Joshua Cyr

Fusebox Organization Writing applications within a multi person team can be difficult. Sharing applications between two teams can become even more difficult. Effectively sharing applications with 30,000 other developers such as with the ColdFusion® community is almost impossible... unless everyone adheres to standards for writing these shared applications. The Fusebox Organization has been assembled to create these standards. This paper will give specification recommendations to the FuseBox organization for determining how FuseBox applications and databases should be designed. The paper is split up into three recommendations: File structures Code design Database design. Example Web Application Before looking at what the recommendations are, it is important to examine how a web application works. Let's look at a quick case of a User named: 'Steve Nelson' logging into... (more)

Have You Checked Out FuseBox?

Editors Note: This article is an introduction to FuseBox. Look for a full featured article on FuseBox in the coming month. FuseBox is a standards group for the ColdFusion Mark Up Language, created by and for ColdFusion developers. FuseBox is the podium used to unite developers behind common practices and ideas to further aid in the development of useful programming solutions for everyone. While still in its infancy, this group is researching and developing methods for application developers to create applications that will easily connect to other third party applications. These a... (more)