CFML Frameworks blog - Workshop

cfWheels - an intro, the recording

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:14:00 --0100

Again, I would like to thanks Chris for getting up so early today to do a great presentation on 'a into to cfWheels'. If you're a little unsure about if you should see this framework just let me use a statement from the show

"This is awesome'

Here is the recording for a intro to cfWheels.

We will be doing a follow up showin off some of the more advanced features of the framework very soon.

I would also like to thank Andy Belliene for stepping in to finish off the recording as I had to dip ut toward the end.

until next time

cfwheels presentation date updated

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:17:00 --0100

Please note that todays meeting has been moved to Friday - I'm really sorry about this but please do tune in on Friday. See the related link below.

workshop recording: COOP

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:23:00 --0100

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.

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

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:49:00 --0100

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

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:53:00 --0100

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]

Come and check out FarCry 5 - yes FIVE

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:01:00 --0100

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?

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:27:00 --0100

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

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:46:00 --0100

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

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:05:00 --0100

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

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:32:00 --0100

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

workshop: Advanced Transfer ORM Techniques

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:15:00 --0100

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.

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Workshop recording: Mark Mandel on Transfer

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:11:00 --0100

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

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:13:00 --0100

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]

Workshop recording: Sean Corfield on fusebox 5.5

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:39:00 --0100

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. [More]

Workshop: Sean Corfield on Fusebox

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:46:00 --0100

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 [More]