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Cf.Objective() - Recap Of Day One
By Sean Corfield
Expert Author
Article Date: 2007-05-07
Keynote - Jason - History of CF, themes for Scorpio, a little bit of each theme.
New disclosures: RSS support (<cffeed>), <cfthread>. More to come in sessions over the weekend.
Skipped the next session - spent time with Mark Drew going over Project: Unity, helping him configure support for Transfer ORM.
David Keith - adobe.com - history of the site, infrastructure, architecture. Good explanation of what has worked well (service-based approach) and what needs to be re-architected (monolithic application deployment).
Me - Scorpio/AJAX - the talk seemed to be well-received. Lots of people seemed very excited by just how gosh darn simple Scorpio will make AJAX. I can't post the slides (sorry) so you'll have to watch other people's blogs for reports of what I covered.
Mark Mandel - Advanced Transfer ORM - Covered caching and soft references, observers and the event model, decorators. Transfer really is an impressive piece of software!
Mark Drew - CFEclipse - Started with a lot of introductory material but ramped up. Interesting how so many things are based around the concept of snippets. Introduced Project: Unity - a new plugin that analyses, displays and lets you edit the XML configuration files for any framework. Yes, any framework! How? Mark has built a completely generic, XML-driven parsing engine with several standard "actions". You can now configure CFEcllipse (via this plugin) to discover and render any XML file and provide a context-sensitive editor for it. Extremely impressive! An "alpha" build should be available shortly...
Had dinner with Sami Hoda and his colleagues, along with various Mach II folks. Lots of good discussions about architecture and software design over a fabulous meal (although I had to send the steak back - overcooked!). La Fougasse is amazing (the French / Spanish restaurant at the Sofitel).
Now I'm working on my Real World SOA presentation (again) and struggling with the increasingly serious head cold I seem to have developed in the last couple of days.
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About the Author:
Sean is currently Senior Computer Scientist and Team Lead in the
Hosted Services group at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has worked in
the IT industry for nearly twenty-five years, first in database
systems and compilers (serving eight years on the ANSI C++ Standards
Committee), then in mobile telecoms, and finally in web development.
Sean is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practices,
and is a well-known and respected speaker on these subjects. Sean has
championed and contributed to a number of ColdFusion frameworks, and
is a frequent publisher on his blog, http://corfield.org/
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