using the right technology at the right time
As I hit the books and learned about Ruby on Rails a couple years ago, there was one thing that I admired about how Ruby handles public and private sections of classes.
How can I take a lesson from Ruby and apply it to my CFML coding? I’m glad that you asked! Read on for more details.
This is fairly simple, but I figured that I would share my approach for 404 error pages in ColdFusion on Wheels and see if anyone has a different/better way of doing it. This example demonstrates code used on cfwheels.org.
Read on to learn more.
“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.
This 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.
For 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.
I’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:
My 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.
Over 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.
We 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.
You’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.
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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