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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.

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

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]

Reschedule: Workshop Brian Rinaldi on Framework Code Generation

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:12:00 --0100

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: ---- 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. [More]

Workshop Brian Rinaldi on Framework Code Generation

Tue, 22 May 2007 16:02:00 --0100

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. [More]

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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