Amcom Technology is chock full of serious Coldfusion and Flex talent. Not the least of which is Jon Messer who has long contributed to the many of the popular CF lists. Jon is starting a new series on building an object oriented application with multiple MVC clients including Flex. The first installment introduces the series and describes modeling business objects. If you are interested in OO application design for Coldfusion, I highly recommend this series as a reference.

I really picked a winner for my first Coldfusion conference. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend every session that I wanted, so I guess I'll have to come back next year! It's really hard to pick a favorite, but the Agile, Coldspring and Coldbox workshops all stand out. Over and above the excellent content and presenters, I got to meet and hang out with some really great folks. I'd start name dropping y'all, but you know who you are... The evening meals had a lot of variety.

Now that I'm on a CF8 hosting plan, I've started leveraging some of that goodness in my applications. The first thing I have implemented is application level mappings to keep my configuration files and components out of the web root. Here's how my current project layout rolls. /project /config Basically, I want to create mappings to config and model. I did a little googlin' and found a nice snippet on Sean Corfield's blog on looping over a list to build the mappings.

I sat in on John Mason's Testing with cfcUnit ColdFusion Meetup presentation a few days ago. Not only did I learn a few new things to help me with unit testing, I found a new ColdFusion host. There were a few things that sold me on FusionLink as a provider. They've been in business longer than I've been a ColdFusion developer, they encourage secure connections for ftp, pop3, smtp, and databases, and they bundle a subversion repository (also under ssl) with the plan.