Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org Kay Smoljak is running a series of interviews with framework developers and has a <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/06/frameworks-frameworks-everywhere/">summary article on SitePoint</a> that includes a survey of people's framework usag... http://corfield.org/entry/Frameworks_Frameworks_Everywhere seancorfield 2008-05-09T13:34:00-05:00 coldbox coldfusion coldspring farcry fusebox machii modelglue orm Mark Mandel just published the <a href="http://docs.transfer-orm.com/wiki/ReleaseNotes:1.0_Release_Candidate.cfm">release notes for the upcoming 1.0 Release Candidate</a> of Transfer. You can see just how busy he's been lately. The 1.0 RC should be a... http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_ORM_10_RC_Release_Notes seancorfield 2008-04-26T02:12:00-05:00 cfobjective coldfusion orm If you use Mark Mandel's awesome <a href="http://www.transfer-orm.com/">Transfer ORM</a> in a cluster, you've probably wondered what to do about keeping the cache in sync across servers in the cluster. I've had to solve this problem a couple of times... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_Cache_Synchronization_in_a_Cluster seancorfield 2008-04-14T20:56:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion coldspring j2ee orm oss That's a question that crops up over and over again. I've <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Which_Framework">blogged about it in the past</a>. My answer - as I'm sure most folks would expect - is "it depends". The question came up on a mailing list ... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Which_is_the_greatest_ColdFusion_framework seancorfield 2008-04-12T13:21:00-05:00 cfobjective coldbox coldfusion coldspring farcry fusebox machii modelglue orm No fair! No fair! Brian Rinaldi <a href="http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/27/Transfer-10-Secrets-Revealed">leaks the upcoming Transfer 1.0 release</a> along with the ColdBox-powered documentation wiki. Transfer continues to evo... http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_10__Brian_Rinaldi_teases_the_community seancorfield 2008-03-28T00:54:00-05:00 cfobjective coldbox coldfusion orm oss Brian Kotek has released his <a href="http://www.briankotek.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/14/My-Transfer-Decorator-Bean-Injector-Observer-Is-Now-Available">Transfer decorator bean injector observer</a> which I'm very excited about because I just needed t... http://corfield.org/entry/TransferDecorator_bean_injector seancorfield 2008-01-14T13:29:00-05:00 coldfusion coldspring orm Today I discovered an unpleasant aspect of working with Reactor and ColdSpring: if your database and code don't match and you have ColdSpring creating gateways or DAOs using Reactor as a factory bean, you can get the very helpful "Fatal Error" and no... http://corfield.org/entry/Debugging_Reactor__ColdSpring seancorfield 2007-11-13T02:10:00-05:00 coldfusion coldspring orm Mark Mandel is running an <a href="http://www.cfframeworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/30/workshop--Advanced-Transfer-ORM-Techniques">Advanced Transfer Workshop</a> via cfFrameworks on November 28th. I saw his Advanced Transfer presentation at cf.Obj... http://corfield.org/entry/Advanced_Transfer_on_cfFrameworks seancorfield 2007-10-31T01:59:00-05:00 orm coldfusion After the networking event, Joe Rinehart hosted a Birds of a Feather session on frameworks. He covered the new release of Model-Glue 2.0 for ColdFusion, the Alpha 1 release of Model-Glue for Flex (which looks very exciting!) and said that Model-Glue ... http://corfield.org/entry/CFUNITED_2007__Frameworks_BOF seancorfield 2007-07-01T13:08:00-05:00 cfunited07 coldfusion coldspring fusebox machii modelglue orm oss Brian Kotek has an <a href="http://www.briankotek.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/21/If-You-Use-ColdSpring-Use-Its-Full-Potential">excellent post about using ColdSpring to its full potential</a>, in response to a series of articles on Tom Chiverton's blog ... http://corfield.org/entry/Are_you_really_using_ColdSpring seancorfield 2007-05-21T18:24:00-05:00 orm coldspring coldfusion Lots of people like Ruby on Rails for the speed with which you can build web applications. One of the tradeoffs I often bring up in discussions of abstraction - which Rails offers in spades! - is that each layer of abstraction adds a certain amount o... http://corfield.org/entry/Rails_Scalability seancorfield 2007-04-18T21:43:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion fusebox orm It's official: <a href="http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&amp;ID=217">Transfer 0.6.3 Goes Final</a> says Mark Mandel. Not much has changed since the Release Candidate but now it is an official build. Mark will be at <a href="http://cf... http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_063_Released seancorfield 2007-04-17T17:31:00-05:00 cfobjective coldfusion orm Well, we want a good user experience designer / user interface developer and a good ColdFusion developer. For the first role, we want someone who can create crisp, clean user interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use. You'll have good graphic ... http://corfield.org/entry/Scazu_Wants_You seancorfield 2007-03-31T18:41:00-05:00 coldfusion coldspring fusebox orm scazu Mark Mandel, creator of the Transfer ORM system, is flying in from Australia to speak at <a href="http://cfobjective.com/">cf.Objective()</a>. Judith Dinowitz has <a href="http://www.fusionauthority.com/Community/4669-Mark-Mandel-on-Transfer-ORMs-and... http://corfield.org/entry/Fusion_Authoriy_interviews_Mark_Mandel_about_cfObjective seancorfield 2007-03-27T02:41:00-05:00 cfobjective coldfusion orm Following up on Matt Newby's comment on my recent post about Transfer, here's a bullet point comparison of Transfer and Reactor that I hope will help people who are looking at ORMs and trying to decide which one to use: Reactor: <ul> <li>Reactor... http://corfield.org/entry/Comparing_Transfer_and_Reactor seancorfield 2007-03-21T14:50:00-05:00 coldfusion orm