The "Behind-the-scenes" of SQUASH's Authentication
Yesterday we looked at how to setup a login form and process the information with ColdBox. Today we'll go a step further by viewing the code behind the authentication model.
Using Coldspring With ColdBox
So what does Coldspring do, anyways? We know by now that it's an Inversion of Control (IoC) framework. We also know that it helps us manage dependencies between objets. And yet, we're not quite sure what that means exactly yet. To help demonstrate the power of Coldspring, I've prepared a simple example.
Getting Our Project Started
Last week we were talking about using ColdBox and Coldspring to run our project. Let's take a look at how we actually make this happen.
New project: additional details are leaked
Two days ago I had announced that I'd started work on a new project that I'd been wanting to work on for a while. Rather than spill out all the details in one post, I thought it'd be better (and funnier) to stretch it out a little.
Jason Dean's Coldbox Series
I've been stuck reinstalling Eclipse and friends (read plugins) for the last hour or so, so I figured I might as well read up on my backblogs (you never know, that word just might stick). If you haven't seen it, Jason's been writing up a really neat series on Coldbox and Coldspring. He's taking a different approach than I am, which is great since you get to have different point of views.
Yeah, yeah, I forgot the links. They're in now.
Understanding the Difference Between Coldspring and Transfer Objects
Recently I've been hard at work trying to understand the core principles of OO programming in ColdFusion. Last week Ben Nadel shared his experiences at a week-long course devoted to OOP with Hal Helms (the summary, which can be found here, also has links to his daily briefs). His posts opened my eyes to a couple of concepts that are now new to me, and since I'm on a new project I thought it'd be a great opportunity to try them out. As you know from my previous posts, I'm also trying to implement IoC (Coldspring) and ORM (Transfer-ORM) frameworks into my project, so figuring out where these two stand in relation to what I think I now know about OOP is my next challenge.
