Oh how I love thee… now I know Christmas is coming.

As some of you may or may not know I am a huge fan of the Fusebox framework. I have been using some sort of offshoot of it for about 6 years now. It really came around with v4.1 but 5.5 is going to blow everything out of the water! It is currently in public beta.

http://www.fusebox.org/go/fusebox-downloads/beta-program

According to the documentation some of the primary themes are:

1. Simplify. Remove barriers. Make it easier for newbies. Make building applications faster by favoring convention over configuration.
2. Extend through extensibility. Provide new functionality outside the core. Add plugins, lexicons, even standardized circuits.

Go ahead and and give it a go round.

On a personal note my wife and I welcome into the world our new son Evan Jeremiah David Merrick…

He was born 10/14/2007 at 5:12 am. He weighed 8lbs 7 Oz or (3.82 kilograms for my UK friends) and was 21 inches long.

We are super excited for a boy as our our 2 Daughters Hannah and River. I will post pictures when I get the camera back from the hospital.

J.J.

Derek Sivers, the guy behind CDBaby.com has a great blog post about his move to RoR then back to PHP.

Blog Post Here

Here is the comment that I posted, I just wanted to share it with you guys:

I think that most people, from these comments, missed the point of this article. This was not a technical article.

Sometimes we as programmers forget what our clients want… applications that just work. They don’t care how they just want it to do what they want it to do and do it well. If that means you can code in BASIC the best as anyone on the planet then use it! If for some reason you have 2 brains and Java is your cup of joe then DO IT. I personally use the most widely hated language, ColdFusion, and I have been using it for about 10 years now. I am really good at it and I can get things done amazingly fast. I do some fairly large platforms with it and it works very well. Adobe is still developing it, I still get paid gobs of money to program in it and I will keep using it as long as I can. Yes I still play around with RoR, PHP and .Net but if someone comes to me and says I need an app and I need it in 1 month I am going to use CF because that is what I know and it is what I work fast in. May not be the coolest on the block but for me it is what works.

Don’t just use a language because it is cool, use it because it works.