I had this question emailed to me "Is it customary to have SQL in CFWheels Controllers?" No. If it is very complex sql or a stored proc, I would create a cfc representing it in the models folder like this: models/myStoredProc.cfc <cfcomponent extends="Model"> <cffunction name="myfirststoredproc">...
Last week, " What technologies, other than ColdFusion, should a developer know? " was posted on Fusion Authority . I figured I would answer the question also. Feel free do blog your own "What technologies, other than ColdFusion, should a developer know?". It could be like a what to expect (or would...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden. See Show Page for Epoisode 4 more information Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the podcast
I'll be traveling to Melbourne, Australia next week to give an "Introduction Into ColdFusion on Wheels" workshop and attend cfObjective (AUZ) . I would love at least one more person to register for the the CFWheels workshop so please consider it if you are in the Melbourne area. The workspace was...
Recently, I was honored to be on the 2 Devs from Down Under podcast discussing an upcoming session for CFObjective ANZ titled "Task-Oriented Workflow With Adobe Flash & ColdFusion Builder". I edited down my discussion to just over 17 mins here. I was on a panel of 2 other speakers. If you wish to...
I setup up MXUnit Eclipse plugin with CFWheels this afternoon. The MXUnit documentation is very good. I downloaded MXUnit and dropped the mxunit folder in my Wheels root which happens to be the web root also. Then I installed the MXUnit Eclipse plugin . Once installed, I created custom Remote...
I did a quick 30 minute presentation over CFML open source options at Barcamp Omaha . I wasn't going to present this BarCamp but Ryan Stille egged me on so I had to run home to get my laptop :-) Thanks to Mathew Woodward for getting me slides from a previous presentation he gave. I was all over the...
I enjoy listening to Hal Helms and he recently was on an Engine Yard podcast, Cloud Out Loud . He brings a thought provoking perspective to discussions. He learned a new skillset, Ruby on Rails , after being a long time ColdFusion programmer. The podcast is definately worth listening to and is just...
A one day ColdFusion On Wheels intensive workshop will be held November 16th in Melbourne, Australia. It will consolidate the 2 day training held before CF.Objective this past year. You can find all the training details at the cf.Objective(ANZ) website with registration links . This 1 day workshop...
D2WC conference Just a reminder, the D2WC conference is coming up in a few weeks, July 14-16, in Kansas City. It is a conference focusing on workflow for designers and developers. Speakers We have some of the best speakers in the business at D2W. Many were here last year as well, like Paul Trani...
Awhile ago I worked on a Getting Started with Wheels (Google Doc version) guide in Google Docs. It is based on " Getting Started with Rails ". I saved from Google Docs as html then used pandoc to converted it to markdown. I am posting the guide on github for anyone to help. Getting Started with...
With another outstanding CFObjective over, I would like to mention d2w is coming up in July. This conference will have familiar faces from CFObjective and CFUnited along with many others since this conference focuses on Workflow for Developers and Designers . Sessions are geared toward improving...
There is only a week left till my first " Introducing ColdFusion on Wheels " class before CF.Objective() on May 10 and May 11th. This class is meant for anyone with some programming exprience. We will spend two days working through a single concept by creating a simple blog system, going from an...
In the first post of "So you want to contribute to CFWheels" , we created a free Github account and forked the CFWheels repo . This gave us our own repo we can change. We added a readme file, then sent a pull request to CFWheels . In this post, we will cover how to help CFWheels by contributing...
Here is a sample of training material for " Introducting ColdFusion on Wheels " on May 10 through May 11 before CF.Objective() in Minneapolis. One of the begining iterations we will cover is " CFML In 100 minutes ". Hopefully getting the class on the same level to learning CFWheels . There are only...
In this blog series I will be walking through how to contribute to an open source project on GitHub . I will assume you: Created a free GitHub account Set up Git (includes connecting to github) First we will fork and setup a local repos of the CFWheels project at...
I am proud to be conducting ColdFusion On Wheels training prior to CF.Objective at the Ramada Plaza Minneapolis . Please sign up , there are only 3 seats left! Here is a breakdown of the schedule. Tues (May 10) - 8:30 - 9:00 Setup your Environment - 9:00 - 10:45 Intro to ColdFusion - 10:45 - 11:00...
This is a pre- CF.Objective 2 day workshop on May 10-11 in Minneapolis, MN. ColdFusion On Wheels is a powerful web application framework that has become popular in the past few years. It is relatively easy to develop with and can be used for awesome sites like AmtrakGuestRewards.com , or other cool...
The winner of a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion Anthology for retweeting @markdrew's "Had a play with #CFWheels last night, and I rather like this framework. You should check it out: http://cfwheels.org/" message is: @nathanstrutz We had over 30 entries . Please checkout CFWheels . I used jQuery...
For the next 24 hours, whomever retweet's Mark Drew's twitter message "rt @markdrew Had a play with #CFWheels last night, and I rather like this framework. You should check it out: http://cfwheels.org/ #coldfusion #cfml" I'll hold a raffle and send the winner a free copy of Adobe ColdFusion...
I was asked to lead an Unconference session on CFWheels at the OpenCF Summit . They are hoping to have a session for each of the major MVC frameworks. It should be a great time to learn and hang out with fellow ColdFusion developers. The conference is in Dallas, TX from February 21-23. If you can...
Here is a list of issues resolved from the CHANGELOG : ```coldfusion select() ``` , ```coldfusion selectTag() ``` allow an array of structs to be passed to options Changed ```coldfusion default ``` argument on includeContent() to ```coldfusion defaultValue ``` Add ```coldfusion when ``` argument to...
I feel strongly you should not roll your own framework unless it is for learning purposes. Any new application, you definately need to use a framework, no matter how small. Please try one of the existing frameworks. You should eventually find one fitting you, your application, and deadline. The...
I attended the Omaha BarCamp 2010 this past Sat. The BarCamps I have attended are a great way to meet passionate creative people in your location. BarCamps are an unconference with user generated content. Whomever shows up can present on a topic they are passionate about. Here is a more about the...
Well, if you follow my blog you may remember I moved to Washington, DC nearly 2 years ago. It has been an interesting time. I have seen many embassies , been on lots of walking tours , and many boat cruises on the Potomac along with seeing all the memorials and some Smithsonians. I really enjoyed...
Two more CFWheels Plugins were added to Riaforge this morning. Less For Wheels (Active) from RIAForge LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules for CFWheels DataTables For Wheels (Active) from RIAForge Easily add fancy pagination with sorting, filter using DataTables (...
I generated ColdFusion On Wheels API html documentation for 1.0.5 and 1.1 beta 1. The documentation was generated by ColdDoc . I also have some Wheels wallpaper , downloads , and dictionary links under my Wheels section If I am missing any downloads, wallpaper, or dictionaries please contact me ....
I submitted four CFWheels plugins to Riaforge this morning. The plugins add to Wheels, some very smart people's work like Mark Mandel , Luis Majano , and the FarCry team. I will be releasing two other plugins dealing with Haml and CSS Less soon to Riaforge.....
Two weeks since the last ColdFusion & Github . I will start with what I missed. A Mango Blog plugin for gists was announced Aug. 16th. You may be wondering what the heck are GISTS? Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are...
Wheels is mentioned as a full stack framework sometimes. What does "full stack" mean? Full stack frameworks "often gathered multiple libraries useful for web development into a single cohesive software stack for web developers to use." The quote is from...
Title sound familiar? Well, I am borrowing it from Raymond Camden's post about his Aug 12, 12PM EST ColdFusion Online Meetup speaking engagement covering AIR, JQuery, and CFML. I will be presenting the same day at 6PM EST my CFUnited presentation over CFWheels . It will be slightly different, since...
I am working on porting Litepost to Wheels . Wheels had a Litepost competition awhile ago but didn’t follow the Litepost comparison idea.Litepost was conceived to compare different frameworks using essentially the same code. Once done, you will be able to compare how the same app is done in ColdBox...
Here is a link to my CFUnited ColdFusion On Wheels code, speaker notes, and slides. .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } CFUnited 2010 - ColdFusion On Wheels on Prezi
Reminder, there will be a ColdFusion On Wheels Birds of Feather (BOF) at CFUnited . The original time was Thursday 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm but this may have changed so check the schedule updates at the conference. ColdFusion on Wheels also has two sessions, ColdFusion On Wheels - Convention Over...
Download the binary from Url Rewrite Filter and read the instructions. It is 4 steps. I'll break from the steps after the first one. Step 1: "extract it into your context's directory ie, so that urlrewrite.xml goes into the WEB-INF directory." I download urlrewritefilter-3.2.0.zip and moved the...
Wednesday Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Start End Topic Track 9:00AM 10:30AM <td class="title" searchdata= "{"starttime":"9:00am","endtime":"10:30am","date":"2010-07-28"}"> Adobe Keynote 10:30AM 11:00AM <td class="title" searchdata= "{"starttime":"10:30am","endtime":"11:00am","date":"2010-07-28"}">...
This Tuesday, I will presenting to the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User Group over Wheels This will be an introduction into Wheels concepts and how to start using the framework. Wheels is using ideas from Ruby On Rails to help bring the joy back into coding CFML. Address 11350 Random Hills Rd....
MARC 0.4.5 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) Ubuntu 10.04 Eclipse 3.5 Improved ReadMe.html Blazing Fast Download with Amazon CloudFront Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...
Chaz Chumley mentioned ColdFusion On Wheels will be having two sessions and a Bird of Feathers at CFUnited 2010 . on the Wheels Google Group . I missed the original announcement on the BOF.
This past Sunday, I worked on updating MARC (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ). I haven't quite finished, but it will be using Ubuntu 10.04 and Eclipse 3.5 with the latest Wheels , CFEclipse , and Firefox. Available on my Wheels Download page is MARC 0.3, an older version. Also on...
Just a quick note to let people know that the Wheels Evangelism Team has been eliminated. I assume I will no longer be blogging on Wheel's blog . This will not affect my continued support of CFWheels (now I can refer to it as CFWheel again.) I will still be writing blog posts, speaking at user...
I have been touting Github for ColdFusion open source projects. I have a great example of why. Bob Silverberg has been working on ValidateThis for Wheels. This consists of two projects, the ValidateThis framework and a ValidateThis Wheels plugin . He forked my repository of the plugin and made a...
The Learning Wheels Litepost Contest is wrapping up on Feb 19th. It is meant for a hopefully, quick and simple intro into Wheels. Prize Grand Prize (one): $100 Amazon Gift card Runner Up Prizes (two): $50 Amazon Gift card Everyone: Free one year Mini Hosting Plan at Alurium Hosting (over $40 value)...
MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) smaller download 588.86 mb url rewriting Virtual Box Guest Additions readme.txt in the zip Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...
ColdFusion On Wheels announced a contest to create an example of LitePost using Wheels. LitePost is a simple blogging application used to demonstrate different ColdFusion frameworks implementations like Fusebox , Mach-II , Model-Glue , and ColdBox . Shortly after being posted, two other donations...
Thanks for everyone that attending live and anyone watching the recording later. Surprised someone didn't catch me sooner to clarify "CF is not Java", "CF programing is not the Same as Java programing" :-) Code
I am proud to announce I was accepted into the Adobe Community Professional for 2010!!! I have had an exciting month, due to ColdFusion On Wheels . I am not part of the Wheels core team , just some who found a framework that works like I code and have been trying to get the word out about it. You...
"JTidy is a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML syntax checker and pretty printer. Like its non-Java cousin, JTidy can be used as a tool for cleaning up malformed and faulty HTML." More information I was looking for something to clean up some html for pdf generation using cfdocument and found a...
Here is my first entry , 'Wheels Is Hanging with the Big Boys Just Fine', for the CFWheels.org blog. Take a look at the surprising stats (surprising too me at least.)
I gave a presentation over CFWheels on 11/10/2009 at the MDCFUG . Here is the recording and material related to the talk. Recording: Outline: Presentation Slides / Speaker Notes: Code Examples:
CFWheels Presentation Information - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm at the MDCFUG Topic: Inspired by Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion on Wheels provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. We will start by covering key principles of the...
There is an interesting thread going on with the CFWheels google group over switching to git . Does it really matter to community members what source control the project is using? Subversion is locked down to only committers who have access, so any community changes come via patches. Maybe using...
Chris Peters , member of the CFWheels team, added a page to their site called " Who's Using ColdFusion on Wheels ". It is great to be able to see sites using ColdFusion on Wheels. I am an advocate of CFWheels because it is simple and initiative for any ColdFusion developer to quickly create a...
I forgot I received an email awhile ago about translating the So you want to learn CFWheels series . I see the first installment has been done. Pretty Cool :-) E cos vuoi installare CFWheels?
CFWheels released 0.9.4 today if you haven't heard. I really enjoy using CFWheels because of the conventions and it was designed for ColdFusion based on Rails ideas. ColdFusion on Wheels provides an easy way for rapid development plus it has a built, simple to use Object-relational mapping ( ORM )....
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity and matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some concepts in CFWheels , added our basic flow and navigation , created add and list functionality ,...
This CFWheels series is heavy borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity and matches to this post Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some concepts in CFWheels, added our basic flow and navigation, created add and list functionality , and...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some basic conventions and concepts in CFWheels, added our basic flow and navigation , and most...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . Previously in this series, we installed CFWheels , discussed some basic conventions over configuration and concepts in CFWheels, and added our basic flow...
This CFWheels series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . We have installed CFWheels and talked about the files, Request Handling and URL Rewriting . If you setup URL Rewriting , you will be accessing our Contacts...
This series is heavily borrowed from Dan Wilson 's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue :Unity. This entry matches to this post . We will create an application to manage contacts starting from scratch. If you haven't installed CFWheels , check this post . Our application will reside in the web...
I am doing a series for the CFWheels framework similar to Dan Wilson 's "So you want to" series for Model Glue :Unity. Here is his . I will try to match each post but using CFWheels. My first post will cover installing CFWheels. CFWheels is a framework based on Ruby on Rails . I love the idea of...