ColdFusion on Wheels ORM and Why It's Mo' Betta

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 — 4:30 pm MT

Location

Salt Lake City, Utah

Presenter

Abstract

Learn how the ORM in ColdFusion on Wheels helps you speed up your development and keep your code nice and tidy. Chris Peters will give a tour of the "model layer" of the Wheels MVC framework. His goal is to leave you thinking, "Wow, I really need to try that out!"

(P.S. The presentation title was a special collaboration between Chris Peters and David McGuigan. This title comes "as is" without warranty of any kind.)

Topics:

Wheels's approach to ORM
The CRUD lifecycle
Business rule validation
Adding code to respond to events
Associating tables in plain English
Super-readable dynamic methods
Magic tricks

About the Presenter

Chris Peters is the biggest fan of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework. He has been developing CFML applications since the ColdFusion MX days and hasn't found a better way. Chris leads the Wheels evangelism team, builds and maintains the framework's website at cfwheels.org, and is developing an open source portal framework on top of Wheels called Administrivia.

Location Details

Salt Lake City CFUG