Objective Bias

A while back, I posted instructions on how to integrate a ColdBox application into a Mura CMS site. Basically, you edit a few files make some configuration changes which allow you to include the ColdBox front controller index.cfm into a Mura page using the [mura] tag. What I didn't make clear is, once you have the home page of the ColdBox app showing up on your page, how do you navigate into other pages (or events) of your ColdBox app? I was recently asked this question by someone who read the original blog post so I thought I'd write this as a follow up.

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My last blog post was mainly about how valuable conferences can be for networking and socializing with other developers. I had promised myself to attend one of the "big two" conferences next year (CFUnited or CFObjective). Well, we all know what happened to CFUnited since my last blog post (wow – has it been that long?). In the aftermath of the "death" of CFUnited, many people in the community have pointed to the state of the economy and companies have had to cut back on their conference budgets. With airfare, hotel and registration fees, one can easily spend up to $2000 attending one of these conferences (as a freelancer who has to pay his own way, that has been one of the reasons I have yet to attend). Another aspect of this discussion has the rise of smaller, shorter, regional conferences, such as NCDevCon, D2W, BFusion/BFlex, and RIA Unleashed. These low-cost (sometimes free) conferences can be a great value because many of them also include hands-on training workshops in addition to the standard sessions.

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Given the title of this post, I admit that the timing is a bit off, but I’ve had this post "in the can" for a while and felt like I needed to get this out.
Due to budget and time constraints (yet again), I actually wasn’t able to attend CFObjective() this year. However, I was able to manage flying out to Minneapolis for the "Programmers Guide to Mura CMS" pre-conference training put on by Blue River Interactive.

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Below is a screenshot of my Railo Development server showing the change log for the latest development release (version 3.1.2.011).

Take special note of the last 3 tickets. That's right -- you can now write properties, components, and interfaces in full cfscript with the latest development release of Railo. Thanks to Sean Corfield for pointing my attention to this. Enjoy!

I recently had a chance to listen to the latest edition of the This Week in ColdFusion Podcast wherein design patterns are discussed. One of the design patterns that Brian Carr talks about in the podcast is the Decorator Pattern. As an example, Brian describes how you can use the dynamic nature of ColdFusion to assign a function to a variable and then add that function to an object at runtime (this is also known as "method injection"). Bob Silverberg, who was a guest on the podcast then asked Brian whether the injected method would show up in the object's metadata if you called the getMetaData() function on it. Brian didn't know for sure, but he and Bob agreed that it was unlikely. This piqued my curiosity, so I set about to test this myself.

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