CFML Frameworks blog - Interview Podcast

Barney Boisvert talks on coldfusion frameworks

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:46:00 --0100

In this episode of the cfFrameworks podcast we have an interview with Barney Boisvert. He covers comparing coldfusion frameworks with Java frameworks as well as covering fusebox and coldspring. He has one of the best 'Soap Box' answers to date.

Remember if you have anything you would like to say then please let us know as we would love to interview you.

Barney Boisvert has been developing ColdFusion and Java applications since last millennium. He is an active member in the ColdFusion community including the Portland CFUG/RIA group and speaking at various conferences. Involved with Fusebox since starting with CF, he was a contributing developer for Fusebox 4.1, and is a member of Team Fusebox. He is currently a Senior Web Application Developer at Mentor Graphics in Wilsonville, Oregon.

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Ray Camden talks about coldfusion frameworks

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:51:00 --0100

In this episode of the cfFrameworks podcast we have an interview with the cfJedi himself Ray Camden. This is the shortest interview to date at just over 17 mins

I think it was my mission in this interview to keep asking Ray the same questions, sorry Ray. That said, Ray covers Model-Glue, Spectra and he talks about his baby steps into Fusebox.
It would be great to get some feed back about these interviews, good or bad, so please leave some comments below.

Raymond Camden is a long-time ColdFusion user. He has written many books on the subject and presents on ColdFusion topics often. His blog software, BlogCFC, is in use by numerous writers across the world and is completely free and open source. Raymond also shares many other applications covering forums, wikis, and other needs. He is one of the managers of the Acadiana MMUG and runs a "virtual" ColdFusion Jedi User Group over Breeze.

For his day job, Raymond is an independent contractor.

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Luis Majano on the coldbox framework

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:23:00 --0100

Welcome to another podcast from cfFrameworks.com. In this podcast we chat with Luis Majano on his Coldbox framework. Luis was kind enough to write out his answers as well. Click here to view them

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. Please Support GIS!!. He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications. He has over 7 years experience in software development, networking and system design. He is also a freelance engineer and president of Ortus Solutions, Corp.

Contact Luis
Coldbox mailing list or via the Contact Form on his site.

Coldbox
ColdBox is a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications. The purpose behind ColdBox was to create a fast & stable development methodology that could be shared among several developers. It makes use of an MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern implemented via CFC's. It uses event handler CFC's that hold all the code necessary to prepare views, call model CFC's or a business layer (Soap/ws/xml/J2EE) and render views (HTML).

Please look at the wiki for more up-to-date information and extensive documentation

You can look at the MVC Design Pattern diagram below:
ColdBox MVC Design Pattern

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Isaac Dealey talks about the onTap framework

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:48:00 --0100

IsaacDealey on the onTap framework - http://www.cfframeworks.com/media/podcast/IsaacDealey.mp3

In this episode of the cfframeworks podcast we have an interview with Isaac Dealey of the onTap framework.

This is a great interview with a fun guy, one which I think everyone should listen to, there is so much more in the onTap framework than perhaps people are aware of. Isaac talks about how the onTap framework came about. Its elegant plugin architecture and some of the more novel features it provides.

Isaac inherited an interest in programming from his father who worked on various iterations of DOS, among other things. He started with ColdFusion 3.0 at MCI/WorldCom in the midst of their merger. When they finalized the merger his job vanished but he enjoyed working with ColdFusion so much that he couldn't put it down. Since then he's worked with ASP, tinkered with Perl and XML, and appropriated some DHTML DOM and Macromedia Flash MX skills, although ColdFusion remains his first love. Isaac's strengths lie in application architecture, modular/reusable coding practices, object orientation, and "content management"--whatever that is.

Isaac was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. There's a statue there of his great-great grandfather, George Bannerman Dealey, former editor and one-time owner of the Dallas Morning News, on "the grassy knoll" where President Kennedy was shot. His other interests include philosophy, history, anthropology, polyamory, intentional communities, theology, new age metaphysics, music, art and to some extent politics. He used to be an avid sci-fi fan, collect comic books, and play pencil and paper role-playing games. He's also a big fan of Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, and a lot of one-hit wonders from the '80s.

onTap

A powerful framework for developing ColdFusion applications, featuring many enhancements to the CFML language for database access, display, application branding and asset management. Free for commercial use under a BSD style license.

http://www.fusiontap.com/

Contact Isaac

ontap@fusiontap.com

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Mark Mandel talks about his Transfer ORM Framework

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:36:00 --0100

Welcome to another Podcast from cfFrameworks.com. This is the fourth podcast that we have done and it would be great to hear what people thing, the good and the bad. Please comment below and let us know.

Mark Mandel gives us an insight into his Object Relationship Model Transfer framework, covering where it sits within the application layer and some of the functions such as decorators.

Mark Mandel is a Senior Developer at NGA.net and has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90’s.

More recently he has become very active within the ColdFusion open source community, authoring several projects, including Transfer ORM and JavaLoader.

Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion for the past few years, as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet IRC network.

When he’s not too busy coding he enjoys spending his extra time getting beaten up, training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.

Contact Mark
Transfer mailing list or via the Contact Form on his site.

Transfer
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.

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Sean Corfield on Fusebox and Frameworks

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:48:00 --0100

Sean Corfield talks about the fusebox framework, lexicons and some of the dark secrets of frameworks. He also covers some Object Oriented principles such as Duck Typing and Coupling

Sean has worked in IT for over twenty years. He started out writing database systems (in assembler) and compilers (in various languages, including COBOL!) before moving in mobile telecoms and finally to the web about six years ago. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years but then turned to Java (in '97) and gave up C++, although he still maintains one of the textbook reference websites: C++ - Beyond the ARM.

Sean is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice, having written C++ coding guidelines for several companies during the 90's and more recently maintaining the Adobe ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines which are also published for the ColdFusion community. He has also given several seminar talks, both in-house and publicly, on these subjects.

Contact Sean
Fusebox mailing list or comment at http://corfield.org/blog/

Fusebox
Fusebox is the most popular framework for building ColdFusion. "Fuseboxers" find that the framework releases them from much of the drudgery of writing applications and enables them to focus their efforts on creating great, customer-focused software.

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cfFrameworks Interview: Peter Bell on Lightwire and frameworks

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:45:00 --0100

Peter Bell gives us his thoughts on coldfusion frameworks and well as some of his reason why he built his Lightwire. He also covers some principles of OO prgramming and AOP programming.

Peter Bell is CEO/CTO of SystemsForge (http://www.systemsforge.com) and helps Web designers to increase their profits and build a residual income by generating custom web applications - in minutes, not months. An experienced entrepreneur and software architect with fifteen years of business experience, he lectures and blogs extensively on application generation and ColdFusion design patterns.

Contact Peter
Lightwire mailing list or comment at pbell.com on any posting

Lightwire

A very lightweight Direct Injection/IoC engine for directly injecting dependencies into singletons AND transient business object.
LightWire is optimized to create transient objects as well as singletons and allows for programmatic instead of XML configuration.
It is the lightweight DI framework for people who'd like to put more logic in their beans and less in their service layer.
Supports proper constructor, setter and mixin injection options.

Download
lightwire.riaforge.org

Some interview quotes

"a framework is a set of code and conventions that embody a set of options about how to solve a class of problems. if you don't have the code its a methodology, if you don't have the conventions its a library and if it doesn't have an option it's a waste of time."

"Dependency injection is about 2 things - configuration and communication"

"programmers are more expensive than computers"

"three letters, XML"

"configuration script and configuration data"

"write your own framework - it can never do you any harm.... if you've got a few hundred hours spare"

cfframeworks Interview with Brian Rinaldi

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:36:00 --0100

Happy New Year from cfframeworks.com! It has been a bit quiet over the past few weeks on cfframeworks, but we're back and we kick off this year with a series of interviews with figures from the ColdFusion community who are are involved in and are known for their work within ColdFusion frameworks. This week we have an interview with Brian Rinaldi. Brian is the manager of the Boston CFUG and is also an Adobe Community Expert. Brian can usually be found blogging on Remote Synthesis (http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/) where he also maintains a list of ColdFusion open source projects including many of the popular ColdFusion frameworks. Brian has used a number of ColdFusion frameworks including: ColdSpring, Transfer ORM, Reactor,Model Glue and Mach-II In this interview Brian talks about Mach-II,ColdSpring and Transfer and also the difficulty of transitioning from procedural to Object Orientated programming. He discusses how he started off developing an OO application how he gradually began to see problems that frameworks such as ColdSpring and Transfer solved. This was our first (raw and unscripted) interview and there is a bit of a noticeable delay as it is conducted transatlantic. I'm sure we'll get better with practice. This interview runs to just over 35 minutes. Finally if you're involved in the support, maintenance or development of any of the existing or even a new ColdFusion frameworks - we would love to interview you too. Drop us a line. Interview with Brian Rinaldi The cfframeworks team.