Does exactly what it says on the tin
Saturday, February 6th, 2010“Does exactly what it says on the tin.”
I love it. All of our method and function names should do exactly the same.
Read on for more context and why Andy Bellenie is a genius.
Posts About ColdFusion on Wheels
Up and rolling with Git on Snow Leopard
Saturday, November 28th, 2009This morning, I set up a GitHub account so that I could have some public repositories for my ColdFusion on Wheels plugins. Feel free to follow me and watch my repositories as I post them up. (Gotta learn how to do that first though!)
Read on for a summary of how I installed my local copy of Git on Snow Leopard.
Using extra CFC attributes for documentation
Thursday, November 12th, 2009For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML’s GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.
Read on for an example of what we did.
Script-based controllers and models, tag-based views
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009I’m looking forward to playing around with ColdFusion 9 when I get some more time here in a month or so. One of the areas that interests me in particular is the ability to write full CFCs in CFScript syntax.
Read on for what I feel is the perfect blend of CFML features used in the different layers of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework:
- Controllers in script syntax
- Models in script syntax
- Views in tag syntax
Wheels is only a hammer
Thursday, October 8th, 2009My posting this is a seriously delayed reaction. But I must admit that I was using Wheels as a hammer and trying to treat a problem like a nail when I wrote about creating a Wheels partial for setting form focus.
Read on to see where I went wrong.
Aggregating RSS feeds with Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, and CFML
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Over the weekend, I created a couple simple feed aggregators on the ColdFusion on Wheels Community page. I saved major time by using a mashup of Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, and the <cffeed> tag in CFML. This was far easier than creating my own feed aggregator by hand.
If you’ve been curious about any of these tools, I highly recommend reading this post.
ColdFusion on Rails is almost here
Thursday, September 17th, 2009We released ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9.4 on Tuesday. This project has been a dream come true. Although we’re still in beta, there is quite a bit of momentum, and I imagine that people will take a closer look at it after we go 1.0.
Read on for more of my thoughts of where we’ve gone—and where we’re going.
Wheels + jQuery partial for setting form focus
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009You’ve seen it before: you get to a login screen, and the cursor automatically jumps to the username box so you can just start typing. It’s very convenient.
But developers seem to screw this up regularly. I’ve seen it implemented so poorly that it becomes highly unusable and opens potential security problems.
I’ll take some time to show you how I implemented this in jQuery and then encapsulated it for reuse within a partial in ColdFusion on Wheels.
Improving the tutorial: using the same view for multiple actions in ColdFusion on Wheels
Thursday, August 20th, 2009I’ll fulfill my promise by giving another example of how I would improve the Hello Database tutorial for ColdFusion on Wheels.
This time, I’ll talk about how we could factor out view logic so that the profile form can be used for both the add and edit actions. With all of this MVC goodness, we should be able to do some refactoring easily, shouldn’t we?
Improving the tutorial: Object- and query-driven partials in ColdFusion on Wheels
Friday, August 14th, 2009I mention in the ColdFusion on Wheels Hello Database tutorial that there are some things that could be factored out to make the code leaner. One thing that I would do is use a query-driven partial to factor out a loop that displays all users in the database.
Read on for code examples and an explanation.
