An Architect's View

As the development of Fusebox 5 draws to a close with the public release candidate being announced at CFUNITED this week, I'd like to take a few moments to thank people who helped me make this a reality. First off, a general shout out to the nearly 300-strong team of Fuseboxers who joined the Fusebox 5 mailing list and risked life and limb testing alpha and beta versions of the core files. Because of their tireless work, backward compatibility with Fusebox 4.1 looks to be extremely good - one of my core goals for this completely rewritten release. Second, a shout out to "The Fusebox Corporation" who oversee the framework, who asked me to develop this release and who have approved it for general release: Hal Helms and John Quarto-von-Tivadar. And now some specific names who've helped - possibly in ways they didn't realize! Barney Boisvert for comparative benchmarking and a number of excellent on-list (and off-list) suggestions; Ben Koshy, Christian Ready, Jason Daiger and Phillip Duba for being especially active contributors on the mailing list; Byron Raines, David Sparkman, Erki Esken, Jordan Clark, Qasim Rasheed, Mike Ritchie and Mike Tangorre for logging tickets directly to save me the trouble; David Epler and Ian Buzer for testing on BlueDragon and Railo; John Paul Ashenfelter and Sandy Clark for the DTDs; Mike Ritchie (again) for tireless assistance on Fusebox 4.1 compatibility issues; Nathan Strutz for a variety of contributions, including some custom verbs in the skeleton application; Patrick McElhaney for suggesting the core grammar should be implemented at custom lexicons; Roger Lancefield for being brave enough to run his public blog on a beta release; Stephen Judd for his Fusebox Reloader Firefox plugin; Terry Schmitt for working hard on isolating some thread-safety issues in the core files in development mode. Don't feel left out if you were active on the mailing list but didn't get a specific shout out - I appreciate everyone's efforts here! Thank you everyone - you've helped make Fusebox 5 an exciting release!