Nashville CFUG – Mark Mandel and Transfer ORM – Live Via Connect!
DATE: July 31, 2008
TIME: 6:00 PM Food — 6:30 PM Presentation
LOCATION: Dealerskins (404 BNA Dr. Nashville, TN 37217)
Special thanks to Dealerskins and eChurchOnline for providing the meeting space and the pizza.
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PRESENTATION:
Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM
When developing an Object Oriented web based application, it is normal to have a database with relational tables and a series of objects that represent that data. Often, the amount of time and effort it takes to manually map these objects back and forth from a database is large, and can be very costly. Object Relational Mappers (ORM) were developed to cut down the amount of time this process takes, and automate the translation between a relational database and an Object Oriented system. Transfer ORM’s main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application. Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database. This presentation will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, the use case for using one within web application development, as well as taking a code centric, step by step view of how to install, configure and use the basic functionality of Transfer ORM.
** All attendees must RSVP by sending an e-mail to rsvp AT ncfug DOT com. **
SPEAKER BIO:
Mark Mandel is the author of several open source projects, most notably Transfer ORM and JavaLoader and has been has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90′s. Mark can often be found blogging and consulting at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion, Java and various other aspects of software development for several years. He can also be found as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network. When he’s not too busy writing open source software and consulting he enjoys spending his extra time getting beaten up, training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.
ACROBAT CONNECT INFORMATION:
This meeting will be broadcast via Acrobat Connect.
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