CF9 ORM blog sample application
July 31, 2009
Mark Mandel wrote an simple blog application to demonstrate how to use Transfer ORM. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to update it to run using the in-built ORM capabilities on ColdFusion 9. Read more »
RIA Unleashed for a mere $30
July 29, 2009
In case you missed it, Brian Rinaldi has announced "RIA Unleashed", a one day conference in Boston. The event will take place on Friday November the 13th and will have 3 tracks focusing on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR. Read more »
Select Top n with CF9 ORM
July 28, 2009
A couple of quick examples of loading the first 5 records using EntityLoad and ORMExecuteQuery Read more »
PHP/CFML Server Comparison
July 26, 2009
I've been putting together a document on the difference between running a CFML application in the Enterprise compared with a PHP application, to show to clients. I should stress that client's are interested in performance versus server costs. This list is based on running an enterprise level application. Read more »
EntityLoadByPK - undocumented cf9 method
July 23, 2009
I was reading Rupesh Kumar's blog where he'd posted this example: EntityLoadByPK("Artists", 1); I hadn't seen the EntityLoadByPK method before, so I went off to check the docs and couldn't find it. Read more »
cfspec has method with CF9 ORM
July 21, 2009
I've been hacking cfspec again! I'm working on a application which takes advantage of the ORM capabilities of ColdFusion 9. ColdFusion generates the getters and setters for you for each property of a persistent entity. Because of this shouldRespondTo() will fail. Read more »
jQuery Password Mask - DIY
July 17, 2009
I was reading Jakob Nielsen's post Stop Password Masking. I like the idea of letting the user decide if they want to be able to see their password or have it masked. The developer in me kicked in and I decided I should try to write the code myself. Read more »
Getting metadata from CF9 ORM
July 17, 2009
As I think everyone knows, ColdFusion ORM is based on hibernate. ColdFusion gives access to the hibernate session via ORMGetSessionFactory() which means we can get a whole load of information. Anyway, here are some handy methods that you might want to use in you abstract Entity (or base Entity) cfc, (which each persisted entity cfc should extend). Read more »
cfquery in cfml with parameters
July 15, 2009
Just a quick post about using queries in cfscript with named parameters. Read more »
ColdFusion 9 language enhancements
July 15, 2009
As part of the Adobe User Group Tour 2009 I presented to Devon CFUG on ColdFusion 9. As part of that presso I wrote a couple of simple demos of the script enhancements, which I thought I might as well post here. So here they are! Read more »