This is Mark Mandel's Blog on ColdFusion, Java, software development, and other random musings.
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I'm delighted to say that I'm speaking at cf.Objective() again this year!I've got three sessions I'm presenting this year, two of which on my own, and one in which I'm paired with with Luis Majano.I'll be talking about:A/B Testing with SquabbleIn …
One of the most powerful new features in Coldspring 2 is the ability to create custom xml schemas thatcan be used within your XML configuration.Rather than go into the details of how to write and configure custom schemas, here is an example of one that comesbundled with CS2 out of the …
This is something I did a while ago, but for whatever reason, totally forgot to announce publicly.Thanks to the power of distributed version control, there is a copy of the Git repository for ColdSpring 2 on Sourceforge, as well as one on GitHub.It goes without saying that GitHub really is the …
ColdDoc is one of those projects I don’t work without these days. No matter the project, I’ve always got a stack of CFCs in it, and I need a way to document what objects I have, and what methods they have on them. A great example being the ColdSpring 2 project. …
With the rewrite of ColdSpring , a whole load of documentation also needed to be ported, and in some cases, actually written for the first time, for existing functionality as well as new functionality.Unfortunately it became a real sticking point with getting a release of ColdSpring 2 out of the …
After a long 2 years of development, ColdSpring 2, Alpha 1 is ready for release!It’s been a long road getting here, but with the rewrite of ColdSpring, means that ColdSpring 2 comes with a stack of new functionality that should help you out with all your dependency injection needs, and …
I’ve been reading quite a few mailing list posts on ColdFusion based ORM, and I find that I’m seeing a lot of repeats on what configuration settings people are generally using when setting up ORM in their Applicaiton.cfc, and why they should use certain settings.I figured it …
If you managed to miss my talk on Using ColdFusion Frameworks for Application Development, you can catch the recording here. I really enjoyed giving this talk, but it wasn't until I was well into the talk that I realised how much there was to cover (didn't feel like that much …
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On the 2 Developers Down Under podcast that myself and Kai Koenig run, we've been interviewing speakers from the cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex conference, which was strongly inspired by the CFHour podcast (okay, we stole the idea), to give listeners a taste of the content of the conference, …
Next week I'm proud to (slightly belatedly) announce that I will be doing a presentation entitled Using ColdFusion Frameworks for Application Development at next weeks online ColdFusion Developer Week.We will cover a basic introduction to Model-View-Controller, Dependency Injection and …
