Mark Mandel (Melbourne, Australia)

Mark Mandel is the author of several open source projects, most notably Transfer ORM and JavaLoader and has been has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90's.

Workshop: Transfer Training Workshop

A full day workshop working with the author of the Transfer Object Relational Mapping Framework, Mark Mandel. This workshop will take you through building a sample application with Transfer, covering Eclipse IDE setup, installation and configuration, usage, and some of Transfer's more advanced feature set to show you how you can use Transfer to drastically cut down the amount of SQL and ColdFusion you need to write when developing applications, and start delivering applications in a fraction of the time you did previously. This workshop is suitable for those people who have never used Transfer, or any other ORM, as well as those who already have a familiarity with it.
FULL DAY Price: $495 (inc GST) More...

Database Queries the Easy Way using Transfer Query Language

Transfer ORM provides you with a lot of functionality in terms of managing and modelling the data in your system, but it also provides you with the tools to do complex database queries, with a fraction of the code that you would normally write. Transfer Query Language is SQL-like scripting language that is built into Transfer ORM that allows you to do complex queries against your database, with far less code than conventional SQL. By utilising the XML configuration of Transfer, TQL can generate a large amount of the underlying SQL for you, while also allowing you to build queries that are based on your object model, which removes the need to concept shift back to the relational database model when developing. More...

Speaker Details

Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion, Java and various other aspects of software development for several years. He can also be found as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network.

When he's not too busy writing open source software and consulting he enjoys spending his extra time getting beaten up, training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.