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I've been playing around with the Transfer ORM for the last few hours and I've still got a long way to go. I actually had a bit of a problem installing it, I basically ended up having to set up a ColdFusion mapping for it, which is no good as I don't have that option with my hosting company. Who knows, maybe it will magically fix itself (read:I'll know enough about it to set it up correctly) by the time I get to pushing something "live".

 

In any case, keep checking CFHow.com for more ColdFusion antics.

ColdFusion allows the developer to decide how they want to program. By this, I mean that the language allows users a lot of flexibility. The subject of this article deals with the issue of Duck Typing as it applies to ColdFusion. There are both advantages and disadvantages of this approach. You can find out more about it here: Duck Typing in ColdFusion on CFHow.com

I just wanted to share some other ColdFusion bloggers with you, reading these blogs is a fantastic way of keeping abreast of new ColdFusion developments:

 

Ray Camden

Ben Forta

Rahul Narula

 

And of course you can always find more ColdFusion tips, tricks and solutions at CFHow.com

Like most programming languages, ColdFusion lets you create your own functions. User defined functions or UDFs for short can be used anywhere on the page where they are located as if they were any other built in ColdFusion function. If you need to use a ColdFusion function on more than one page, consider keeping it in a component or an include file. Technically you could also keep it in the Application File and then you’d be able to access it from any of the applicable pages, but that can turn out really terrible, click here for the why.

In any event, user defined functions add a level of modularity to your programming which really adds to the scalability and manageability of your projects. In this article we’ll go ahead and create a really basic function for formatting a datetime object. Something like this can really come in handy on any sort of big report where might need to format a date time object in the same way in different places. Doing this in a UDF not only makes your code a little easier to read, but also makes modifications a lot simpler.

View the rest of the article on ColdFusion User Defined Functions CFHow.com!

ColdFusion is a server-side programming language like PHP or ASP. ColdFusion has grown tremendously over the last few years to provide services such as PDF conversion, Flash interaction, Web Services, GUI widgets, XML and just about everything in between. ColdFusion can be seen in action on such websites as MySpage.com, Symantic, Casio, and VeriSign . The .cfm page extension is a tell-tale sign. Click here to view the rest of the article on CFHow.com, In the full article we'll be going over exactly what ColdFusion is, and isn't as well as provide a brief history of how the language evolved..