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workshop recording: COOP

cfFrameworks Team — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:23:00 -0000

A big thanks to John Farrar who gave a great preso about the COOP framework If you didn't manage to see it (I was late posting about it) the you can watch the recording here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p23481829/ If you would like to talk about a framework then please get in touch.

Coldfusion on wheels

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:56:00 -0000

As Mr Forta has pointed out over on his blog the CFWheels chaps have released an update to their framework. This framework has been quite for a while so im looking forward to checking it out again.

ColdFusion on Wheels provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. One of our biggest goals is for you to be able to get up and running with Wheels quickly. We want for you to be able to learn it as rapidly as it is to write applications with it.

Chris has blogged here whats new

Workshop: Writing Apps with COOP by John Farrar (take 2)

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:49:00 -0000

Following on from out previous canceled presentation please see the new details for the new presentaion here: --- John Farrar has kindly offered to do a workshop showing how one can build a web app using COOP (co-op).

COOP (or CO-OP long hand) is a re-factored work from our companies internal technologies at SOSensible. We hope others get some of the same delight and excitement we do. This technology lets you pull as much programming off your markup page as you wish. It can be so extreme that a designer can code your markup page and he/she may never have to do another loop or conditional statement to work with ColdFusion pages. This is done by a mix of Custom Tag concepts and a paired CFC called a CO-Processor that runs side by side with the markup page. (CO-Processor stands for "Control Object Processor) In fact this may be the most simple form of MVC for CF developers.

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FarCry 5 recording

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:53:00 -0000

Here is the link to the farcry 5 recording. A big thanks to Geoff for taking the time out to do this presentation. Sadly there was an issues with the MAC and Connect but hopefully you can take something from the preso. [More]

Help out Coldbox with 5 mins of your time

cfFrameworks Team — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:20:00 -0000

Luis has posted a quick blog post saying:

I just posted a survey so I can get the community more involved in the development of ColdBox. Please Click here to take survey Even if you haven't used ColdBox, fill it out. I really appreciate your input as I always want ColdBox to be a Community Driven project. Your input is super valuable.

If you have 5 mins please help out - as Luis point out it's out chance (the community) to get involved.

Come and check out FarCry 5 - yes FIVE

cfFrameworks Team — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:01:00 -0000

Geoffrey Bowers has kindly offered to do a workshop showing off the latest version of FarCry. If you've not seen FarCry then check out some of the previous presentations

FarCry CMS is a cutting edge ColdFusion MX application framework for web based content management that blends the very best of open source development with commercial backing and support.

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What happened with the COOP presentation?

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:27:00 -0000

Sadly due to some technical difficulties the COOP workshop scheduled for today did not come off. Please watch this space for a rescheduled date and time. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Workshop: Writing Apps with COOP by John Farrar

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:46:00 -0000

John Farrar has kindly offered to do a workshop showing how one can build a web app using COOP (co-op).

COOP (or CO-OP long hand) is a re-factored work from our companies internal technologies at SOSensible. We hope others get some of the same delight and excitement we do. This technology lets you pull as much programming off your markup page as you wish. It can be so extreme that a designer can code your markup page and he/she may never have to do another loop or conditional statement to work with ColdFusion pages. This is done by a mix of Custom Tag concepts and a paired CFC called a CO-Processor that runs side by side with the markup page. (CO-Processor stands for "Control Object Processor) In fact this may be the most simple form of MVC for CF developers.

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cfFrameworks: Advance Transfer workshop recording

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:05:00 -0000

Wow, what a great workshop Mark Mandel just gave on advanced transfer ORM techniques. Check it out here: [More]

Want to learn advanced Transfer ORM techniques

cfFrameworks Team — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:32:00 -0000

A quick reminder that the workshop is tomorrow - Wed 28th 2007 @ 12 noon GMT Click here for more information

Pimp my ColdBox - now with Flex/AIR Integration

cfFrameworks Team — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:19:00 -0000

Luis Majano has pushed the limits again of his Coldbox framework. This time Luis has been working on:

embedding a remote proxy into ColdBox in order to enable remote applications like Flex and AIR to communicate with ColdBox and provide an event model for our model... This feature lets you create an event driven model that can easily be called from any flex/air application. Not only that, but you can reinitialize the entire application, get settings, and yes, announce custom or core interceptions. You can create custom interceptor chains for your model that can be executed asynchronously when a user hits a save record button for example. The possibilities are endless.

Find out more here

workshop: Advanced Transfer ORM Techniques

cfFrameworks Team — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:15:00 -0000

Mark Mandel has kindly offered to follow up on his last workshop next month on the 28th Nov, covering some advanced Transfer techniques.

Transfer's main focus is to generate and manage the CFCs that represent the data in your application, and it provides a slew of capabilities that work with this aspect and provide you with some very powerful functionality. This talk will cover some of Transfer's 'extra' functionality above and beyond the basic Object Relational Mapping aspects, including:
Caching:
Transfer has a caching layer that is intergrated with it that can provide significant performance gains. How and why to configure it's different options, and how to use the various cache related methods will be covered.
Observable Events:
Transfer provides a variety of Events that it fires when certain operations are performed. By utilising these events, other CFCs in a system can be notified of changes, TransferObjects can be manipulated, and so much more.
Decorators:
If extending the functionality of generic TransferObjects is needed, Decorators are the answer, but there are all sorts of interesting ways to use them.
Transfer Query Language:
An easier way to write an application's Gateway SQL by leveraging the already built object configuration. Doing a SQL statement that joins three tables with one statement and six keywords? Yes Please! Extending the previous presentation's Calendar application will also be used to demonstrate some of these capabilities.

When: Wednesday, 28th Nov, 2007 @ 12:00 UK Time View this time in your timezone [More]

cfDrinks in London with Peter Bell 18th Oct @ 7pm

cfFrameworks Team — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:17:00 -0000

Peter Bell will be leading the talk at cfDrinks in the Abacus Bar, London 18th Oct @ 7pm. cfFrameworks will be holding a raffle and the winner gets CF8 !! Please book your place here. The alternative to MAX update
One thing i've justed notice is that the venue have a dress code!!!
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Dress to Impress! No trainers, sportswear or ripped jeans.
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Sorry all.

Workshop recording: Mark Mandel on Transfer

cfFrameworks Team — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:11:00 -0000

Mark Mandel gave a great presentation on Transfer this afternoon. Mark covers:

What ORM is
Why use an ORM
What is Transfer
Why use Transfer
How to use Transfer

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Workshop: Mark Mandel - Developing Applications with Transfer ORM

cfFrameworks Team — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:13:00 -0000

Mark Mandel will be giving a workshop on one of the most popular ORM frameworks Transfer. A short brief of the workshop:

When developing an Object Oriented web based application, it is normal to have a database with relational tables and a series of objects that represent that data. Often, the amount of time and effort it takes to manually map these objects back and forth from a database is large, and can be very costly. Object Relational Mappers (ORM) were developed to cut down the amount of time this process takes, and automate the translation between a relational database and an Object Oriented system. Transfer ORM's main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application. Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database. This presentation will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, and the use case for using one within web application development. From there the presentation will look at Transfer, its main capabilities and how some examples of how it is utilized. A small Calendar application will be used to demonstrate developing an application with Transfer.

When: Thursday, 30th Aug, 2007 @ 13:00 UK Time View this time in your timezone [More]