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.
Following on from out previous canceled presentation please see the new details for the new presentaion here:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow, what a great workshop Mark Mandel just gave on advanced transfer ORM techniques.
Check it out here:
A quick reminder that the workshop is tomorrow - Wed 28th 2007 @ 12 noon GMT
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
Mark Mandel gave a great presentation on Transfer this afternoon. Mark covers:
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
