You're not actually being anal; you are letting an implementation detail bubble up into the requirements. What you suggested allows for a page to be served with blog entries sorted in ascending order for example, which breaks the periodical semantics inherent in a blog. The approach you describe could be used for the implementation of the requirements. However, certain combinations of options would have to be disallowed to retain the periodical semantics.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Raymond Camden > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] bakeoff > > > > > Anonymous functionality > > * Show X recent blog entries in descending order by post date and time > > * Show X blog entry > > * Show blog entries for X date in descending order by post time > > * Show blog entries for X week in descending order by post > > data and time > > * Show blog entries for X month in descending order by post > > data and time > > * Show blog entries for X category in descending order by > > post data and time > > > > Just to be anal, I'd rewrite the above to be more generic: > > Allow for a filter that contains various constraints as well as sort > orders. > > So, constraints may be > > lastN > updatedAfter > updatedBefore > onDateX > inMonthYear X/Y > etc > > Sort orders would be > > title asc/desc > updated asc/desc > etc > > ======================================================================== > === > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc > (www.mindseye.com) > Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog > Yahoo IM : morpheus > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
