QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
Wow! I cannot believe it has been 14 months since I last posted about Transfer. One would think that this was a result of me not using Transfer, which is actually not the case. I've been using it for nearly a year-and-a-half now, but I've been so busy with other things that I just haven't found the time to really dig into it the way that I want (need?) to. Well, diggin' time has arrived.
I've been talking with Mark Mandel for quite some time now, and he is largely responsible for my brain moving from a procedural mindset to an object oriented mindset. God knows that I've asked him a bazillion questions over time, and he's always had the right answer for me (even when that answer has been "RTFM!"). I'll never be able to express my gratitude to him in helping me learn how to become a programmer as opposed to a code writer. (By the way, I am by no means suggesting that I am a programmer - far from it - but I'm moving in that direction.)
When Mark first mentioned Transfer to me, I had no idea what an ORM was. But what he explained to me sounded really cool. It made no sense, but my interest was piqued, because I knew that it was something that would make my life easier and better. Easier? Better? Holy cow! Those two words don't even begin to describe its benefits!
