Dennis hails from Australia but has spent the last 12 years in Charlotte, North Carolina working as a software engineer for Carolinas Healthcare System, the third-largest non-profit healthcare system in the United States. Most of his work there has involved using ColdFusion to construct Web application back-ends and integrate them with a variety of enterprise clinical and administrative systems. Dennis gets most of his open-source kicks as an active contributor to the Model-Glue framework, but he also contributes to other open-source CFML projects such as ColdSpring and Validat (a validation framework from Alagad, Inc).

Dennis' Sessions

MVC for the Rest of Us

 The Model-View-Controller pattern (MVC) is one of the most widely advocated patterns for developing Web applications, and there are a number of quality MVC frameworks for CFML available today. However the adoption of MVC within the CFML developer community seems quite low compared to the developer communities of alternative platforms.

This presentation will cover the high-level benefits of MVC for CF developers, some key concepts of MVC as it is often implemented in CFML, and some simple techniques to show how both back-end coders and front-end designers can quickly benefit from MVC. Many of the presented ideas will also be demonstrated through a simple example application written in Model-Glue, a popular MVC framework for CFML.

About NCDevCon

NCDevCon, a free conference held May 22-23, 2010,  presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.
Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at NCDevCon.