CFObjective: Day 3 – Top Secret Scorpio

Ben Forta

Scorpio focus: Developer Productivity, Integration, Management & Admin New features have relation to Eclipse in some way AJAX Support

Controls – cfgrid, autosuggest, etc. Layout Wizards – ColdFusion/AJAX Application Wizard – Kick start for AJAX apps

Eclipse-based ColdFusion Debugger

Step through debugging Access to variables Breakpoints

This debugger is pretty cool.  Eclipse [...]

CFObjective: Day 3 – SOA with ColdSpring and Trans

Sean Corfield

Service-Oriented Architecture – Expose common business entities and operations to multiple clients across the enterprise. Adobe Hosted Services “Stanza” project

These concepts might be quite useful for our “bird” project.

SOA

Data Dictionary – Everyone needs to agree what a “customer” is. Service Directory – You need to be able to find [...]

CFObjective: Day 3 – Scorpiro 1337 r0x0r!

Jason Delmore

Scorpio features only a geek would love. * Some of this stuff may or may not make it into the product.

JavaScript Operators – very cool – !=, <, >, ++, ==, etc. I’ve been wanting “++” and”!=” since the very beginning! Implicit array and struct creation – excellent! <cfset myArray=[“Steve”,”Tim”,”John”> <cfset [...]

CFObjective: Day 2 – Sustainable Apps with Framewo

Matt Woodward

Overview of building sustainable apps using Frameworks.  Focusing on Mach II, but applicable to all frameworks. Kevin Tate – “Sustainable Software Development” – Good book to check out.

Technical Debt – builds up over time, gets worse as more changes are made.  Extremely hard to pay back.

Keys to Sustainable Dev

Working [...]

CFObjective: Day 2 – Scorpio Server Monitoring

Adam Wayne Lehman (not Jason Delmore)

Overview of Server Monitoring and Performance.

Wow!  Just tons of great features.  Not much to say here other than the tool gives you everything you could want.  This kind of tool has been missing from CF from day one.

Can see actual, individual sessions Can abort processes manually [...]

CFObjective: Day 2 – OO Architecture Back to Front

Matt Woodward – (coldfusionweekly.com)

Providing a practical example of real world ColdFusion object-oriented application architecture.

Interesting – Most devs think that the DB is the most important part of the app.  But if we had servers with unlimited RAM and never crashed, a DB wouldn’t be needed.  The Object Model is the most important [...]

CFObjective: Day 1 – AJAX with Scorpio

Sean Corfield

Over 100 AJAX libraries are out there.  (Really?)  That’s hard to believe. AJAX and Scorpio

Provides a rich set of UI controls Enable rich input/output Provide natural way to handle data management

New tags for layout and controls CFC results can be returned in JSON format Ability to bind data and methods [...]

CFObjective: Day 1 – Object Oriented Modeling

Hal Helms

Ontology – ask things like “what does it mean to be a customer?”  Beware of an unrelated collection of functions masquerading as a component. Big mistake is thinking about “attributes” of an object rather than it’s “responsibility”!  What responsibilities does a customer have?  What do they need to do that a normal [...]

CFObjective: Day 1 – Object Oriented ColdFusion

Nicholas Tunney – AboutWeb – Object Orientation for ColdFusion

I figured I needed an overview of OO in CF in a practical sense, so I checked out this session.

Basic OO overview – standard stuff The class is the core of OO – properties, constructors, accessors, object methods, sometimes CRUD. An object is an [...]

CFObjective: Day 1 – Keynote

Jason Delorme: Adobe – Keynote Scorpio Highlights

Very freakin excited about ColdFusion 8 AJAX support.  Jason indicates that Scorpio “leverages best of breed AJAX libraries”, ie, Yahoo UI.  You can also use Spry, but Yahoo UI will be the library for Scorpio.  Also very interested in AJAX data binding in Scorpio.  It took 20 [...]