You can get the slides and ready-to-run example code (including saved copies of the expected output) from here.
It was really good fun, actually, giving the preso. - and it seemed to go fairly well. The feedback has all been very positive so far too, which is ace.
You can view the recording if you missed it at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p79554026/.
Thanks to all those who came and to Charlie for giving me the chance to do it.
Today I wanted to check if a particular record existed, given the primary key of that record and one additional field of it, and naively wrote:
If anyone has anything they'd like to see included, mentioned or explained let me know.
Doug Hughes has just posted that the first online meeting to talk about the future of the Reactor project is tomorrow, 5pm UK time, at http://connect.reactorframework.com/.
Reactor is my default ORM framework for ColdFusion applications, and I do have a few itches I'd like to scratch with it.
Come along and lets have a chat, plus you'll get to hear from the new project manager, Mark Drew.
Question: When is a ColdFusion structure not a structure, as checked by isStruct() ?
Answer: When the structure is a CFC !
There was a thread on CF-Talk about how best to split a large file up into records and then import them into a database - it happened to be MySQL but this note applies to every database I've ever used (including Oracle and MSSQL).
The quick summary is 'don't use ColdFusion for this'. Sometimes all you have is a hammer, and so everything looks like a nail - but there are much much more robust and much much faster ways of doing this.
Q. When is the ColdFusion administrator password not the ColdFusion administrator password ?
A. When the password contains a £ sign.
In the previous part, we saw how you can easily get up and running with the AOP features of ColdSpring in a ColdFusion project. But what practical use can this be put too ?
In this part I will show a simple piece of AroundAdvice that helps with reporting exceptions to clients of services. The next part will present a more complicated example - using BeforeAdvice to enforce security constraints and time-limited tokens.