When I first encountered the fusebox [1] framework for ColdFusion - that was a bit of an eye-opener for me. I still thunk MVC and derivatives for proper object oriented environments like Smalltalk is superior as a general design pattern, but fusebox is a great match for web development with "template oriented" languages like php and cf. It builds sanely on these languages' strenghts and can be rather plesant to work with.
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When I first encountered the fusebox [1] framework for ColdFusion - that was a bit of an eye-opener for me. I still thunk MVC and derivatives for proper object oriented environments like Smalltalk is superior as a general design pattern, but fusebox is a great match for web development with "template oriented" languages like php and cf. It builds sanely on these languages' strenghts and can be rather plesant to work with.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusebox_(programming)