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Coldfusion Developers in the Central Georgia Area

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Previous Meetings

Programming Show & Tell.
RestFul API Design
Group Project: The basics of Adobe AIR
Group Project
Choosing git workflows that make sense

Past meeting notes

Topic: Coldfusion Discusson
Date: January 10, 2013
We had an open discussion about Coldfusion and led to Discussions of MVC Frameworks including FW/1 & DI/1, Coldbox and CFWheels. Some demos were given how to use the different frameworks at a high level and showed how each framework followed the MVC design pattern.

Topic: Coldfusion Certification
Date: September 8, 2011
We had a group discussion on Coldfusion Certification. Why should you be certified? What tools and materials are available to prepare to take the certification test.

Topic: Understanding the underlying patterns of MVC
Date: August 11, 2011
Presenter: Tim Cunningham
Recording: http://ow.ly/61fwr

Topic: Working with PDFs in Coldfusion
Date: Jun 9, 2011
Presenter: Tim Cunningham
Recording: http://ow.ly/5eJTe

Working with PDFs has never been easier with Coldfusion. This discussion talked on how to manipulate static PDF files including merging, creating thumbnails, watermarks, deleting pages, extracting images and more! It also touched on populating PDF Forms and caveats you may run into.

Topic: CF Wheels
Date: Feb 10, 2011
Presenter: Chris Peters
Recording: Connect

You're interested in ColdFusion on Wheels, but you have one big word in your vocabulary: legacy. You have a gigantic CFML application that would make the Flying Spaghetti Monster envious of its spaghetti-tasticness. Join this hour talk to learn what it would be like to finally start adding some structure to your uber application using the Wheels MVC approach, piece by piece.

But don't be fooled: rewiring a legacy application does not come without some challenges and a need for planning. No worries. I'll cover that with some different strategies to employ based on your specific needs and Wheels's features. You'll find that URL routing, ORM, and other OOP features in Wheels allow you to rebuild in small pieces, refactoring and integrating when needed.
-Taken from the Online Coldfusion Meetup

Topic: Coldfusion One Liners
Date: January 13, 2011
Presenter: Tim Cunningham

Coldfusion has always been know to make things super easy. Tim went through a few examples of what can be accomplished in Coldfusion with just one line of Coldfusion code. Special thanks to Sam Farmer for allowing us to use his slides.

Topic: OO and Coldfusion
Date: November 11, 2010
Presenter: Tim Cunningham

Tim discussed how one can go about implementing Object Oriented Programming in Coldfusion. He explained OO concepts and terms like inheritance, beans, accessors, mutators.

Resources:
Object Oriented Programming in Coldfusion by Matt Gifford
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : October 2010
ISBN : 1847196322
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847196-32-
Recording: Connect

Topic: JQuery + Cold Fusion
Presenter: Matthew Abbott

JQuery is an excellent JavaScript Library that is used for all sorts of fancy JavaScript work on the web. With minimal effort, you can add some very advanced features on your website.
In our meeting Matthew Abbott showed us how we could use JQuery with Cold Fusion to get data for some dynamic select boxes. It's very simple once you know how it works... though just by looking at the JavaScript code, you may be confused. In our meeting Matthew made it all make sense and we all saw just how simple it really is. Be sure and check out the resources on JQuery to familiarize yourself with it. Once you understand the syntax, it's very simple stuff!

Resources:
JQuery = www.jquery.com
Tutorials on JQuery = http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials

Download the sample code used in Matthew's meeting: jqueryDemo.zip

Topic: DADAO.CFC : Dynamic Application Data Access Object
Author: Wes Byrd

I have been asked to post this component that I wrote and presented at one of our meetings. I appologize for the delay. I wanted to make many updates before offering it up for download and use. You know the story... I just didn't find the time. So, here it is AS IS.
"One DAO to rule them all, one DAO to find them, one DAO to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Gandolf
Purpose: Why manage a multitude of DAO's for your system with you can use this single DAO to access all tables in your database no matter how often you change your database. Never manage a DAO source again!!! Click here to download the DADAO.cfc

Use Example:

[ INIT the DAO... just pass into the INIT function the table name. ]
<cfset membersDAO = createObject("component","dadao").init("members")>

[ Now execute the READ meathod to get the table data.  ]
<cfset membersTableData = memberEventsDAO.read()>

[ Pass a filter into the READ function to search for a record. ]
<cfset qSomeMembers = membersDAO.filter(membersDAO.read(),"member_name LIKE 'Wes%'")>

[ You can output your data just as if you ran a CFQUERY. ]
<cfoutput query="qFilteredResults">#member_name#</cfoutput>

[ Pass a structure into the INSERT function to add a record. 
  Struct field names must match the database field names. ]
<cfset insert = structNew()>
<cfset insert.member_id = "wbyrd">
<cfset insert.member_name = "Wes Byrd">
<cfset bla = rsvpDAO.create(insert)>

[ Pass a structure into the UPDATE function to update a record. ]
<cfset update = structNew()>
<cfset update.member_id = "wbyrd">
<cfset update.event_id = "Wes L Byrd">
<cfset bla = rsvpDAO.update(update)>