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I now have a Mango Blog at:

http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog

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Mark Mandel is transforming his ORM Transfer into Professional Open Source Software. This means that Mark will be offering paid for services based around the the ORM that will include training, support, and certification.

If you are interested in any of this make sure you let him know via the his contact form, or via the Transfer Google Group.

Read all about it at http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=281

Transfer on ColdFusion Community

CFFrameworks arranged another online presentation with Mark Mandel who gave an in depth workshop on advanced Transfer ORM techniques.

Lasting just short of an hour the presentation covered

1. Caching with Transfer
2. Observable Events
3. Decorators
4. Transfer Query Language (TQL)

Check it out at(and all the chatter) at http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p36459808/

I love working with Transfer and Mark Mandel has done an amazing feat of giving it some really good documentation. But I remember when I was getting started I was looking for a rough guide to the TQL language for Transfer and how to implement it. So based on all the information at www.transfer-orm.com/transfer/documentation/ here's a quick start to TQL.

Please note: I am presuming you already know how to set up Transfer and have basic knowledge of how it works.

For this example here is our Transfer.xml configuration file:

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