Migrating from ColdFusion to Railo to Lucee 2 Mar 2015 Having recently moved to Railo from ColdFusion 9, switching to Lucee has proved mercifully straightforward, despite continuing issues with ORM.
Migrating from ColdFusion to Railo Part 6: More ORM issues 15 Dec 2014 Further notes on issues and workarounds when migrating apps from Adobe ColdFusion 9 to Railo 4.2.
Fixing a strange Ehcache issue in CF9 2 Sep 2014 How to fix the "net.sf.ehcache.CacheException: error setting options" issue in ColdFusion 9.
ColdFusion ORM quirks: removing one-to-many children 8 Aug 2014 Removing individual one-to-many child objects from a parent ORM entity is straightforward. But if you want to remove several or all at once, things are a bit trickier.
ColdFusion ORM quirks: ordering one-to-many children via a link table 1 Nov 2013 First in a series on minor aspects of CF ORM which have tripped me up.
Saving IP addresses as integers with ColdFusion ORM and MySQL 2 Apr 2013 Storing IP addresses as integers is easy with direct MySQL statements, but how to do it via ORM?
ORM related entities in different databases 22 Feb 2012 CF9.0.1 supports ORM entities with different data sources, but not relationships between them apparently. Here's a workaround.
ColdFusion ORM by John Whish 12 Oct 2011 Review of "ColdFusion ORM: A guide to developing applications using ColdFusion ORM" by John Whish.
The simplicity of jQuery style generic getters and setters in ColdFusion Part 3 25 May 2011 Final post on making generic getters and setters in ColdFusion work like jQuery: further refinements - bulk setting and ensuring NULLs for ORM.
HQL SELECT clauses: watch out for whitespace characters 18 May 2011 In ACF ORM, HQL SELECT clauses containing tabs or new line characters will cause an exception.
Using <cfproperty> to create default CFC property values 16 May 2011 How to set default component property values using CFPROPERTY without enabling ORM.
The simplicity and complexity of ORM 11 May 2011 Does Object Relational Mapping add simplicity or complexity? A newbie's perspective.