UPDATE: This web-site will be moved from GrupoW servers to CrystalTech this weekend. Expect some downtime, but not much.

I've left the partnership at GrupoW in December, 2007. So I'm now trying to put everything on my personal life together, as I spent so many time working on the company progress and so little taking care of myself.

One of the things I want to do is to learn the right way to do CFML in ColdFusion 8 (love the simplicity of the name). When working with GrupoW, I had a lot of legacy code from CF5 and CFMX6.1 to deal with - they could be brought to ColdFusion 8 and work, but they would not take advantage of the new features.

So, as I'm flying alone now, while I'm still putting things together on personal level, I'll try to upgrade my CF knowledge to take full advantage of CF8. But then it comes to learn a lot of OOP, which I really didn't get from all this years of development. Like Ben Nadel I'll have to work my way through the OOP world.

And then it all comes to a career change. I'm not sure what I'll do after this "sabbatical break" mixed with vacation, studies and reflection, but I'm sure as hell that I need to learn a lot.

So if you're reading this and can point to some resources for getting OOP the right way and CF8 too, I'll thank you. Please don't recommend blogs in general, as I read a lot - more than 200, majority technical and CF - of then. But pointers to specific blog posts are welcome.

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3 comments at the moment:

The only real option is reading and experimenting. Read as much as you can: Design Patterns Explained, Head First OO Analysis and Design, etc.
by:  Brian @ 01-Feb-2008 15:46:00  


Hi Fernando,
I leave here my 2 cents:

1) Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321127420

2) Develop any apllication using frameworks. My suggestion is ColdBox + Transfer.

You will see a lot of good coding staff

3) Register in the list cfcdev
by:  Ronan Lucio @ 04-Feb-2008 10:43:00  


Brian and Ronan,

Thank you very much. I'll be experimenting within the next weeks/months and reporting here. I'll be glad if you could weight in with comments.

Best regards!
by:  Fernando S. Trevisan - http://fernandotrevisan.com.br/ @ 08-Feb-2008 02:57:00  

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