Building Fusebox Frameworks

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Building Fusebox Frameworks

• Jeff Peters
• jeff.peters_at_bigfoot.com

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What is Fusebox?

• An Emerging Standard
• A Way to Think About Web Applications
• A Way to Organize Development
• A Way to Manage Dev Projects

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What is Fusebox?

• An Emerging Standard
• A Way to Think About Web Applications
• A Way to Organize Development
• A Way to Manage Dev Projects

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An Emerging Standard

• Created by Steve Nelson and a gang of hundreds
• Continues to develop and expand
• Is not a religion Hal Helms
• May actually be a cult Michael Smith

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What is Fusebox?

• An Emerging Standard
• A Way to Think About Web Applications
• A Way to Organize Development
• A Way to Manage Dev Projects

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A Way to Think About Web Applications

• Provide a standard way to organize an application
• Control program flow in a very uniform manner
• Group like functionality together

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What is Fusebox?

• An Emerging Standard
• A Way to Think About Web Applications
• A Way to Organize Development
• A Way to Manage Dev Projects

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A Way to Organize Development

• Great for team development
• New team members can learn app quickly
• Revisiting old apps is much easier

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What is Fusebox?

• An Emerging Standard
• A Way to Think About Web Applications
• A Way to Organize Development
• A Way to Manage Dev Projects

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A Way to Manage Dev Projects

• Modularity allows much better development control
• Pre-code prototyping and documentation
• Dev manager can make assignments that make sense

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Main Application

• Many Fusebox apps have a two-tiered approach
• Main app controls interaction of circuit apps
• Think of it as the main power junction

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Circuit Apps

• Have specific areas of responsibility
• Each can contain a variety of fuseactions
• Think of them as the breakers in a power panel

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Fuseactions

• Represent specific actions to be performed
• Each requires one or more fuses
• Think of them as the wires

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Fuses

• Individual CF files
• May be app, dsp, act, qry or roll your own
• Think of them as lights, switches, motors, etc.

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Fusebox Frameworks

• Main application
• Circuit apps
• Fuseactions
• Fuses
• Fusebox File

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Fusebox File

• The control center for an app
• Basically a big CFSWITCH on application.fuseaction
  
• Knows what to call and what to call NEXT (XFAs)

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Fusedoc

• Standard for documenting fuses
• Based somewhat on JavaDoc
• Details fuse responsibilities and attributes

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Sample Fusedoc
lt!--- BEGIN FUSEDOC Properties Name
dsp_showCatalog.cfm Author jeff.peters_at_bigfoot.co
m Responsibilities I display the current
catalog contents and allow the user to get
details about specific items.
Attributes --gt XFA.showItemDetails STRING (a
fuseaction) lt-- ItemID INTEGER NOT NULL (item's
catalog ID number) END FUSEDOC ---gt
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Mind Mapping

• Free-form outlining
• Framework visualization
• VisualMind, MindMapper Plus, etc.

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Sample Mind Map
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Fuseminder

• Reads text outline file
• Builds Fusebox framework

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Fuseminder Syntax

• ltcf_fuseminder outlinemyFile.txtgt
• Optional attributes
• Location ( string location of main application
  fusebox)
• Verbose ( yes no )
• Indenter ( string outlines indent string.
  Default is two spaces )

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Sample Outline

• BookEmjpeters_at_ots-inc.com
• Catalog
• showCatalog
• dsp_showCatalog.cfm
• lt!---
• BEGIN FUSEDOC
• Properties
• Name dsp_showCatalog.cfm
• Author jeff.peters_at_bigfoot.com
• Responsibilities
• I display the current catalog contents
  and allow the user to get details
• about
• specific items.
• Attributes
• --gt XFA.showItemDetails STRING (a
  fuseaction)

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Generated Framework
myDir
Main Fusebox (index.cfm)
myDir\Cart
Circuit Fusebox (index.cfm) Fuse files w/Fusedocs
myDir\Catalog
Circuit Fusebox (index.cfm) Fuse files w/Fusedocs
myDir\Checkout
Circuit Fusebox (index.cfm) Fuse files w/Fusedocs
myDir\Users
Circuit Fusebox (index.cfm) Fuse files w/Fusedocs
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Fuseminder Demo
Bam!
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Scintillating QA