Is this Object Oriented (Enough)?
When people look at my code I get a wide range of responses from incredulous to dismissive to excited. I imagine it's not much different for most advanced developers. As I imagine is the case with...
View ArticleA New Model for Caching in ColdFusion (?)
NOTE: There has been new insight into the content of this article which invalidates much of what I originally wrote here. I'm leaving the article untouched for posterity, but I want everyone to know...
View ArticleA Strange Issue with CFC Performance
Generally speaking I'm not the first person to complain about performance. My response to performance issues generally is to figure out how well something must perform and then make it fill that need...
View ArticleWierd Performance Issue Resolved!
A couple days ago I posted an article where I showed a really strange problem with CFC performance. In short, when executing many method calls (hundreds or more) on a CFC in the variables scope of a...
View ArticleLimitations of Simplicity?
Okay, yeah, I'm breaking radio silence. :) There's been a lot going on around here and all my open source projects have been kind of on hold for the past month while these things get taken care of....
View ArticleSurvey Results Part 1 - Java, XML and Convention Over Configuration
For the past month or so I've kept all of my open source projects on hold. It's not because I haven't wanted to work on them... I absolutely have. There are several specific tasks that I'm looking...
View ArticleSurvey Results Part 2 - What Fusioneers Want (in a framework)
Okay so this isn't the best title ever, but I wanted to spoof the title of the movie What Women Want and this is what I got. :) I think it's appropriate, given the content of this article. In the...
View ArticleFrameworks Comparison Presentation - Today!
Here's an announcement I probably should have made last week. :) I'll be giving a presentation on the online ColdFusion meetup at 6pm today covering my Galleon project in which I ported Ray Camden's...
View ArticleFrameworks Comparison Presentation Recording
Thanks to everyone who came for the frameworks comparison presentation. We had a lot of folks show up and it seemed to go pretty well. :) For anyone who missed it or would like to share it with...
View ArticleonTap Framework Presentation Thursday
I'll be giving a presentation on the onTap framework this Thursday for the online ColdFusion User's Group. If you're not familiar with the group, you can check out their site at coldfusionmeetup.com....
View ArticleNew Model for Caching - Revisited
I'm still a bit surprised that this cache article is one of the more popular entries on the onTap framework blog. Surprised, and also flattered. :) Some of the information in that article turned out...
View ArticleCommunity Collaboration Chat
I have an active interest in collaboration within the ColdFusion community, particularly between projects. On Sunday, I'd like to talk about ways that we can foster more integration between various...
View ArticleCollaboration Chat Recording
I'm new to hosting discussions with Adobe Connect. ;) And it's taken me a little bit to figure out how to find the recording URL for the collaboration discussion we had the other day. For an informal...
View ArticleCollaboration Chat - the Sequel
Tomorrow, Tuesday around 6pm Central I plan to open up the CF Community Collaboration Chat room again for another session. This is an informal discussion of tools and techniques for improving...
View ArticleOnRequestEnd behavior changed in CF9 (was Request Variable Bug in ColdFusion 9)
Here's a weird one. I haven't had any luck finding any information about this on Google, so I'm wondering if any of you have seen this before? I've got a CFC in the request scope and then in the...
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