Brendan O'Hara

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... (more)

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). Intro... (more)

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. Sometimes it is necessary in object-oriented programming to ensure that there is always one, but never ... (more)

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 no... (more)

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 Strateg... (more)

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 simp... (more)

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 ... (more)