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Architecting Your ColdFusion Objects

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:30:00 EST

Once you've learned the syntax of cfcs, one of the hardest things to do is to figure out exactly how and where to use them. The goal of this article is to run you through the most common (and useful) ways to use cfcs to make your applications easier to maintain.

CFDJ Feature — An Introduction to Intent Driven Design

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:00:00 EST

Often the hardest part of developing an application is getting agreement on what exactly it should do. Intent Driven Design (IDD) is an approach that simplifies and standardizes the process of getting detailed technical requirements from non-technical business users so you can develop more complete and consistent requirements in less time.

Encapsulating Recordsets

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:00:00 EST

One of the first things that you encounter when moving to object-oriented (OO) programming are beans. Beans are simple representations of a business object (like a user or a product) that hide all of the information stored in the bean behind methods (functions) for getting and setting the information (called, unsurprisingly, getters and setters).