I am a web developer, born in PERU
and now living in PDX.
My platform of choice is CFML
but I'm always open to learn anything. I currently work for Mentor Graphics.
I also do freelance web development and have a few open source projects that I maintain.
Update to 'Core' Framework. Now in GitHub!
A while ago I shared a small framework I created which I use to develop pretty much all of my projects (both open source and paid engagements). The framework, as is usual for web frameworks, follows the MVC and Front Controller patterns; also like Sean Corfield's FW/1 and Barney's FB3 (more)
A Peek Inside the Software Factory: Core Framework
*** THIS IS A REPOST OF AN EARLIER ARTICLE THAT GOT WIPED OUT ON A RECENT DB CRASH. *** If you ever wanted to modify ColdBricks or BugLog, but didn't understood how these application were constructed; or if you just want to see yet another way of developing CF applications, (more)
A Rant on Frameworks, Libraries, and Shells
We spend ridiculous amount of time discussing the merits (or lack of) of the different MVC frameworks in ColdFusion, and we keep doing it again and again. Well, at least everyone should agree that when it comes time to decide how to go from one page to another we got (more)
Using Polymorphism and Inheritance to Build a Switchable Data Access Layer
One thing I don't like when starting on a new application is having to go through the process of setting up and configuring the database before I can get anything even running at all. So, for a couple of projects I'm working on I thought about reading and writing data (more)
The Concept of an Application Services Layer
I want to discuss a concept that I have been using for a while but have not been able to find it discussed on books or blogs I've read. I am talking about a formal layer of the application architecture that, for lack of any better name, I call "Application (more)