Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org This cropped up on the TDD mailing list and it made me smile so I wanted to share it along with some commentary. A fairly common request from folks in the CF community is for "static" methods (and data members) to be added to CFML. Folks look at Java... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Static_is_Evil seancorfield 2009-12-12T20:44:00-05:00 tdd coldfusion architecture Over the last few days I've been working on a new MVC application framework for ColdFusion. It's very lightweight and completely convention-based. Beyond this introduction, I won't be blogging about it here but you can read all about about on the pro... http://corfield.org/entry/Introducing_FW1 seancorfield 2009-07-20T04:21:00-05:00 coldfusion architecture fw1 Marc Funaro kicked off quite a heated debate on his blog lately by raging against people pushing object-oriented programing/design and how his attempt to follow their advice nearly led to the collapse of his business. Marc was expressing a common fru... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/To_OO_or_not_to_OO_What_is_the_question seancorfield 2009-05-31T02:31:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion programming In the absence of a printable schedule - sorry, Joe Rinehart says it's a problem with the Media3 hosting and he's been trying to get them to fix it for months! - here is my schedule for <a href="http://cfobjective.com/schedule.cfm">cf.Objective() 200... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/My_cfObjective_2009_Schedule seancorfield 2009-05-11T14:54:00-05:00 adobe air architecture cfobjective coldbox coldfusion coldspring flex iphone j2ee jquery machii orm oss ria saas swiz tdd <a href="http://bennadel.com/">Ben Nadel</a> had a bit of a "crisis of faith" last week over his ability to learn OOP the "right" way. He's highlighted a problem most people have coming to OO these days: in their search for the One True Way(tm), they... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Designing_objectoriented_software_is_hard seancorfield 2009-03-30T12:34:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion programming There, I said it! I said it in a post to the cfcdev mailing list and Henry Ho felt it deserved a <a href="http://henrylearnstorock.blogspot.com/2009/03/dao-gateway-nonsense-in-cf.html">mention on his blog</a>. The topic came up because John Whi... http://corfield.org/entry/The_DAO_and_Gateway_separation_in_CFML_is_nonsense seancorfield 2009-03-03T23:06:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion Thinking in objects can be really hard and one of the biggest stumbling blocks for many who are new to OO design is identifying what are the right things in the problem domain to model as classes. This topic came up in a recent thread on the excellen... http://corfield.org/entry/How_do_you_find_your_classes seancorfield 2009-01-15T23:39:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion Several people have been blogging about the <a href="http://www.halhelms.com/are-you-oo-ready.cfm">OO Quiz created by Hal Helms</a>. I'd question the wording of a couple of the questions but it's a fun way to while away 15-20 minutes and it will defi... http://corfield.org/entry/Hal_Helms__are_you_OOReady seancorfield 2008-12-13T14:48:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion programming The preso I gave on Monday at the Devon CFUG and which I'll be giving in about an hour at the TVCFUG has been posted to the PRESOS section on my blog. It's a PDF with slides and notes since there are quite a few notes on this preso and it'll make it ... http://corfield.org/entry/Design_Patterns_preso_updated seancorfield 2008-10-01T12:20:00-05:00 coldfusion architecture Update: Bob just added Part VII so I'm updating this post to include that. <hr /> For ease of reference I just wanted to post a quick note highlighting Bob Silverberg's excellent series on using Transfer ORM and OO architecture: <ul> <li><a href=... http://corfield.org/entry/Bob_Silverberg_on_Transfer_ORM_and_Architecture seancorfield 2008-07-15T20:36:00-05:00 orm coldfusion architecture 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 Andrew Powell - <a href="http://cfobjective.com/sessions_architecture.cfm#SA3A">Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion and Java</a> - Saturday 11:25am We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of ent... http://corfield.org/entry/cfObjective_2008_Session_Focus__Enterprise_Class_MVC_with_ColdFusion_and_Java seancorfield 2008-03-31T02:37:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion j2ee machii My blog posts have been few and far between lately. I can only blame one of my clients. Right now I have three clients and one of them is keeping me busier than I could've imagine when I first took them on in November. For all three, I'm designing / ... http://corfield.org/entry/What_is_keeping_Sean_busy seancorfield 2008-02-08T04:01:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion I'm working with just three clients right now and with each of them I am essentially doing the same thing: taking an existing system that has been built up over a number of years and helping them rearchitect it for better maintainability and better s... http://corfield.org/entry/Architecture_Remixed seancorfield 2008-01-11T01:56:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion personal Luis Majano has <a href="http://www.iecfug.com/post.cfm/december-meeting-primer">just announced</a> that I will be encoring an extended version of my Design Patterns and ColdFusion talk at their <a href="http://www.iecfug.com/page.cfm/meetings">Decem... http://corfield.org/entry/IECFUG__December_7th__Design_Patterns_and_ColdFusion seancorfield 2007-11-19T23:49:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion