Congratulations to Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee for winning the Iowa Caucus last night. I was looking at their respective web sites last night. I am not sure which web framework Obama is using, but Mike Huckabee is using Fusebox.

As a long time Fusebox developer I wish all candidates would use Fusebox. It will not affect my vote, but it is still nice to see.

2007 has been an exiting year for me because of many changes in my life. The ColdFusion 8 launch was very exiting and has been successful for Adobe. I wish I had more time to devote to the JaxFusion user group this year to cover all of the new features.

I also started a new job working as a technical consultant. I did that to get more hands on experience using the BI features in SQL Server 2005. I also have had the opportunity to work with Microsoft Sharepoint and .NET this year. It has been great to learn new things related to these other products.

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe new year.

I uploaded the powerpoint presentation is used for last night's presentation on Fusebox 5 and Model-Glue onto my web site. I will have code examples on my downloads section next week.

I will be doing a presentation tonight for the JaxFusion User Group tonight at Vurv Technology. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM ET.

The presentation will have a comparison of the Fusebox 5 framework and the Model-Glue framework. This presentation will also have a discussion on how these Frameworks compare to some of the other popular web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Struts, and Django.

I have been lite blogging lately. I have been preparing for FISA world rowing championships in Princeton, NJ.

I read today on Sean Corfield's blog that Fuseboxframework.org website is up now as well as a SVN and bugtrak site.

The Mach-II 1.1.1 beta has also been released as well, so I will have to check that out.

I am preparing a presentation on both Fusebox and Model-Glue. The most current version of Model-Glue is called Unity. In this version Joe Rinehart has added ColdSpring and Reactor into the Model-Glue framework.

One of the neat features of fusebox is the notion of lexicons. Lexicons let you add your own tags or verbs to the framework.

I was reading on MXNA that Dope Fly has some downloads that will let you add ColdSpring and Reactor Lexicons to Fusebox. Pretty Cool.

I don't know how I missed this, but Fusebox 5 general release is available at fusebox.org.

Congratulations to Sean Corfield and the rest of the Fusebox group for getting this release out. I have been beta testing the framework for a new application I have been working on for last couple of weeks.

This is the first release of the Fusebox framework that has not required a rewrite of your application to upgrade the framework. All fusebox.xml and circuit.xml files will run as they did in version 4.0 and 4.1.

The core files are now CFCs for the most part. There is also a new fusebox.loadclean keyword that can be used to recompile the app from the xml files.

I have a site that I run that is on a Linux server. I just finished writting an application in fusebox 5, and I noticed the following problems.

Since Fusebox 4, the framework actually compiles code into a "parsed" directory. I tried to reparse my app using the fusebox.cleanbuild=true url parameter, and I got the following error;

I changed the "parse" directory to have permissions set at "777" so that the public group had permission to write. I am pretty sure that Fusebox 4 has the same issue, but I have not been able to verify.