Time to wrap my reports up from the Fusebox conference with a report from the Sunday.
Despite the 8:30am start Sean Corfield got an excellent turn out at his ‘Blackstone and what is means for Fusebox’ session. It’s really great to see people like Sean coming round to the idea of Fusebox, I remember reading some of his quite critical posts back in 3.0 days but now with 4.0 and 4.1 he’s very enthusiastic about it. As expected Sean did a fine job in a relatively short period of time demonstrating some cool features in Blackstone, the event gateways using a cell phone to update a blog, cfdocument producing PDF/Flashpaper versions of a website and other Blackstone stuff.
Matt Liotta then chaired a Mach-II birds of a feather with Ben Edwards, Hal and Sean. I was a little disappointed as I was expecting it to be a Mach-II primer as it’s not something l’ve had time to look into yet so didn’t pick up much from this session…except that people were talking about listeners and annoucing events, blah blah blah….
The session before lunch, John Paul Ashenfelter gave an inspiring session on ‘Leveraging Java Tools for FB4‘ which has given me plenty of food for thought. He spoke about ANT and how he’s using it for deploying FB4 apps using tasks which (for instance) change the application mode from development to production (he did mention other uses but i’ve forgotten them now 
). He went on to speak about logging and leveraging the Jakarta Commons-Logging (JCL) log4j which is already used by MM in CFMX in the CFTRACE tag. John showed a Fusebox4 plugin which he’s written to use log4j for his application logging.
After lunch Matt Liotta chaired a session on Fusebox Tools where Steve Nelson demoed Fusebox Explorer, Wells Burke demoed Adalon 3.0, Mike Ritchie demoed Fusebuilder and Matt demoed He3’s MachII support. The session after, Steve Nelson spoke about ‘Fusedocs in the Real world’ using the clockmakers Tempus and Hora as analogies of how to write code and also a number of examples of how not to document code. Matt then chaired a final session ‘Selling FB’ before Michael Smith wrapped the 2004 conference up and dished out a heap of raffle prizes to those who had filled in the conference surveys and handed their raffle tickets in.
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