Using Partials In CFWheels To Keep DRY
One of the things I like about CFWheels is that its based on sensible conventions. If you follow these conventions, they can really save you a ton of time writing boiler-plate code as well as...
View ArticleCFWheels Eclipse Dictionary Updated
A while back I created a dictionary file for Eclipse based editors that would provide code insight and code completion for the CFWheels methods. This works in both ColdFusion Builder and CFEclipse....
View ArticleColdFusion on Wheels Version 1.1.2 Released
ColdFusion on Wheels has released version 1.1.3 today. This is mostly a bug fix release, but addresses a couple issues I had in 1.1.1 particularly. The upgrade is simple, just replace your current...
View ArticleDynamic Finders in CFWheels
One of the unexpected treats to using CFWheels is how much more readable it can make your code. Im not a big fan of inline comments because I believe in self-documenting code. One of the features of...
View ArticleCFWheels – Find Through Association
When I first started learning CFWheels, I was so enamored with how simple it was to retrieve data from the database using the built-in ORM that I would code for days without taking full advantage of...
View ArticleCFWheels – Move Finders Into Your Model
One of the principles of CFWheels is not duplicating code. This can be achieved a number of ways, but one in particular can also save you some time. Typically our find() methods used to retrieve data...
View ArticleTextmate Bundle For CFWheels Updated
I finally got around to updating the CFWheels Textmate bundle to version 1.02 last night. Its mostly a few fixes related to snippets but the primary reason for updating it was to add full support for...
View ArticleDeploying ColdFusion Apps With Capistrano Part 1
I love developing in ColdFusion, but one of the reasons I spend time learning other languages/frameworks is so I can get a feel for what things others are doing that could help make our jobs a little...
View ArticleDeploying ColdFusion Apps With Capistrano Part 2
In my last post, I covered the basics of what we are trying to accomplish and some basic requirements and setup. Hopefully by now, even you Windows users have Ruby installed and the needed gems,...
View ArticleDeploying ColdFusion Apps With Capistrano Part 3
Hopefully by now you have had a chance to play around with Capistrano and had a chance to deploy one of your apps. If you have and your anything like me, Im sure you ran into a situation where you...
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