Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

On Falling Behind...

2009-09-10T17:42:00-05:00

This blog post began as a simple comment to Ray's blog post "Are We Falling Behind", but darn him, he moved me such that it turned into multiple paragraphs!

So, here's the commentary that the afore mentioned post and the thoughts of all its commenters evoked fro

My Twelve Steps to a Coldbox App

2009-06-11T10:58:00-05:00

Yesterday I had the privilege of providing my first consultation job as an instructor on the subject of Coldbox. The team that hired me are at the stage in their project where they're ready to start writing code (database is designed, UML and usecase diagrams are complete, mockups have been created), and they wanted to "experience" my thought processes, the questions I ask myself, my approaches to implem

Presented My First Talk on ColdBox Tonight!

2009-02-04T00:41:52-05:00

In case anybody wanted to attend but was unable, I just wanted to make it known that I did present at the Alamo Area ColdFusion Usergroup meeting tonight on the topic of the ColdBox framework. I was given 45 minutes, and finished precisely within my time limits, except for a few questions at the end that I had to field.

A link to the recorded presentation can be found at UG TV ( The Scenario: My Coldbox/Coldspring/Transfer application has settings that I want to make maintainable via a user interface. Now, the Coldbox.xml.cfm file does make provision for me to add as many custom settings as I want to my app, but I don't want to require the end user to know how to edit this xml file (nor would I trust them to). I came up with a solution to this challenge that I'm really hap

Coldbox Interceptors and Custom Interception Points Demystified

2008-12-07T02:32:28-05:00

Although ANYTHING you could ever want to know about coldbox is definitely in its documentation, I find that it is still necessary sometimes to have to piece things together bit by bit..."...line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:...." as the prophet Isaiah said... in order to fully comprehend them. In this post I'd like to share what I have distilled from the docs regarding the subject of usi

Basic Security in Coldbox using Transfer and Coldspring - Part II (of II)

2008-11-09T01:58:00-05:00

In the first post on this subject, I shared my 10,000 foot view of what pieces needed to go where in a Coldbox app in order to implement security. A lot of the code in that post was probably unfamiliar looking to many people (I know it would have been to me a couple of days ago!). So in this post I want to sh

Basic Security in Coldbox using Transfer and Coldspring - Part I

2008-11-09T00:30:00-05:00

There's no denying it: the plethora of documentation and examples that exist for the Coldbox framework is invaluable and undoubtedly covers every possible scenario to one degree or another. As I press on into a project where the use of Coldbox, Coldspring, and Transfer has been mandated to me, I'm finding that, despite the documentation and tutorials, I'm still having to search around and piece together for myself some of the in

Basic Security in Fusebox 5.5.x (sans XML)

2008-07-03T13:51:00-05:00

I have recently begun a project using the latest version of Fusebox (5.5.1). This is my second forray into Fusebox 5x, but the first one wasn't much more than a hello world for my own benefit. This time, I'm taking the "sans XML" approach and using FB in its MVC arrangement to build an application that is primarily a data management tool utilizing Java proxies exclusively as its means to communicate with a backend Oracle

Why I Hate ORMs (a solicited rant)

2008-05-01T11:54:00-05:00

A necessary disclaimer...
Everything in the following post that appears to be an opinion most likely is and should be taken as such. My personal view on a topic does not (necessarily) invalidate any other opposing view. Readers should ascribe whatever value they so choose to the information that follows and either adopt it or reject it at their own discretion.

In the comment threa

Snippet: Outputting Reactor Validation Structures

2007-09-12T13:23:02-05:00

Reactor's built-in validation produces a validationError structure when it encounters something amiss, and passes it back to your viewstate. That structure is actually a structure of arrays.

I DO use Reactor's validation, and found myself copying and pasting the same snippet for outputting the validation error results a time or two this morning... figured it might come in handy for other folks, too.

Reactor: A LOT Like a Wendys Drive Through

2007-09-12T12:29:00-05:00

Okay, I've been up since 3 A.M (went to bed waaay too early last night) working on a Modelglue project, and now I'm feeling the need to rant a little bit. Not complain, per se, because I truly do appreciate the blood, sweat, and tears that must have gone into creating the frameworks that comprise Unity; But out of the 4 hours I "worked", a full third of it was spent on issues related to trying to get my app to "see&q

ModelGlue Development Cheat Sheet

2007-09-07T12:14:00-05:00

When my team and I first began building our Model-Glue:Unity application, we experienced a GREAT deal of head scratching and frustration during the development process. We would alter a line here or there, refresh our browser, and NOT see the change. It took us quite some time to finally figure out what kind of action was warranted for what kind of change in order to make it manifest, so we documented it for ourselves in our local

The Model-Glue Event Lifecycle in Layman's Terms

2007-08-29T01:04:00-05:00

Okay, actually there's no way to COMPLETELY distill this topic down to the point where you don't have to have a decent understanding of web development to grasp it. BUT, I do believe that I've been able to demystify the subject sufficient to allow even the beginner OOP/Model-Glue developer to "get it", which is what I wish I would have had a year ago when I left the comforts of procedural and embarked on m

Custom Validation with Generic Commit: a Model-Glue Case Study

2007-05-25T01:30:00-05:00

Someone recently asked about how to specifically ensure that a submitted email address is unique when using a model-glue generic commit, so I thought I'd share an example since I recently had to do that very thing.

I'm assuming for the remainder of this post that the reader is already familiar with Model-Glue in a practical sense, and at least knows of the existence of Reactor's automagic validation. Still,

Using Ajax with Model-Glue - it's really quite simple

2007-03-19T23:34:00-05:00

At first glance, the topic can seem somewhat overwhelming. The key, however, is to understand each of them separately and then using them together won't seem overwhelming in the least. I'll touch briefly on each of them independently, but will assume for the bulk of this post that you have at least an elementary understanding of what each is and generally how they work.

Ajax refers

Coldspring Automagic Lesson

2007-03-05T00:00:00-05:00

Okay, I spent the greater part of today at work wrestling with a situation involving the injection of objects into other objects using Coldspring. After far too many hours of experimentation, furrowed brow, taking up my teammate's time, and frustration, I came to some conclusions. I can't explain the "WHY's" of the conclusions, but i can definately validate the conclusions themselves by my results.

Dynamic Data Stores: A Model-Glue/OO Case Study

2007-03-02T16:35:00-05:00

The scenario is that my team and I are building an app that must be able to seamlessly communicate between multiple datastores; one local, and the remainder remote and accessible via web service calls. In order to accommodate this, I've created a DataStoreAdapter component that has an instance of each of the specific data store interface components injected into it by Coldspring.

The challenge here

Just What IS a 'Service Layer', Anyway?

2007-02-21T06:15:00-05:00

(Consider hiring Doug to instruct you and your team in the ways of OO!)

I've been hearing the term 'Service Layer' everywhere for at least the past year and a half, as I'm sure most of my peers have as well. Whether it's seen in blog posts, heard during casual conversation at conferences, found in articles, or woven throughou

CFUNITED - Coldspring and AOP made simple

2006-06-30T13:29:00-05:00

If you've been anywhere near a blog or even another CF developer lately, it's quite likely you've at least heard of Coldspring, and you may even be aware that it is a 'framework'. In an informative session entitled 'Inversion of Control and Coldfusion: Using Coldspring', speaker Dave Ross succeeded in conveying a good basic understanding of what Coldspring does and why you should consider it as part of your app

CFUNITED - The Frameworks Debate Continues

2006-06-29T12:23:00-05:00

Most of you may be aware of the debate over frameworks that has been raging off and on since at least CFObjective back in March of this year. In the one corner, representing all that is opposed to the preaching of frameworks to the masses is Simon Horwith. In the other corner, representing framework evangelists and followers from all over the globe is Hal Helms.

I first became aware of this schism a