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

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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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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

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Sean Corfield gave a great presentation on fusebox last night. Sadly I had a rather ill stomach so I had to hand over to Dan Lancelot to run the meeting. Sean covers the history of fusebox as well as some of the latest features in the alpha version of fusebox5.5.

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Sean Corfield will be giving a workshop on one of the most popular frameworks Fusebox. Sean will be sending over more details on what's going to be covered soon.

When: Thursday, 2nd Aug, 2007 @ 19:00 UK Time View this time in your timezone

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Luis Majano just gave a great workshop on the Coldbox framework. Although we had some technical issues with Luis using a Intel Mac he managed to find a PC and continue his presentation. I'd like to thank Luis for his time and his efforts with a great framework. Click the link below to see the recording:

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Following on our workshops Luis Majano will be giving a workshop on his Coldbox. Luis will be sending over more details on what's going to be covered soon.

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For those that couldn't make it, Brain Rinaldis presentation went really well. This is his first presentation on the generator. He covers how you can use the generator and how you can customise the code that it outputs. There are some good questions asked at the end as well. Transcript below.

To view the recording please click the link below

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Due to bad weather we're having in the UK, my train didn't get me back in time - I'm very sorry to all those that where looking forward to it. Luckly Brian will be happy to do it again Thursday 5th July. Here are the details again:

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Following on our workshops Brian Rinaldi will be giving a workshop on his Illudium PU-36 Code Generator. Brian will cover creating Mach-II and Transfer code.

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Here is the link to the recording form Mark Drews framework explorer workshop. Sadly Marks wireless Mac had a few issues so we only have the start of the interview as the remainder is incomprehensible.

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Following on our workshops Brian Rinaldi will be giving a workshop on his Illudium PU-36 Code Generator. Brian will cover creating Mach-II and Transfer code.

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