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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 4

Posted on Jun 04, 2007

No, this isn't a typo...we have 10 new projects this week and 7 updated ones (so much for the break of sorts I had last week). All I can say to you open-source developers and your endless new project ideas is that you may think you can break me, but you will realize you are wrong. In the famous(ly embarrassing) words of our President, "Bring 'em on!" ;)

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Generating Your Components with ColdFusion 8

Posted on Jun 04, 2007

I recently updated my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator (or just Illudium for short) with a component I actually wrote some months ago and recently updated. As most of you have probably heard by now, the ColdFusion 8 public beta includes a new database introspection tag - . This offers you a single, consistent API for getting database metadata, which is the core of how Illudium works, for all of ColdFusion's supported database systems. What this can mean for a project like mine is that I can offer support for every kind of database with a single component rather than the component per database system method that I currently employ, which is very exciting. I will cover some of the code to do this, which CF8 makes extremely simple, as well as some of the currently existing limitations.

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The Top-down CFML Open-Source Solution

Posted on Jun 01, 2007

I have agreed to help out as part of the cfopen team. Cfopen was the brainchild of Aaron Lynch and Dave Shuck and aspires to offer easy to use solutions for developers wishing to run CFML using open-source solutions from the top down - Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL/Smith. Along these lines, Aaron has been posting several VMs and how to's for setting up the different flavors of Linux.

One of the next steps will be certifying open-source projects to run on these environments, and that is where I hope to play a larger role. This should definitely be something worth watching.

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Objects and Composition in CFCs

Posted on Jun 01, 2007

Ever since I released my code generator I have received requests for examples on how to use the generated code (a topic which I will revisit in my upcoming cfframeworks workshop). This is in part because it is being used by some people as a way to introduce themselves to programming with an object-oriented methodology, which wasn't really the intent of the application, but I am glad if it does help people with difficult transition.

Recently, I have been receiving very similar questions from a range of generator users all relating to how to implement object composition in ColdFusion. This article is intended to give an introductory overview of creating objects and, more specifically, objects composed of other objects using ColdFusion components. In order to do so, I have created a sample application which is attached to this post, more on that later, first a note on using the generator.

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