CF.Objective() Preview: Mark Mandel, "Developing Applicatons With Transfer ORM"

This will be one of a series of "preview" sessions for the CFObjective conference (http://www.cfobjectiv.... The Acrobat Connect meeting URL will be: http://experts.acroba.... RSVPs are preferred but not necessary.

Mark Mandel on "Developing Applicatons 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 will be a 20-minute preview (plus Q&A time) of his CFObjective presentation, which will outline the basics of what an Object Relational Mapper is, and give a very high level overview of the core functionality of Transfer.

Bio:

Mark Mandel is a Senior Developer at NGA.net and has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90's. More recently he has become very active within the ColdFusion open source community, authoring several projects, including Transfer ORM and JavaLoader.

Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion for the past few years, 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 coding 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.