Mark Mandel Transfer ORM Breeze Presentation

Posted on Nov 01, 2006

As part of my efforts to use the Adobe Community Expert provided Breeze account to promote open source projects, I will be hosting Mark Mandel who will be discussing his Transfer ORM (object relational mapper). Mark will be presenting via Breeze and will be specifically covering new features in the latest release (version 0.6) now in public beta. The presentation will be on Monday, November 6 at 4pm EST (that is actually 8am Mark's time in Melbourne, Australia I believe). If you would like to attend, please RSVP by commenting on this post.As many of you may already know, I have personally used Transfer to build my recent update to the ColdFusion Open Source List and I was really impressed. The following is Mark's description of the presentation:

When developing an Object Oriented web based application, it is normal to have a database with relational tables and a series of objects that represent that data. Often, the amount of time and effort it takes to manually map these objects back and forth from a database is large, and can be very costly.

Object Relational Mappers (ORM) were developed to cut down the amount of time this process takes, and automate the translation between a relational database and an Object Oriented system.

Transfer ORM's main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application. Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database.

This presentation will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, and the use case for using one within web application development.

From there the presentation will look at Transfer, its main capabilities and how some examples of how it is utilized.

Please RSVP by commenting below. The URL for the presentation is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r89706524/, but please RSVP so we can know how many people to expect.

Comments

Rob Gonda The Rob's in.

Posted By Rob Gonda / Posted on 11/01/2006 at 10:20 PM


Justin Carter I'll be happy to attend :)

Posted By Justin Carter / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 12:41 AM


Brian Rinaldi Sorry about this, but I messed up the time - it is 4pm not 3pm. I corrected the post, and just let me know if that changes whether or not you can make it.

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 6:56 AM


Bernie Dolan You can count me in.

Posted By Bernie Dolan / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 7:40 AM


Terry Schmitt Count me in.

Posted By Terry Schmitt / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 9:30 AM


Dave Shuck I am in.

Posted By Dave Shuck / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 9:50 AM


Andy Clary I'm planning on attending. I never know what might happen that day, though.

Posted By Andy Clary / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 11:03 AM


Baillard Another RSVP

Posted By Baillard / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 11:28 AM


Sean Corfield I'd like to attend please! (Yes, I already use Transfer but I often learn new stuff about a framework / library when the author presents on it)

Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 1:25 PM


Kirk Holbrook, MFPUG I'd love to attend the presentation, but I have a meeting with a client at that time. Any chance that you'll be recording it?

Thanks.

Posted By Kirk Holbrook, MFPUG / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 1:33 PM


Ouz Demirkap1 +1

Posted By Ouz Demirkap1 / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 1:36 PM


M McDonald This is my RSVP.

Posted By M McDonald / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 2:05 PM


Peter Bell +1

Posted By Peter Bell / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 2:39 PM


Dan Sorensen +1

Posted By Dan Sorensen / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 3:55 PM


Blaine Bradbury I'm tentatively on board.

Posted By Blaine Bradbury / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 4:17 PM


Steve Bryant +1 barring any emergencies.

Posted By Steve Bryant / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 4:38 PM


Michael Wright I'm in.

Posted By Michael Wright / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 4:40 PM


Alex Aguilar one more

Posted By Alex Aguilar / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 4:52 PM


John Blayter count me in

Posted By John Blayter / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 5:35 PM


Kirk Brogdon I would like to attend

Posted By Kirk Brogdon / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 5:56 PM


Russ Johnson There will be 2 of us on at my location watching it on the 40" flat screen....

Posted By Russ Johnson / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 7:37 PM


N Nair One more.

Posted By N Nair / Posted on 11/02/2006 at 8:05 PM


Sam Mitchell +1

Posted By Sam Mitchell / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 8:04 AM


Matthew Lesko +1

Posted By Matthew Lesko / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 8:51 AM


Tom Cornilliac I'm in

Posted By Tom Cornilliac / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 10:08 AM


Dante Orlando +1

Posted By Dante Orlando / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 12:58 PM


Chris Phillips Me too.

Posted By Chris Phillips / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 3:00 PM


Nick Tong I would like to but can't - will it be recorded?

Posted By Nick Tong / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 5:27 PM


Brian Rinaldi Yes, I will be recording it.

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 5:32 PM


Joe Rinehart +0.5. I should be able to make it, but may have to watch the recording.

Posted By Joe Rinehart / Posted on 11/03/2006 at 9:16 PM


charlie arehart Hey Brian, sounds interesting. Since you'll be recording it, can I ask you also to add the URL for the recording (when done) to the UGTV repository of recorded presentations? It's a very simple process (just need title and URL, and your name and email--which is not exposed, and other fields are optional). It's another great way to share the presentation to a wide audience. Thanks in advance.

Posted By charlie arehart / Posted on 11/04/2006 at 3:42 AM


tof yes, count me in. Although if Mark shoots the preso at work, i might watch it on his screen, it's bigger than mine :D.

Posted By tof / Posted on 11/05/2006 at 1:24 AM


M@ Count me in

Posted By M@ / Posted on 11/06/2006 at 6:11 AM


Scott Stroz +1

Posted By Scott Stroz / Posted on 11/06/2006 at 8:06 AM


Aaron Conran i'll be there

Posted By Aaron Conran / Posted on 11/06/2006 at 11:17 AM


Brian Rinaldi Just a reminder that this meeting will begin in approximately 25 minutes. The URL is http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r89706524/

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 11/06/2006 at 2:36 PM


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