The final results for the 2019 State of the CF Union survey are out. Thanks to all the CFers who filled it out this year. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods. 1. What version of CFML Engine do you use? (Check all that apply) Others 2. What type of […]
State-of-the-Art Tools That Keep ColdFusion Alive
Am I the only one who gets excited when sitting down to hash out some new CFML code? You know. one of the best parts about using ColdFusion (or Lucee for that matter) is the ease of use. CFML is a language that is capable of many things, but it’s simple to use. Ever stop […]
Best wishes for the new Fusebox
The ColdFusion framework Fusebox has moved from TeraTech to a new team of community developers. In addition to an updated website the source code for Fusebox 5.6 is now under Github to allow easier distributed improvements to the code. We wish all the best for the new Fusebox and team. TeraTech continues to use Fusebox […]
Fusebox still the most used framework
Fusebox is the most used framework, used by 35% of ColdFusion developers according to the partial results of the State of the CF Union survey. The next most used are Model Glue, ColdBox and Mach-II each at about 15%. Note that the percentages don’t add up to 100% because 1) people may use more than […]
New leader for Fusebox core development
Today Sean Corfield passed the torch of Fusebox core development to Adam Haskell (see Fusebox site for more details on Adam’s vision for Fusebox core development). I appreciate Sean for the Olympic improvements he has made to Fusebox over the years – getting the source into a public Trac repository (with Sim’s help), rewriting the […]
Call for Fusebox sample apps
Did you have the experience of learning Fusebox some time ago and wishing that there were better sample applications to learn from? Several members of Team Fusebox are working on putting some more samples on the website. You can help! Do you have a sample Fusebox app that you could contribute to the fusebox website […]
Cameron Childress to lead Fusebox documentation project
Many of you know Cameron Childress from his leadership of the Atlanta and San Diego ColdFusion User Groups. He is continuing his tradition of giving back to the ColdFusion community by leading the Fusebox documentation project. While the Fusebox code has been very strong over the past few years the documentation has taken a back […]
Fusedoc 3.0 working group started
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 […]
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
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 […]
