Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org 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 Now that MAX is over and I've given my presentation at CFUNITED Express Bay Area, I've <a href="http://corfield.org/articles/DesignPatterns.pdf">posted the presentation</a> (612Kb PDF) to the "software" pod on my blog. Since there's a lot of "chatter... http://corfield.org/entry/Design_Patterns_and_ColdFusion seancorfield 2007-11-10T01:00:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion Since there seems to be some interest in this, I created a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/edmund-coldfusion/">mailing list for the project</a>. Quoting from the group's about page: <blockquote> Event-Driven Model Framework for ColdFusion. ... http://corfield.org/entry/Edmund__EventDriven_Model_Framework seancorfield 2007-10-24T15:11:00-05:00 coldfusion architecture edmund As folks start adopting more AJAX and Flex for their applications, I see a lot of questions about "how to use &lt;insert favorite HTML framework&gt; to handle AJAX/Flex calls?" This is based on two things (in my opinion - putting on my flame-retar... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/EventDriven_Model_Framework seancorfield 2007-10-23T23:46:00-05:00 edmund coldfusion architecture So I was gave a design patterns presentation at both MAXs... I figured I'd Google to see if I could find any coverage of it (no, I couldn't) and what turned up was <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Design_Patterns_in_ColdFusion_1">my own blog post</... http://corfield.org/entry/History_Repeats seancorfield 2007-10-19T23:57:00-05:00 adobemax07 architecture coldfusion j2ee With all the buzz around AJAX - especially with CF8 making it so easy - we're starting to see a lot of questions about how best to integrate AJAX with MVC frameworks like Fusebox, Mach II and Model-Glue. Brian Kotek has a <a href="http://www.brian... http://corfield.org/entry/MVC_frameworks_and_AJAX seancorfield 2007-07-26T10:16:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion fusebox machii modelglue Kola Oyedeji articulates a <a href="http://coolskool.blog-city.com/when_all_you_have_is_3_hammers_called_gateways_beans_and_d.htm">growing frustration</a> with CFers' use of design patterns that has also begun to bother me as more and more CFers try... http://corfield.org/entry/Using_Design_Patterns_without_thinking seancorfield 2007-07-25T11:46:00-05:00 coldfusion architecture Many of us have seen the (infamous) Ruby on Rails "Blog in 15 minutes" video and probably also Joe Rinehart's "Blog in 9 minutes" Model-Glue: Unity video. It makes it all look so easy. Wow! We should all use Ruby on Rails (or Model-Glue: Unity) becau... http://corfield.org/entry/What_it_takes_to_be_easy seancorfield 2007-06-15T15:02:00-05:00 architecture coldfusion programming Brian went to Hal Helm's talk at <a href="http://cfobjective.com/">cf.Objective()</a> about Object-Oriented Modeling and it sounds like it generated sound good discussion. In particular, Brian has written up a <a href="http://www.briankotek.com/blog/... http://corfield.org/entry/Brian_Kotek_on_Inheritance seancorfield 2007-05-09T21:35:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective 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