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adding a field to a Mach II form

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Ok, since I have to get caught up once and for all, I started tinkering with the contact manager sample app of Dave Shuck's. My coworker, Brandon, had added a little to it, so I started tinkering with that version. So, I was challenged to add a field to the contact side of it. (Currently, there are users, and contacts) After about an hour's worth of work, (mainly just getting a better feel for how things run) I added it. It updates, etc. Mach II is far easier to troubleshoot than your standard proecedural code, that's for damned sure. I've spent hours digging around going thru includes and crap trying to nail down that one URL that didn't have the DSN in it. So far, so good. Since I plan on going hardcore MachII over the next few weeks, I'll probably be blogging mainly about my experiences. Here goes nothin'.

beans, daos, gateways and services.

Sat, 17 May 2008 16:14:00 GMT

so, this weekend is the time I've chosen to play around with a User manager app that Mr. Shuck built. Mainly cuz we're starting to apply more and more of these concepts at work. SO. Here goes nothin'. Time to setup MySQL on my laptop.

well, that wasn't painful...

Thu, 03 May 2007 03:55:37 GMT

ok, so I've moved over my queries to a CFC. Not that hard.
WAY WAY WAY more readable to me. Like I've said before, my action pages can get all FUGLY real quick-like.

While my component's still kinda wee small, I'm proud of the sucker. Now, time to really start throwing stuff into it!

*gets wrench out*

Getting there...

Wed, 02 May 2007 14:13:12 GMT

Pretty much have my cfc built. Just doing the usual dump debugging stuff to make sure it's doing what it should be doing.

My gosh, to reiterate: It's NICE to be able to read my code a tad easier without wondering what the hell this CFIF does, etc.

cfc's are fun.

Wed, 02 May 2007 01:16:04 GMT

Ok, so I'm in the process now of moving all my sql querying stuff to one basic CFC for the site.

On the website, I'm using your typical javascript RTE, so I'm going to move the querying stuff for that into the CFC, as well.

If nothing else, CFC's make reading code a tad easier. My god, my action pages can get ugly as all get out.

My plan is to have one, maybe two CFC's for the entire site. (whatever winds up making more sense; I'm reading up on CFC's now in the Forta/CF web app book)

Plenty more to follow...

Current project: Podcast website's blogging capabilities

Tue, 01 May 2007 21:23:33 GMT

Ok, so I do a music based podcast with my buddy Jon. The website (the Best music show) is hosted on a CF friendly server. I *was* running Ray Camden's blogging software, but I came to the point that I felt like it was kind of overkill for what we wanted, and I really wanted to know what the website's design was in and out. (meaning, I wanted to do it myself, however ugly and kludgy it may be)

SO...I started out simply, with blog entries and comments. I'm building on it as I go.
My first immediate goal is to move all the SQL related stuff on my action page to a CFC.

Secondly, I'm wanting to add more Ajaxy UI elements to the front page that will expand, animate, etc based on content. (I.e., put a more openable div to show albums we discussed with more info than we have currently)

Thirdly, I'd like email updating going on.

Lastly, for now anwyay, the security needs to be far more robust than I have now.

Here goes nothin'!

ColdFusion 8 "Scorpio" from a newbie

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:51:01 GMT

So I got to see Mr. Forta in person for the first time, and I have to admit. I'm TOTALLY energized for Coldfusion in general.

My gosh. The man knows how to sell it.

(not to mention everything being added to the new CF version. I MUST find a copy somewhere!)

I'm planning on using this space to blog as a CF newbie, so don't expect earth shatteringly new ways of programming; I'm just posting here as I learn better ways of coding stuff.