Brian Kotek:
Inversion of Control

I'm packing up for my flight up to Minneapolis and am looking forward to seeing everyone and delivering my presentations on OO Design and Open Source Enterprise Java with CF! I also wanted to mention that I'm joining Alagad full time next week, so I'll be representing them and wearing some of their swag at the conference. I will still be contracting at Broadchoice to help them with the Workspace product, but won't be an official employee any longer.

After the conference, I'll find more time to blog, now that the move is over (both to Alagad and into a new house!) It's been a crazy few weeks!

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I'm a few days late with this, but I just wanted to mention that I'll be speaking at this year's cf.Objective() conference. The topic is "OO Modeling and Design", and if the schedule stays as it is, I'll be giving it at 10:15 am on May 14th.

I'm still thinking about exactly what I want to discuss and how I want to go about it, but here is the general idea that I used for my topic's abstract:

Object-oriented programming is quickly becoming the norm among ColdFusion developers. Unfortunately, OO can be hard to wrap one's head around, and confusion is rampant.

Join Brian Kotek as he explores OO modeling and design. Topics will include:

• The basics of UML and class diagrams
• Thinking about the model
• Design principles
• Indicators of design quality
• Theory meets real life

OO is widely understood to deliver the biggest benefit for complex applications that leverage large, behavior-rich domain models. One area that Brian wants to consider is the role of OO techniques applied to "normal" ColdFusion applications. Since many CF apps are "data-centric", what advantages (if any) are gained from adopting OOP for that kind of application? Come to this session to gain a foundation in OO modeling and add your voice to the discussion.

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Last Friday I gave a presentation to the Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group. It covered a range of topics: MXUnit, ColdMock, and elements of my RIAForge FormUtilities and ColdSpring Bean Utilities projects.

The presentation went well, I think. There are a few technical issues towards the end when they were trying to set up a microphone to get a Q&A going, but they are minor. I've linked to the files and the recording below in case anyone is interested in having a look. Thanks again to Sami, Luis, and the IECFUG for allowing me to present!

• PowerPoint presentation and associated code examples
• Connect recording

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