Archive for February, 2007
Getting Started with Ant
If you’re looking for a good place to get started with Ant when it comes to deployment, check out Derek Perez’s recent post about Improving ColdFusion Deployment with Ant. He created a time saving script to do three main things: uncompiled deployment to my webroot, compiled deployment to my webroot and packaged deployment.
Choosing a Framework
Everyone seems to be putting in their $0.02 when it comes to choosing a framework, so I thought I’d toss my change as well. It seemed to start with a post by Brian Rinaldi about how Overthinking Your Framework is a Stalling Tactic. He makes some very good points on this, and the often suggested [...]
Book 4: Coldfusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide
Book 4: Coldfusion MX7 Certified Developer Study Guide
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Ben Forta’s guide to getting Coldfusion certified
If you’re looking to get Coldfusion Certified there’s not too many products out there to help you. I wrote about the few I used of which this small but in depth book played an important role.
If you’re wondering just what a [...]
Persisting Complex Objects
When it comes to programming pages, it’s almost always harder to create a page that accepts input (a form page), than a page that outputs (general dsp page). When displaying information from a database for instance, you may need to go the database and get everything you need while in the controller, then in the [...]
One more Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer
For my last weekday off before heading back to a new job this coming Monday, I decided it was a good time to study up and get Coldfusion Certified. I decided to do so about two weeks ago, just before the frameworks conference, and have been studying little by little since then. The end result? [...]
Coldfusion On Wheels, the forgotten framework
One framework that was unfortunately not represented at the Frameworks Conference was Coldfusion on Wheels. Although it was heavily developed at first, it’s started to split off with some question of the direction it’s going in. The idea is that it will be a port of Ruby on Rails for Coldfusion. There are a lot [...]
A new Coldfusion Engine
Browsing Digg earlier I noticed something a little odd on the font page, a post about Coldfusion! Aparently it’s a link to a new Coldfusion Engine available over at the Smith Project. I haven’t had a chance to try it out as of yet, but it looked like the bulk of expected tags are included. [...]
CFCs Are the Framework code, Fusebox 5.1 Posted, Presentation Samples
Steve Nelson went ahead and posted over at his labs site as well as the presentation slides, the mysql for it and even a walk through of the code which is an amazing help to tracing how the code works in surprising depth. This is one of the talks I was sad to missed (although [...]
Frameworks Conference Blogs
There were a few other people that were blogging furiously during the recent frameworks conference if you’re interested in reading more.
Kevin Roche wrote articles about just about just about each talk he went to as well. There were a few I was sad to miss he wrote up on such as Leveraging Coldspring [...]
Smart Frameworks: Utalizing Rich Metadata and Code Generation, by Elliott Sprehn
Notes from Elliott Sprehns talk on Smart Frameworks at Frameworks 2007. After 6 posts today I was starting to get a little spacey by the time this one came around. It was a great presentation though, and offered a lot of comparisons of coldfusion frameworks to Rails and what we can learn from them to [...]
