ALL ABOUT APPLICATION.CFC

• What we'll do
First meeting of the season...thanks for your patience. Going to try to get you some new and great talks this year leading up to the next release of adobe coldfusion. Here is the first:

Still using Application.CFM files? You might be losing out on some easy improvements to your application.
Adobe Connect: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/appcfc/
Application.CFC takes what Application.CFM does and improves upon it greatly. Rather than having the entire file run on every page request (which can be really slow!), you can break the code up so only sections run the first time the app starts up, when a new user longs on, when a new page request starts, when an error is thrown, and much more. Though it’s a CFC file, you don’t even have to know object-oriented programming to take advantage of Application.CFC. In this talk we’ll take a look at a legacy application using Application.CFM and step thru moving the code to an Application.CFC file, discussing the benefits and best practices along the way.

Main takeaways:

Reasons to stop using Application.CFM
Moving to Application.CFC for the first time
Using “this” settings
Commonly used functions: onApplicationStart, onRequestStart, onSessionStart, onError, onMissingTemplate
Other features: onApplicationEnd, onRequestEnd, onSessionEnd
Best Practices
Other resources

Speaker:
Nolan ErckSouth of Shasta Consulting
Owner / Chief Consultant
Nolan Erck has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients. Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.

When he's not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.

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