Monitoring ColdFusion Servers
December 23, 2008
Proper monitoring of you ColdFusion servers is important, sure you can use the monitor in ColdFusion Enterprise but this is next to useless when ColdFusion grinds to a halt. Read more »
Transfer and IBO
December 17, 2008
When I first started out learning OO I couldn't understand why a lot of people seemed to return a query object from their gateway when they are dealing with multiple records. The ColdFusion query object is a really nice feature of ColdFusion but it just doesn't fit in with my concept of OO. Read more »
Using Transfer's MetaData to construct queries
December 15, 2008
Thanks to Bob Silverberg's excellent series of posts on How I use Transfer, I've refined how my model is constructed by taking his ideas and modifying them to suit my own style. One of the things I wanted to be able to do with transfer is set up a basic search in my abstract Gateway (which I can override in my concrete gateway if I need to). Read more »
Transfer ORM Cheat Sheet
December 09, 2008
A little quick start guide I've put together for Transfer ORM Read more »
My OO form validation
December 05, 2008
One of the most common tasks that you'll do when building web applications is capturing data from a form. This is fairly straight forward if we go down the procedural root(although rather tedious task), but how do we do it when we want to be Object Orientated? Well, this is my approach. Read more »
$10 eBook - Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
December 04, 2008
Today's $10 eBook is "Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality" by Bob Walsh. This book is aimed at the developer who wants to become their own boss. The reviews on Amazon are really good, so if being your own boss is something thatappeals to you then it might be worth a look. Be quick though - tomorrow there will be a different book! Read more »
Version Control for Windows Users Presentation
December 01, 2008
Andy Beer and I did a presentation on Version Control for Windows Users to Devon CFUG last week. Here are the slides. Read more »