September 18th - September 19th, 2004
Rockville, MD

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Until the Fusebox conference ( September 18th - September 19th), we will be talking with featured speakers at the conference.

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4. Rey Muradaz - How NOT to Fusebox

In this Fusebox Conference interview I talk with Rey Muradaz on "How NOT to Fusebox".

Michael Smith: Rey I hear that you are talking on "How NOT to Fusebox" at the Fusebox Conference. So what *will* you be talking about?

Rey Muradaz: I have to confess to a little misdirection--of course, this really is a presentation on Fusebox. In a nutshell, I'll be discussing the benefits to implementing Fusebox in a team environment, even when the implementation is, shall we say, suboptimal. The presentation is mostly oriented towards team/project leads and managers, but anyone working in a group environment should be able to benefit from it. If nothing else, you'll get some laughs at some of the code samples from my "colleagues".

MS: I understand you gave this presentation at CFUN-04 as well.

RM: That's correct, and I was quite pleased with the turnout, despite going up against the lovely and talented trio of April Fleming, Matt Liotta and Hal the Godfather. However, based on feedback from that session and a subsequent show for a local CFUG in LA, the presentation is New and Improved (can it really be both?) for FBCon, with the aforementioned bad code samples, significantly greater audience participation, and live animals!

MS: It is just for team development or can single programmer shops get benefit from Fusebox?

RM: As someone who does a lot of solo development, I can personally attest to the benefits of Fusebox even for those who are "playing by themselves". For independent developers, Fusebox brings (at least) two great benefits--ease of maintenance (you don't have to relearn your spaghetti code six months later when you go back to see your client), and code reuse (the fuses/fuseactions you build are often modular enough to be recycled from project to project). And of course, for teams, Fusebox makes the interaction of the players significantly easier and more effective, as well as facilitating functional specialization, so you can make the most of the skills of each member, as I discuss in my presentation.

MS: So do you have to be a Fusebox shop to find the presentation useful?

RM: Good question, Michael. The short answer is no. While this will certainly be useful to FBers, the feedback that I've gotten suggests that the presentation is even more beneficial to people who are considering implementing FB but haven't yet taken the plunge. For those of us who have already drunk the Kool-Aid, it's hard to remember a time when Fusebox was anything other than The Obvious Choice (tm), but for a lot of folks looking at Fusebox for the first time, the decision is not nearly as clear. I will be making the "pro" case for using a framework (and particularly Fusebox), but I welcome any audience participation that highlights the "con" arguments as well (this really is a search for Truth, after all .

MS: But you *are* targeting manager-types?

RM: That's the audience that will find this most immediately relevant, but if there's anyone who's a little further down the food chain who's been trying to get the powers-that-be to implement FB and is looking for some good arguments to bolster their case, they'll definitely get some help here as well. I also welcome anyone who has useful or interesting stories to tell about their own successes and challenges with frameworks--as Nate Nelson (thanks Nate!) pointed out to me after CFUN, a high level of audience participation is a Good Thing (tm).

MS: Is there anyone who *shouldn't* come?

RM: IMH(?)O, anyone coming to FBCon will benefit at least a little from my presentation. But seriously, what you won't get from me is hands-on technical information about using CF or FB. There will be no code samples in this presentation (at least none you'd want to replicate). But who comes to conferences for hands-on information anyway?

MS: Yes, that is a very humble opinion there! Sounds like this session will have a lot of learning that you can't get from a book. Thanks for talking with me.

 

Previous Interviews:
Week 1: Hal Helms - Keynote Speech
Week 2: John Quarto-vonTivadar - New Aspects of Fusebox 4.1
Week 3: Michael Smith - Real World FLiP

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