This was a 20-minute preview (plus Q&A time) of his CFObjective presentation, which will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, and give a very high level overview of the core functionality of Transfer.

Ray discusses various forms of datatypes available to ColdFusion, specifically focusing on the things that may be confusing to newbies. (And to be clear, this is a presentation for folks new to ColdFusion).

Planning to move to CF8? Did you skip either 6 or 7? Or have you perhaps installed and been running on them but doing little or no new development? Were you paying attention as all the new features (and folks' experiences using them) were being shared? There may be a lot you've missed. Veteran CFML d...

Paul Kenney presents Test Driven Development with cfcUnit.

Brian Kotek demonstrates using his Stub cfc generator to produce cfcs unit tests, mock objects and more

DataMgr is a Data Access Layer component set.

It simplifies CRUD interactions with the database (speeding up development time) and has a common API for any supported database (and makes adding a new database easy).

DataMgr is not an ORM, but you could build an ORM on top of ...

One hour presentation by Peter Bell on the LightWire Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control framework. Peter discussed constructor, setter and "mixin" injection as well as the concept of "Ghetto Annotations."

Simeon Bateman just put together a quick video tutorial showing how to get the latest Fusebox source code from the Subversion repository using Subclips...

One of the first things a web programmer learns is that the web is stateless. To get around this fact, web programmers use a variety of methods including form, URL, and cookie variables. A user can manipulate all of these variables, however. So, for example, you wouldn't pass the price of a product t...

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