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Presented at CF United Express in NYC today
Published: 04/20/2009 - Peter Bell

Here is my deck from the presentation today at CF United Express over at Pace University in NYC.

The presentation focused on getting started with template based (Model to Text) code generation in CFML using my CF Template project which allows you to "use CFML to generate CFML".

I also spent some time looking at the importance of active (as opposed to passive, one time) code generation, the benefits of explicit metadata over (say) using DDLs to generate scaffolding. I also looked at various ways to represent your metadata (DSLs) - from csv's, XML and little languages to databases and visual based modeling tools, and showed some real world examples of the DSLs I use to generate applications at SystemsForge.

Thanks to Liz, Nafisa, Elliot and Cara for putting the event together. Can't wait for August. With a campus based setting I have the feeling that CF United is going to be particularly good this year . . .

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