Transfer allows you the option of having the database handle your IDs for new records (e.g. 'identity' in MSSQL or 'auto_increment' in MySQL), which is the default behavior for Transfer, or you can have Transfer generate your new IDs for you by utilizing the 'generate' attribute on your ID tag in your transfer.xml config file, and setting it to 'true'. I personally prefer having the database handle my IDs for me, so I never really paid much attention to this particular feature of Transfer until recently.
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Posted on July 21, 2008 at 2:28 AM in
ColdBox, ColdFusion
Luis Majano announced that ColdBox hit 2.6 Final Release today. This release boasts a number of new features. Here is a quick overview of some of my personal favorites:
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For quite some time now, I have been asked to add the cfUniForm custom tag library to RIAForge. I've been resisting doing so because the library is actually just a small portion of a huge library that I intend to eventually release, and I wanted to wait until everything was ready for release before going the RIAForge route.
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The latest release of cfUniForm includes a couple of new features, along with a minor bug fix.
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Posted on July 15, 2008 at 6:22 AM in
ColdFusion
I wrote some brand new validation routines over the weekend and went to test them out tonight; lo and behold, they completely failed. Pass valid data, and they simply failed. I was scratching my head. I've written a ton of regex (regular expressions) over the years, so I knew that my regex was correct. It had to be something else.
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Posted on July 11, 2008 at 7:11 AM in
ColdFusion, Transfer
When using Transfer in your application, you'll often have a One-to-Many (o2m) or a Many-to-Many (m2m) relationship in your Transfer config file. If you review the generated methods docs, you will see that you can grab an iterator with which to loop over the object collection. When you do, don't be a dweeb like me and create a never-ending loop.
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Posted on July 4, 2008 at 12:36 AM in
ColdFusion
One of the questions I have always asked myself when writing an application that sends out emails (most applications do) is: "should I write HTML or plain text emails?" As you know, most but not all email clients support HTML emails, and still other users disable HTML emails for one reason or another.
"Yeah," you say, "that's why ColdFusion has the 'type' attribute on the <cfmail> tag." And you are absolutely correct in saying so. But that doesn't solve the problem of how to write the email in your code; it only solves the problem of how to send the email.
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Posted on July 4, 2008 at 12:28 AM in
ColdBox
Ontario, CA, July 3, 2008 - ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars today announced an Early-Bird Special discount registration price of just $1,195 for their October 2008 ColdBox Platform 101 seminar to be held in Dallas, Texas. Registrants can take advantage of this $200 savings over the full seminar price of $1,395 by completing their registration before 5PM (Pacific Daylight Time) on July 31, 2008.
The ColdBox Platform 101 Seminar is a 2-Day Introduction to ColdBox and ColdBox Platform Application Development providing 16+ hours of intense, hands-on training with ColdBox author Luis Majano and other qualified ColdBox Trainers in an intimate setting with only 15 seats available. Attendees will be guided through a quick overview of ColdBox and then step-by-step instruction on putting ColdBox to work for themselves in their own applications. The skills learned in this seminar can be immediately applied to a developer's daily tasks.
For more information on ColdBox Platform Training or to register, please visit the ColdBox Training web site.
