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.

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Now that we know what we're working with, we're going to need to sit down and understand how our users will be defined and how they will authenticate with the system.

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Surprise! Yeah, I bet you didn't see that one coming, did you? It's Friday and I didn't want to start getting into the code just before a week-end. What better opportunity, then, to go ahead and announce the details of my new project? For your reading pleasure, I give to you: SQUASH.

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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.

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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.

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I was trying to come up with a nice way to introduce working with Transfer in Coldbox. At first I wanted to have a service layer to control interactions with my objects. With Transfer, however, the relations became a little fuzzy. Take, for example, an event trying to register a new user. When thinking about submitting a registration form, I normally see at least two steps: validation and saving. Trying to imagine the flow of something like this in an application that's trying to be as close to OOP as possible isn't as easy as I thought, though. Here's what I got so far.

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Yesterday, I showed you how to refactor Coldbox, ColdSpring and Transfer on an unconventional server layout. Now that we`ve taken care of that, we can get the three to talk to each other. Luckily, Coldbox makes this extremely easy. (This is also my first post using the afae editor plugin for Eclipse, so bear with me if everything goes wrong (which I don't expect it will).)

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Today I started (gee, that's such a big and meaningful word) work on cwBlog. Since I'll be experimenting with this application, I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out some new (for me) technologies. I've been using Coldbox for a while, but decided it was time to take the plunge and try out some IoC and ORM frameworks (if you're not subscribed to Adobe Edge (you should be! (3rd-level nested text)), here's a great overview article Mark Mandel wrote on some of the most popular frameworks: Adobe Edge: October 2008). After reading the article and careful deliberation (5-10 minutes), I decided on ColdSpring for IoC, and Transfer-ORM for, well, ORM. Before I go into more detail, I just want to say that if it weren't for my unconventional server layout, this entire process would've probably been alot simpler.

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Earlier this week I announced that I was going to start working on cwBlog, my attempt at creating a full-featured blogging application. Reactions to this announcement were divided, but that was to be expected. Although some comments were supportive, others questionned the fact that I was planning on starting from scratch, rather than helping out on existing applications. You see, the reason why I decided to start this project is to see what I can do with what I currently know. See it as an exploration, of sorts. At this point, I don't even know whether I'll be able to finish the project... However, what I do know is that I'm planning on learning every step of the way!

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