I’ve been a Fuse­box gal from way back in the ver­sion 2ish days, before ver­sion­ing was some­thing that was done with any kind of dis­ci­pline. I still remem­ber the old mail­ing list days very fondly — there was a very close com­mu­nity that grew up in the early days of the frame­work, and with those guys in my inbox I wrote a lot of code and had a lot of fun doing it.

So while Fuse­box is still my weapon of choice — I’m using ver­sion 5 these days — I am amazed at the depth and breadth of choice avail­able in the frame­works world, and I find the com­mu­ni­ties that spring up around them fas­ci­nat­ing. Which is why I started a series of inter­views on Site­Point with frame­work devel­op­ers, to try and get a bet­ter idea of how their approaches and philoso­phies are bourne out in the frame­works them­selves and the peo­ple who rally around them.

So far there’s two that have been pub­lished — one with Geoff Bow­ers on Far­Cry, not tra­di­tion­ally seen as a frame­work, and one with John Far­rar on COOP, a fairly new sys­tem with a unique and inter­est­ing focus. Take a look and don’t for­get to leave a rat­ing so I know what works and what doesn’t, in terms of the arti­cles them­selves. There’s a few more on the way — my beloved Fuse­box, Machi-ii, Cold­Box, Trans­fer ORM (yes Mark, that’s you — answer the bloody ques­tions!) — and if you’re a frame­work devel­oper, no mat­ter how big or small, please drop me an email so I can include you too.

And tonight I’ve put up a poll on the Site­Point Cold­Fu­sion blog, to get some feed­back from read­ers — do you use a frame­work? Pop on over and put your 2c in. It won’t even cost you that!

Frame­works, frame­works every­where: a poll on SitePoint