Entries Tagged as ColdFusion
What is better than a FREE T-Shirt?
Posted on July 23, 2010 in ColdFusion
What could be better than a FREE t-shirt? How about a FREE t-shirt plus 10% off AMS consulting work!
What is AMS?
Posted on July 23, 2010 in ColdFusion
Application maintnenace can easily consume over 50% of the time and cost during an application's lifespan. As developers, we like brand new development because it is fun and exciting. We get to start with a clean slate and design a masterpiece. Maintenance work is ... well ... maintenance work. You have to go dig through somebody else's code (or worse, your own) and try to work in changes and bend code to do things it was not originally intended to do. This is where AMS comes in. AMS is ColdFusion Application Maintenance Services by Admentus.
Today's Light Bulb Moment - Configuration Beans
Posted on October 14, 2009 in ColdFusion, ColdSpring
In the past, I have always utilized an xml file that would contain all of the configuration information for an application … things like data sources, paths, etc. Then, in the application.cfm/cfc file, I would read that xml file, parse it into a structure and store that structure in the application scope. Recently however, I came across an application that was originally designed using a series “config” beans. The application was pretty rough and I was doing a lot of refactoring, so I just inserted my usual xml config file, commented out the beans and moved on without really considering the potential benefits.
ColdFusion 9 ORM on Tomcat Gotcha
Posted on September 18, 2009 in ColdFusion
I am sitting here working through an application that makes use of the new ColdFusion 9 ORM capabilities. I have a simple business object that I created using EntityNew(), then populated it, and attempted to save it using EntitySave(). Nothing fancy and everything straight out of the docs.
The problem was, when I ran this code I would just get a blank screen – no errors, nothing.
Hibernate & ColdFusion 9 – What is ORM?
Posted on September 18, 2009 in ColdFusion, Hibernate
Before we dig into Hibernate, I wanted to take a quick textbook look at what ORM is since Hibernate is an example of an ORM framework. ORM spelled out is object/relational mapping. One text I read said that the slash between object and relational is supposed to emphasize the mismatch problem that occurs when the object oriented world meets the relational world.
ColdFusion 9 ORM on Tomcat Gotcha
Posted on September 18, 2009 in ColdFusion
I am sitting here working through an application that makes use of the new ColdFusion 9 ORM capabilities. I have a simple business object that I created using EntityNew(), then populated it, and attempted to save it using EntitySave(). Nothing fancy and everything straight out of the docs.
The problem was, when I ran this code I would just get a blank screen – no errors, nothing.
A New Series: Hibernate & ColdFusion 9
Posted on September 15, 2009 in ColdFusion, Hibernate
Recently I have been working on a project using Groovy and Hibernate amongst other technologies and while I have definitely missed ColdFusion, it is good to get out of your comfort zone on occasion. The problem with using new technologies in a project setting is that most of your focus is on delivering the project and not on really learning the ins and outs of the technology. So, with a few minutes of breathing room allotted before the next project, I wanted to delve a bit deeper into Hibernate, especially with its integration into the next major release of ColdFusion.
Data Validation vs. Object Validation
Posted on October 27, 2008 in ColdFusion, Object Oriented Development
Back when I was working on the Validat project, one of the topics of discussion was whether validation should occur at the object level or at the data level (i.e. a collection of user submitted data). This topic came up again last week on Ben Nadel’s blog with his postings regarding his class experience with Hal Helms. The comment Ben made that really got me thinking again was ….
"An object can only ever exist in a valid state. An object should never be created or allowed to enter a state that is not valid within the domain."
What is a DSL?
Posted on September 22, 2008 in ColdFusion, Object Oriented Development
Peter Bell has been talking about domain specific languages for some time now, but I expect they are still a pretty foreign concept to many people, myself included not too long ago. However, if you have used any of the popular ColdFusion frameworks like Model-Glue, Mach-II, ColdSpring, etc., then you have actually used a DSL in their XML configuration files.
MSSQL Driver Issue with CF 8.0.1
Posted on September 18, 2008 in ColdFusion
This is one of those cases where being on the leading edge of technology causes issues. I just got a new workstation that is running the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. I installed the 64-bit version of ColdFusion 8.0.1 with the latest hotfixes etc. and everything was going well. That is, until I tried setting up an MSSQL datasource. Apparently there is something wrong with the drivers that ship with CF 8.0.1 as I was not able to connect to a local MSSQL server or a remote MSSQL server. Any time I tried creating a new data source, JRun would crash.
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