Viewing by month: February 2007
Mach II or ColdSpring? Understanding the Differences Between ColdFusion Frameworks
Posted on Feb 27, 2007
So, you have been thinking about getting into frameworks and using Mach II but you have also been hearing a lot about ColdSpring. Which one should you use?
I am paraphrasing here, but this is a type of question I have seen from time to time posed on lists, blogs and elsewhere. In part this has to do with a generic use of the term "framework" to apply to a lot of different projects that solve entirely different problems. You could, for instance, build an application that uses Mach II, Transfer and ColdSpring, thereby using three (or more) frameworks in a single application and this would be totally appropriate. Why? Well because Mach II is concerned, in very general terms, with your overall architectual pattern, Transfer with your persistence mechanism and ColdSpring with managing dependencies within your model. Confused? Well, here is a guide to the most commonly referred to types of frameworks, the problems they attempt to solve and the well-known ColdFusion frameworks associated with that type.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 26
Posted on Feb 26, 2007
Another *very* busy week in ColdFusion open-source with four new projects, three updates and dozens of announcements and tutorials. On a side note, if this level of activity keeps up, I am debating splitting the updates out along the lines of the sections below with the thinking that they may be more manageable for me and that these are often getting so long I think many of the stuff towards the bottom gets lost. If I did that I would probably release one Monday, one Wednesday and one Friday (or something like that). Any thoughts from the readers on that? Would this be helpful, unhelpful or make no difference to you? Anyway, enjoy!
Building Your First Yahoo! Pipe
Posted on Feb 23, 2007
If you have already used Yahoo! Pipes yourself, you may be wondering why you need a how to on building a pipe since it is actually quite simple. However, after speaking with some friends, I was forced to admit that the interface makes it *seem* complex and intimidating - that is until you actually get started. So, for those of you who have not tried it yet, here is a simple tutorial on how I built the ColdFusion aggregator feed I discussed yesterday.
ColdFusion RSS Mashup Built with Yahoo Pipes
Posted on Feb 22, 2007
I was meaning to delve deeper into Yahoo! Pipes but I was inspired this afternoon by Ray's post about it. Anyway, I was able to whip up a pretty cool feed very quickly. Basically, in my usual day, I check both MXNA and FullAsAGoog since they don't both carry exactly the same feeds. Therefore, I decided to mix the two, throw in Feed-Squirrel for good measure and then filter TechMeme, Slashdot and DZone for the occasional post that related to ColdFusion (which they had none right now to no one's surprise). Anyway, you can see the result by going to:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/MMcI16HC2xG0ZlX1EpPZnA/
You can also subscribe to this feed there as well (the RSS url is http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/MMcI16HC2xG0ZlX1EpPZnA/run?_render=rss).
If anyone is interested in this or has any ideas on how I could make it better, I would be happy to hear them. My thought here is to have one place to look rather than many. Anyway, the tools Yahoo! provides here are seriously impressive.
Steve Bryant Presenting DataMgr to Boston CFUG
Posted on Feb 20, 2007
The February meeting of the Boston ColdFusion User Group will be held tomorrow at 6:30pm and will be at the Sun Life Financial offices in Wellesley (directions below). Our speaker will be Steve Bryant, who will be coming all the way from Oklahoma, and presenting his DataMgr open-source application (this is an in person meeting not a Breezo, though I may record it).