Objective Bias

Last week at the Boston CFUG meeting, we had an "open mic" night where CFUG members went up and gave short presentations in front of the group. I decided to follow up the talk that Luis Majano gave on the ColdBox framework back in July and give an intro on ColdBox plugins. I had some technical problems with my Winblows laptop early on, but Brian Rinaldi graciously let me borrow his laptop for my presentation. It was fun to present and it went well overall. But due to time constraints, I didn't get a chance to go over the code of the custom plugin that I demoed, so I decided to do it here on my blog. (Besides, it's been getting stale around here).

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In a previous post, I commented on how I discovered that using slash-delimited component paths worked in the CreateObject() function. In the comments to that post, the general sentiment was that use of this "undocumented feature" should be avoided, as it may lead to unexpected behaviors. I kind of figured that already and make it a point to stick to using dot-delimited paths.What brought this to my attention in the first place was the following example code in the Coldbox Framework Documentation

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I'm a big fan of the ColdBox framework. I think the core MVC part of the framework is very intuitive and easy to get started with (the loads of documentation also doesn't hurt). And then as you get more comfortable with it and want to implement more advanced techniques, you can take advantage of the vast array of tools and extension capabilities that it provides, which is why (as Luis Majano frequently points out) it's more than just a framework, but a also a software development toolbox.

Be that as it may, I believe it's always helpful to look at different frameworks and methodologies for ideas and inspiration. The other day, I was checking out the ColdFusion on Wheels site.

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