Advanced ColdFusion Custom Tags With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)
Posted August 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM
The following video and slide show is my presentation: Advanced ColdFusion Custom Tags. While the slide show covers the entire breadth of ColdFusion custom tags, from the basics to the advanced, the video demonstrates only the advanced aspects covered in my CFUNITED version of the presentation. Custom tags are the unsung heroes of the ColdFusion world and I hope that in this presentation I can demonstrate the ways in which they can be used to create more natural, more elegant, and ultimately more powerful solutions to your everyday business problems.
In the presentation, I keep bringing up ColdFusion components because it has been my observation that in the community at large, it is believed that ColdFusion components are a replacement for the "outdated" usage of Custom Tags. What I want to get across to you is that these are not competing technologies in any way; and, in fact, ColdFusion components and custom tags can work together, synergistically, to create best-of-breed solutions.
Click here to download the presentation slides and the code demonstrations.
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NOTE: I recorded the video at a very large dimension - my apologies for the scrolling.
On a personal note, this my first presentation given at a conference, so a big thanks to everyone who encouraged me and gave me excellent feedback (especially you Simon Free).
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Reader Comments
Thanks Ben for posting your preso, I agree that alot of people don't appreciate how useful and relevant custom tags can still be in this crazy grande cfc with oo icing thanks world :P
The best example of advanced tag use in the wild I have seen would have to be Mango Blog with it's custom tag templating and event system. Complex and very cool stuff.
Later, Jo.
@Joanna,
No problem. And thanks for the Mango Blog tip, I'll have to take a look at what their doing.
Thanks for putting this out there. I haven't done much with custom tags for the last few years but they are still useful and pretty great for portability reasons!
@Andy,
Glad you like it my man. Custom tags are very powerful things.
