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 »
Introduction to the ColdSpring Framework Presentation
September 29, 2009
I'm pleased to announce that Adobe Community Expert, Brian Rinaldi is presenting "Introduction to the ColdSpring Framework" to Devon CFUG tomorrow evening from 6:30 UK time. As the session is going to be over connect, I'm willing to open it up to anyone who would like to join us. Read more »
Lightwire import node support
September 26, 2009
I've been using Lightwire recently, and missed being able to define my beans in multiple XML files using the import node, so I added support for it. Read more »
Inject ColdSpring into your Beans
June 30, 2009
I've recently discovered that ColdSpring has the ability to inject itself into any of the singletons that it manages. 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 »
ColdSpring arrays and structs
March 05, 2009
I found out today that you can create structs and arrays in the ColdSpring configuration file. I've haven't actually used it yet, but it could be quite useful for setting up configurations. Read more »
ColdSpring DI with onMissingMethod
March 05, 2009
I've had the chance to play around with ColdSpring today. One of the things I wanted to know was if you could use it with onMissingMethod to pass in dependencies. Read more »
remote cfc calls and this.mappings
February 13, 2009
I've recently started looking at the remote proxies feature of ColdSpring and found that you can't use this.mappings with remote cfc calls. Read more »
Using Paul Marcotte's Metro
January 13, 2009
I have been trying out Paul Marcotte's Metro. In Paul's words; "Metro is a library of components to support rapid development of applications that use ColdSpring and Transfer ORM." To me it is more than this. Read more »