ARM.

Sean is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice, having written C++ coding guidelines for several companies during the 90's and more recently maintaining the Adobe ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines which are also published for the ColdFusion community. He has also given several seminar talks, both in-house and publicly, on these subjects.

Contact Sean
Fusebox mailing list or comment at http://corfield.org/blog/

Fusebox
Fusebox is the most popular framework for building ColdFusion. "Fuseboxers" find that the framework releases them from much of the drudgery of writing applications and enables them to focus their efforts on creating great, customer-focused software.

Some Quotes

"It provides a standardised structure for you applications"
"It allows me to get on and build something without me having to worry about the wiring"
"It appeals to procedural programmers.... as well as OO programmers"
"Frameworks are black boxes... they do deep dark things"
"[fusebox] you don't have to learn a lot of new techniques at once..."
"One of the nice things in fusebox 5 is the debug mode"
"I'll take time out, I'll learn it..."
"It's got the biggest, most active community"
"If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck"

Download
http://www.fusebox.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=downloads.listDownloads

Other Links
Adobe document
Adobe Connect
Whats new in Fusebox5
FLiP
Mailing List
Bug tracker and Wiki
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Notes
you can download the interview from iTunes here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/... or use the download link below
We did this using Adobe Connect and ripped the audio from that. In the interview Sean showed something within connect so if you wish to watch the broadcast you can here but you won't miss much as it's about 30 seconds.
Sorry for my low mic volume on this podcast.
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