If you've made the leap to using CFCs, and you're hungry for more OOP thoughts, design patterns are the place to go. One of the most commonly used and asked about patterns is the Data Access Object (DAO) pattern. This post will introduce you to what they are, how to build them, and where to learn more.
22 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 11:25 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Sean Corfield has set up a 'permanent' Breeze presentation available at http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/r53173185. There's only a couple of folks in there right now, but it could become a good place to go to learn about CF, talk, and pass the time if your workload is low.
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 10:10 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
My earlier post on some ASP.NET and CF "OOPness" concerns was pretty muddy. Before anyone else comments/e-mails me, here are the main points I tried (badly) to get across:
1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 1:52 PM - Categories: .NET and ColdFusion
While the ColdFusion community has an avid interest in getting more OOP, the ASP.NET community seems to be running away from it. That's not to say ASP.NET isn't OOP - it's more like its development community doesn't want it to be.
15 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:29 AM - Categories: .NET and ColdFusion
I imagine that a lot of us have a helping of extra invites laying around - but over the past two days, my number has gone down one a day! On Wed., I had 6, Thursday - 5, and now I've got 4 available. Will they finally make it stop and go public?
4 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:55 AM - Categories: Off Topic
Well, since everyone's down there having fun in New Orleans and I'm stuck up here in Northern Virginia, I thought I'd do something a little rebellious and plug away at some C#.
I've currently just finished an early release of my first full C# + ASP.NET app, a simple forums application. It's fairly trick in that all logic takes place via Web Services, and the client really is just a dumb client.
However, I'm think going to write a ColdFusion client, mainly because I'd like to see it done. Expect some code, an online demo, and some performance test results shortly.
If I ever _really_ get the time, I'll rewrite the backend using the same architecture as the .NET version, and do some very interesting performance testing.
Have fun at MAX. Lucky devils.
2 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 11:08 PM - Categories: .NET and ColdFusion