Harmony started life out as a mini CMS project in early 2001 just because I’d never written one and i thought it was about time i did. In 2002 I presented at the Fusebox Conference with a session on ‘Content management with Fusebox’ and in those days i was calling it ‘myCMS’. Harmony was the code name of another project I’m very close to, Microsoft’s Media Centre 2004 - which is now in production (or at least OEMs can sell it) so i thought i’d leech the name 
Harmony came about because the company i work for refused to spend $30,000 on a Commonspot license to CMS our public facing web site, preferring to let our webmaster (not me) manually edit over 1500 static HTML files with our new corporate web image whenever it changed (6 monthly). It was intended more as a proof of concept but over the years i’ve constantly been playing with the code and it’s now turning out to be a pretty neat ‘demo app’ (yet to be used in production I hasten to add).
Originally starting as a FuseQ application, I’ve recently updated the core engine to use Fusebox4, I’ll be convering a number of the core changes i needed to make to move from FuseQ to Fusebox 4 but it was a relatively painless experience.
January 16th, 2004 at 5:04 pm
January 19th, 2004 at 4:52 pm
hmmm, looks like i’ve had a problem recording comments to my blog entries. Think I’ve sorted it now
February 27th, 2004 at 3:03 pm
Would like to take a look at Harmony if at all possible. I’ve been looking at CMS solutions and trying to figure out how to pair with FB4. Your solution would take care of my needs.
February 27th, 2004 at 3:42 pm
Ah hah. I see what you mean about the comments. I think what I was inquiring about was are you going to make this available to the community, sell it, etc? We really need something here, and something that’s fusebox’d would (of course) be my preference. Thanks, John
February 27th, 2004 at 3:56 pm
Hi guys. thanks for the interest. Let me start by saying Harmony started off as one of those projects you do when current work load is low. It started life as a Fusebox3 app, then a FuseQ app and now my first Fusebox4 app (i know, its been out for ages i just never had time). Since then i’ve MVC’ed my entire site in FB4 and got a better understanding of the tricks i can use so Harmony is ready to undergo yet more work. (FYI, www2.flyinfish.co.uk is my ‘Created in Harmony’ site that i use for testing, CFMX6.1 Linux, MySQL)
I’ll certainly answer any questions, post chunks of code i think is neat and other stuff in the time being….
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