Nov
1
1999
Arf! Video Demo - Write CF faster. A lot faster.
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:22 AM
2 comments - Categories:
ColdFusion MX | Model-Glue | Arf!
I had a spare hour this morning (my dog's doesn't understand the shift back to standard time yet), so I recorded a Camtasia demo of Arf! in action. This shows the ArfBlog demo I blogged about yesterday in action, and a great unblogged "Step 11" that shows where Arf! can really be cool.
The video (about 10 minutes) is available at http://clearsoftware.net/demos/arfTenSteps.
I'm still taking names of interested testers. I'm especially looking for people who can test against PostgreSQL and Oracle, as I don't run those.
The project is coming along faster than I thought, so there will be AlphaBits available shortly.
Rob Cameron wrote on 11/01/05 11:25 AM
Nice job dude! I'm also a CF coder who's been lured by the siren song of Rails. I was working on a ColdFusion implementation that followed the framework of Rails (called ColdFusion on Wheels). I'm so used to the simplicity of writing Ruby code that when porting the same ideas to ColdFusion I find all kinds of spots where the coder will have to remember to run all sorts of CFC initializations and method calls. Rather than just write what's needed, he/she will have to remember to call random methods to get stuff to work right. Very discouraging.I see the same thing in Arf! here, you can't just truly treat the data as an object, you have to instantiate your CFC, pass in parameters for relationships, all kinds of stuff that isn't necessary in Rails, so it just feels "wrong." Not your fault, of course, it's a necessary evil due to the way ColdFusion works.
I'll be watching this closely to see where it goes ...