CF Best Practices?

Hi all,

Where can I find something that describes Coldfusion MX coding best practices?

I don't mean simple stuff like, don't overuse pound signs. I mean when building enterprise level apps and how to code them correctly when using includes, modules and such.

I need something higher than Intermediate level.

Nathan

There are lots of books on CF that might help, including Ben Forta's Advanced CF books.

The Macromedia Internal Coding Standards may help:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/...s/contents.html

There is also a fair amount of stuff at the developer center:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/

Finally, www.fullasagoog.com is a hugely popular CF blog aggregator.

search for FuseBox

The new Fusebox 4.1 is very nice. I helped write a book on it because there isn't a lot of documentation, but we're in the process of trying to get more docs up on the site as well.

http://www.fusebox.org/index.cfm?

I can always rely on you to post something that helps...

When I first started coding CF, I did look at Fusebox and was very intimidated. That was 3 years ago. I think I'm ready to take another look.

What would you say is the learning curve for Fusebox compared to the CF learning curve, since I know the CF curve very well.

Thanks.

Nathan

If you know CF then Fusebox is quite straighforward:

1. User makes a request to your Fusebox app by passing a "fuseaction".
2. Based on the fuseaction, the Fusebox application responds by executing other "internal" fuseactions, including files, performing redirects, or whatever else it has to do in order to fulfill the request.
3. In Fusebox 4.1, you define how the application responds to different Fuseactions using an XML syntax.
4. Fusebox makes it very easy to implement MVC (model-view-controller). All user requests go to the controller. In the controller, calls are made to the model to perform application logic, and calls are made to the view to render data.

The Fusebox site has a growing set of simple sample application downloads for an app called "Wegot Widgets" which starts with a very simple FB4 app, then has variations of it that use content components, CFCs, object-oriented design, MVC, and more.

Hope that helps.

So the learning curve is actually a straight line for someone at my level?

I've never used XML in my CF apps (but I'm advanced beginner level with XML) so that is definetly new to me...but even that makes the curve straight?

EDIT: By the way, what is Blue Dragon support and do I need it?

Nathan

FB should run fine on BlueDragon. The XML is not difficult at all. It looks something like this:

<fuseaction name="myFuseaction" />
<do action="model.getUser" />
<include template="inc_someIncludeFile" />
<do action="view.showUser" />
</fuseaction>

Sample XML grammar for fusebox.xml is at
http://www.fusebox.org/downloads/index.cfm?method=Fusebox4.fuseboxXML

Sample XML grammar for circuit.xml is at
http://www.fusebox.org/downloads/index.cfm?method=Fusebox4.circuitXML

Hi all,

If someone wants some great FB4 tutorials for free or a small donations, there is a blog called "John Bs Personal Blog".

I've been looking for "from the begining" tutorials and hes got 'em.

Nathan