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CFUG ChampionsA conversation with Steve Rittler, Manager of the Philadelphia area CFUG and Philadelphia area MMUG

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:51:11 EDT

Hello to everyone in the ColdFusion community. In this column, I’d like to spotlight User Group managers, Team Macromedia volunteers, community leaders, and other enthusiasts who champion ColdFusion and related technologies. These are people like many of you who spend hours – and even days – a week giving back to the ColdFusion and Macromedia communities. Today I’m speaking with Steve Rittler, manager of the Philadelphia area CFUG and founder of the new Philadelphia area MMUG.

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Creational Patterns

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:41:01 EDT

With the recent introduction of ColdFusion MX 6.1, developers continue to explore the new features and improvements ColdFusion has to offer. What you may discover, as I have, is that we have hardly scratched the surface of what is possible with ColdFusion Components (CFCs).

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Singleton Pattern

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

With the introduction of ColdFusion Components, or CFCs, in ColdFusion MX, we as ColdFusion developers have a way to leverage object-oriented programming, or OOP, within CFML.

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Composite Pattern

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:00:00 EDT

As ColdFusion developers, we tend to build applications based on pages that display information and queries to retrieve information and save information. We tend to think solely of how we are going to implement the code required to perform a certain function. Many times we are not able to consider the commonality of a certain problem and whether an already established design exists somewhere.

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Strategy Pattern - Part 3 of a Series

Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

For the past couple of issues we have been getting to know how other languages use object-oriented design patterns and how those patterns can be implemented in ColdFusion MX. We jumped right into the Template Method and Iterator patterns and this month we will explore the Strategy pattern.

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Iterator Pattern PART 2

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:00:00 EST

Last month I introduced design patterns, including the Template Method pattern and how it encourages polymorphism and helps remove the common switch-case constructs we normally utilize in custom tags for purposes of code reuse. This month our topic is the Iterator pattern, a simple yet powerful design pattern you can use to generically traverse through a custom collection CFC. You'll need to know what a collection is and exactly where the Iterator pattern comes into the picture.

Design Patterns in ColdFusion: Template Method Pattern

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:00:00 EST

ColdFusion has always been an interesting Rapid Application Development tool but never a language taken completely seriously by object-oriented programmers because of its purely structural nature. C++ and Java CFX tags, and the somewhat unreliable nature of , kept many advanced programming concepts unreachable by the average CF5 developer. With the release of ColdFusion MX, Macromedia simplified the use of Java from within ColdFusion. Additionally, the language itself has been extended to include a Java class-like construct known as ColdFusion Components (CFCs).