Screencast: Generating Fusebox5 CRUD Files With Illudium-PU36

After releasing my templates, I decided I would throw together a quick screencast on how easy it is to generate CRUD operations using the templates and the Fusebox 5.1 skeleton application.

Be kind, its my first screencast ever. BTW, IShowU for Mac ROCKS! and at $20, it simply cannot be beat!

Watch it on YouTube or you can view the uncompressed original recording using Quicktime here (16MB).


Frustrations with Fusebox After All These Years...

I've been using Fusebox for well over 6 years now. Its the only framework I have have ever used when developing applications for clients or myself. Its served its purpose well and has always seemed to fit my needs. However, lately I have been running into some things that are frustrating me about it. Mostly when it comes to working with other frameworks for CFC's and throwing in an ORM here and there.

I have been working on an application over the last month or two that I wrote in FB5 and ColdSpring. At first it was fine. Mostly due to the custom lexicons written by Nathan Strutz to instantiate ColdSpring and get beans from the factory right in the XML control file. Then after seeing Mark Mandels Breezo on the Transfer ORM, I decided I wanted to give it a whirl and throw it into the mix. Now this is where things started to get interesting (read aggravating).

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