Sandra Clark started a working group to discuss and come up with the Fusedoc 3.0 specification. Fusedoc are a way of specifying what a Fusebox fuse does, its inputs and outputs and other useful documentation. It is written in XML so that it is machine readable. This is long overdue and hopefully will address issues […]
TeraTech ColdFusion Blog
Fusebox 5.5 for PHP work started
We have a volunteer Philippe Back who has started work on converting Fusebox 5.5 CF to PHP together with team fusebox member Mike Richie. If you want to help with Fusebox let me know. Currently Fusebox PHP is on version 5.0 and Fusebox CF is on version 5.5
Spiral Web talk video
I recently gave a talk at the Web 2.0 conference on Spiral Web and how it can help us predict what is coming in the future for websites. Spiral Web is based on Spiral Dynamics and Memes, which are theories of how ideas spread among people. I have extended these ideas to websites for Spiral […]
TeraTech Development Approach – System Review
This is continued from last month in a continuation of TeraTech’s Development Approach 2. Discussion with users to review these artifacts produced in step 1 results in the discover of unneeded system functions and begins the process of identification of the new functionality missing from the legacy system. It is not unusual to find that […]
Would Whole Brain testing have made Windows Vista better?
I was reading Joel on Software the other day and he talked about a rumor that one of the reasons that Windows Vista release was extremely inconsistent and unpolished was that the testing was fully automated (or left brain). There was no traditional (whole brain) testing where the tester not only runs the software through […]
Fusebox Scaffolding beta released
A new beta of the Fusebox Scaffolding has been released at http://www.fusebox.org/go/fusebox-downloads/core-files. This Fusebox extension was written by Kevin Roche and it automatically generates Fusebox code for Add/Edit/Delete pages based on the database tables that you give it. Normally you would use this during the building of your app and replace the scaffolding with custom […]
Fusebox 5.5 to release 12/1/07
Fusebox 5.5 to release 12/1/07 That means you have just 3 days left to download the Public Beta and take it for a test drive! Please help us make Fusebox 5.5 to be the greatest release ever of Fusebox by testing it on your app and logging any issues you find on the Bug Tracker […]
TeraTech Development Approach – System Decomposition
This is a continuation from last months discussion on Application Architecting, FuseCoding, Unit Testing, Application Integration, and Deployment in TeraTech’s Development Approach. The TeraTech methodology centers on the practice of documentation of our work and the placement of all development artifacts into a repository along with the source code. 1. System Decomposition -Capture all system […]
Chinese Foo Camp, growth and pollution
Tim O’Reilly blog post on Chinese fast growth and pollution in his Chinese Foo Camp review made me think of the book “Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update” which I just got. If you haven’t seen it it is an analysis and computer models of where our current world is going with all the growth […]
Gmail questions…any suggestions?
Why do I see some emails that have my default email address and/or says “On behalf of (my name)”. Yikes. Not sure why some emails show this and others don’t. And I just realized that some mailing lists that I respond to will not let me send to it because I’m either not on the […]
