Sitepro Developers Attend TCCFUG

Jun 15, 2009 1:29 pm by Jon Karna

Last Thursday, a few Sitepro developers attended the Twin Cities Coldfusion User Group at University of St. Thomas. We were introduced to the future of Coldfusion, specifically Coldfusion 9. There was free admission, free food, free shirt, prizes, and an abundance of new Coldfusion features.

We had the pleasure to listen to Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe. Ben discussed the several new features in Coldfusion 9 while showing off their new Coldfusion IDE codenamed “Bolt.”

Spreadsheet Support
By far, the most adored feature coming in Coldfusion 9 would be the tag, which supports Microsoft Excel 2000, 2003, 2007, and even Open Office.

Built in Object Relational Mapping
Here at Sitepro, we already use Hibernate ORM for many of our components. Having Hibernate built right into Coldfusion would speed up development times significantly, not to mention avoiding the strenuous process of getting a java update every time there is the smallest of changes.

Implicit LOCAL scope for variables in functions
Until Coldfusion 9, variables inside of a function would have to include var in the declaration to give it a local scope. We should be specifying the scope regardless, but now we wouldn’t be required to.

Other Notable Features