zurielbarron.com

My main project since joining the Worship House Media team in October has been working as the lead developer on the redesign and development of the new WorshipHouseMedia.com.

I am very happy to announce that the main development effort has been finalized and we have launched the new site (with a beta tag). Worshiphouse 2.0 was developed in Coldfusion using a couple of great frameworks called Model-Glue (MVC) and Transfer ORM.

I have to admit that before joining Worship House I was a little worried about working with Coldfusion, but I have been pleasantly surprised to find that the Coldfusion community is making great strides in trying to modernize the platform with current development practices. Having great experience in both Java and .Net, I found the transition to be very smooth. I was up and running full force in a couple of weeks building Controllers and Views with Model-Glue and persisting my objects with Transfer. It’s not to say that there haven’t been any problems (we have found a lot of problems with memory leaks in Coldfusion), but overall I am very satisfied with the ability to deliver a product using a technology that was brand new to me, and I think that is a testament to the Coldfusion community. 

I also want to thank my fellow co-workers and colleagues Clint Miller and Dan VanMilligan for mentoring me and helping pick up the slack down the stretch to get this website launched.