Jeff Chastain has been developing software applications using object-oriented programming for over 12 years and has been developing Web applications in ColdFusion for over 8 years. He has experience in a variety of industries, from Fortune 500 companies to his own consulting practice. Currently, Jeff is an applications architect and systems developer for Alagad, Inc., and contributes to the blog at http://www.doughughes.net.
Now that Scorpio is here (at least in beta), it is time to start figuring out
all the new tricks of the trade, right? However, as most of your clients will
not be switching immediately, you will still have to be doing ColdFusion 7
work for some time.
How do you run both ColdFusion 7 to support your current clients and
ColdFusion 8 to keep your development skills sharp? You could run one using
the built-in Web server, but that's not really the same as your production
systems. Instead, let's take a look at using the multiserver configuration
option to run both CF7 and CF8 instance... (more)
Many times object-oriented programming (OOP) is billed as the end-all
solution to cure the spaghetti code that can come from procedural style
applications. After all, you just have to stuff your logic code into a
component (big OOP buzzword - encapsulation), and now your code is instantly
better, right? How hard is it to stick a createObject function call or a
tag in when you ... (more)
Jeff Chastain has been developing software applications using object-oriented programming for over 12 years and has been developing Web applications in ColdFusion for over 8 years. He has experience in a variety of industries, from Fortune 500 companies to his own consulting practice. Currently, Jeff is an applications architect and systems developer for Alagad, Inc., and contributes to the blog at http://www.doughughes.net.
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