Performing Server Side Validations Using Objects
I'm going to continue my series about object oriented validations with ColdFusion by looking at the approach that I've taken to performing server side validations. I discussed the architecture for...
View ArticleI Don't Care What An ORM Is!
There have been some postings recently about the state of the ORM landscape in ColdFusion, and while I have found this conversation interesting, I have not found it particularly useful. There exists a...
View ArticlePaul Marcotte on Transient Factories
Just a note to say that Paul Marcotte has written an interesting blog post describing a ColdFusion component which is an implementation of a Factory Pattern. This component can be used to centralize...
View ArticleThe First Post to ValidateThis!
I'm excited to say that the Google group that I set up as a discussion forum for my object oriented validation framework for ColdFusion has received its first post. And it was a doozy. Some really...
View ArticleHow I Use Transfer Today - Encapsulating Database Access
I've been meaning to follow up on my How I Use Transfer series, as I've made a few changes to the way I write my ColdFusion code since that series was written. One of the biggest changes was to...
View ArticleHow I Use Transfer Today - A Gateway MapFactoryBean
I left something critical out of my last post about how I'm using Transfer (an ORM for ColdFusion) these days. If you've been following along you'll know that I'm using an Abstract Transfer Decorator,...
View ArticleSingle-Table Inheritance with Transfer
I want to talk about object inheritance, which may sound a bit enigmatic, so I'm going to start with an example: Let's say I have a number of types of Employees that I'm trying to model. I have...
View ArticlePresenting at cf.Objective() in May
When I started blogging seriously, around 9 months ago, I had my reasons. I wanted to give something back to the ColdFusion community, from which I had received so much. I wanted to learn about new...
View ArticleBuilding An Object Oriented Model - Presentation Materials Available
Update: A recording of this presentation, as delivered to the Online ColdFusion Meetup is available via this blog post>. The slides and sample code from my cf.Objective() presentation, Building An...
View ArticlePresenting Building An Object Oriented Model to the Online ColdFusion Meetup
Update: A recording of this presentation, as delivered to the Online ColdFusion Meetup is available via this blog post>. Just a quick note to announce that I'm going to be presenting my session...
View ArticleBuilding An Object Oriented Model - Recording and Sample Code Available
I'm happy to announce that the presentation that I delivered to the Online ColdFusion Meetup last Thursday night, entitled Building an Object Oriented Model, was recorded and is therefore available to...
View ArticleValidateThis! 0.75 - Now Supports Internationalization (i18n)
A developer named Mischa Sameli asked a question about supporting internationalization (i18n) in ValidateThis!, my validation framework for ColdFusion objects, on the ValidateThis Google Group a few...
View ArticlePresenting An Object Oriented Approach to Validations to the Online...
Just a quick note to announce that I'm going to be presenting my session from cf.Objective() to the Online ColdFusion Meetup this Thursday, June 18th, at 6:00pm EDT. Details can be found at the Meetup...
View ArticleAn Object Oriented Approach to Validations - Recording Available
I'm happy to announce that the presentation that I delivered to the Online ColdFusion Meetup last night, entitled An Object Oriented Approach to Validations, was recorded and is therefore available to...
View ArticleCF9 ORM Quick Tip - Removing All Items from A Collection
For this example of using ColdFusion 9's ORM features, let's assume we have a User object and a Department object. The Department has a collection of Users, like so: component persistent="true"...
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