Frameworks
Reactor Presentation Next Tuesday
If you’re in the Orlando next tuesday, Feburary 5th, and want to listen to a talk about Reactor, check out Adogo’s February meeting. Joe Zack and I will both be giving a presentation on a ColdFusion ORM, with him doing the also-popular Transfer. I’ll be interested in seeing how the two compare and the discussion [...]
Making the CSS Switch with Grids, Part 2
A month ago I was talking about designing with grids and specifically with 960 pixel wide grids due to the amount of divisors it has. Over the weekend a new CSS framework called Blueprint was release which emphasizes just those two aspects. Blueprint includes a small set of css files but packs quite a punch, [...]
Validation, Business and Functional
The recent discussion of Form Validation - How do you do it?, had me wondering just what might be involved in creating an easy to use validation framework. It’s a task that might seem easy, but when you get down to all the special cases it’s anything but. ColdFusion is a language designed around rapid [...]
New Prototype.js Books Available
Recently, I stumbled across a very unexpected book at a trek to Barnes and Noble: Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Being a long time Prototype user and reader of Justin Palmer I was surprised there wasn’t more press on this one. Not to be outdone though, the Pragmatic Programmers series announced the new book Prototype [...]
Coldbox 2.0 Final Released
If you’re interested in checking out ColdBox, Luis released version 2.0 earlier today. For a framework that doesn’t get too much press it’s amazingly mature, with more documentation than any other I’ve come across (aside from those techspedition Fusebox books that have outdated practices). The sample applications that come with the framework offer even more [...]
Python on Planes, A New Hope for Web Development?
As much as I love ColdFusion, Python On Planes looks like a great new solution. It brands itself as:
Python on Planes is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for python happiness and snakeable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring snake oil [...]
ColdCourse: Search Engine Safe URLs for Fusebox, Mach-II, Model-Glue and ColdBox
One thing that’s always been left out of Coldfusion frameworks (with the exception of Coldfusion On Wheels) is URL handling. This is a big thing. It’s not essential for making an application, and it certainly can be a time drain to get URLs just right. Ruby on Rails started a trend in controlling URLs not [...]
Coldbox, another great solution?
I don’t know why but I never really gave Coldbox a chance when it came out. That was still around the time before I started blogging or just investigating for fun, so I never read up on it the way of some other recent frameworks. Taking a look at it now on Luiz Majano’s blog [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
