using the right technology at the right time
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:
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.
I’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?
I have decided to take the lead role of the ColdFusion on Wheels project. I am developing some business-critical projects on top of the framework, and I personally want to see it flourish. This is a major commitment, so I did need to hesitate for a moment and think about what I was getting into. [...]
I was excited to see that Adobe sped up the CreateObject(“component”) function in ColdFusion 8. Was I finally able to use beans without dramatically slowing down my page loads? The answer is no, but you should continue reading to see how I got to use beans in my ColdFusion project. ColdFusion components suck at beans [...]
After reading the Macromedia Web Technology Group’s (WTG) ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines document, I was excited to learn some great tips about how to secure CFCs, custom tags, includes, and config files. Read on to find out more.
When trying out cfform for the first time in my ColdFusion MX 7 hosting environment, I received a JavaScript error: Error: ‘lc_id’ is undefined. This post explains how I fixed the error.
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.
