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 »
Transfer ORM snippets
May 05, 2009
Just a quick post to say that I've added a Transfer ORM library of snippets to www.cfsnippets.org 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 »
manytoone and a onetomany in Transfer ORM
March 24, 2009
There is a page on the Transfer ORM docs entitled "Can I use the same foreign key for a manytoone and a onetomany?". The short answer is no, but sometimes you need to be able to get the data, so how can you do it? Read more »
Modelling a properties map with Transfer
March 16, 2009
When I started to build a properties map with Transfer, I initially created a onetomany relationship between my User object and UserProperty object. This works, but means that you end up creating a lot of Transfer objects, which are unique to the individual User. This is a potential performance problem, so another solution was required. Read more »
Inheritance with Transfer
February 03, 2009
Bob Silverberg and Paul Marcotte have come up with a solution, but I felt that my needs were different so went down a different root. Now before I go any further I should point out that I'm quite new to Transfer and not in the same league as Bob and Paul, but, disclaimer over, this is what I came up with. 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 »
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 »