argumentCollection - learn it and love it!
February 16, 2010
I'm posting this in case other developers aren't aware of what you can do. Last time I blogged about per-application mappings, this time it is the turn of the argumentCollection parameter! Read more »
Using Brian Kotek's FormUtilities CFC with ColdBox 3
December 15, 2009
I've been playing around with ColdBox 3 beta for a while now and decided I wanted to have an interceptor which utilises Brian Kotek's excellent FormUtilities CFC. Read more »
Creating Gateways using a GatewayFactory for ORM
October 08, 2009
Joe Reinhart blogged earlier this week about his ColdFusion 9 ORM: Generic DAO wrapper. I've been playing around with something similar (although I don't have a dynamic finder method like Joe has) which uses a Gateway Factory and an Abstract Gateway and thought I'd post my code here in case anyone was interested. Read more »
Comparing ColdBox and Fusebox
April 10, 2009
I decided to convert a Fusebox application (which uses ColdSpring) to ColdBox as learning new frameworks is always good. Here are the basic comparisions between a Fusebox XML, Fusebox no XML, and ColdBox controller (or event handlers in ColdBox). Read more »
Using ColdBox to power Flex
April 10, 2009
I'm using ColdBox (the 2.6.3 release) for the first time on a client site and one of the reasons for choosing it is the ColdBox Proxy. This allows you to use ColdBox as an event-driven framework for handling remoting. What is really neat about it is that you can monitor remote calls which is a great way of debugging your applications. Read more »
Railo really is fast!
April 02, 2009
I've had a few hours spare so thought I'd see for myself if Railo is as fast as I've heard. Well, after running a few of my own mini applications I can backup the claims. Read more »
Coldbox 2.6.0.
April 21, 2008
I've been keeping my eye on the Coldbox framework for ColdFusion and have heard a lot of positive things about it. I've been a Fusebox user since version 4 came out; whilst I liked the concept, Fusebox 3 just wasn't mature enough. Coldbox and the fuseb… Read more »