As for the Sin-U-Duck, you can read more here:
http://www.daveshuck.com/index.cfm?commentID=57
In Head First Design Patterns (which is a very popular book among some of the minds that I respect most in the CF community) the opening chapter deals with how to implement the Strategy Pattern, by way of an imaginary company with an imaginary application called Sim-U-Duck. The book comes at the problem from a Java perspective, but I took it and implemented it in ColdFusion. That is pretty much it in a nutshell, but you can read about it and look at the sample code from the link above.
If you want any greater explanation after reading that or looking at code, feel free to ask. That was a fun project!
~Dave
On 1/25/06,
Matt Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
March meeting is 3/14. I'll let Dave explain Sim-U-Duck. ;-)
On 1/25/06, Gouger, Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> When is the March meeting? I should be able to present at that meeting.
>
> Sim-U-Duck????
>
> Jordan Gouger
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Matt Woodward
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:11 AM
> To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [DFW CFUG] Drag - n - drop sortable menus
>
> Definitely--we're always looking for speakers so if you'd like Jordan,
> we can get you on the schedule sometime fairly soon. We're set for
> February and potentially for March as well, and I just had someone
> contact me about speaking about Flex (and buying pizza no less), so
> we'll let them come pretty much whenever they want. ;-) I think Dave
> Schuck was still going to present on the Sim-U-Duck stuff (and maybe he
> can throw a duck typing discussion in there as well) sometime soon so
> you're more than welcome to present on the other half of that meeting.
> Let me know if that's of interest to you; it certainly would be of
> interest to the group.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> On 1/25/06, Jake McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I smell another meeting topic (even though I think we've had one on
> > AJAX, no?)
> >
> > Jeff Lucido wrote:
> >
> > > Jordan:
> > > Your menu system sounds very interesting. I am sure the group as a
> > > whole would benefit by understanding AJAX and what better way than a
>
> > > real world example of a very common thing we all do on most every
> > > project, menus. Would you mind creating a mini-how-to article and
> > > then post your code as well for all of us to geek over? Thanks in
> > > advance for sharing.
> > > -JSLucido
> > >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mast
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:54 AM
> > > *To:* Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
> > > *Subject:* RE: [DFW CFUG] Drag - n - drop sortable menus
> > >
> > > Awesome thanks!
> > >
> > > **Ron Mast**
> > >
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> > >
> > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Gouger,
> Jordan
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:48 AM
> > > *To:* Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
> > > *Subject:* RE: [DFW CFUG] Drag - n - drop sortable menus
> > >
> > > Ron,
> > >
> > > The menu is still in development but its coming along very
> nicely.
> > > The whole thing is written in AJAX with CFC powered XML
> > > code-behinds. It outputs everything as a DIV tag so it can
> contain
> > > as many children as you need it to. I'll send it over later
> today.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the link!
> > >
> > > Jordan Gouger
> > >
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> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
> > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mast
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:38 AM
> > > *To:* Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
> > > *Subject:* RE: [DFW CFUG] Drag - n - drop sortable menus
> > >
> > > That's cool Jordan, do you have an example of this menu? I've
> been
> > > looking for one that can contain unlimited levels of children.
> > >
> > > I did play with rico's drag-n-drop but have found their examples
> > > not working as you would expect. Luckily I have a CFDJ
> > > subscription and on the December issue Joe Danzger has an
> example
> > > of a drag-n-drop shopping cart in ajax and cf. Here's the
> article
> > > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/172585.htm
> > >
> > > I couldn't get the amazon cfhttp working but I understood enough
> > > to make this http://www.localwebsites.biz/ajaxsample/
> > >
> > > Hope this is what you were looking for.
> > >
> > > **Ron Mast**
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> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
> > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *On Behalf Of *Gouger,
> Jordan
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:58 AM
> > > *To:* Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
> > > *Subject:* [DFW CFUG] Drag - n - drop sortable menus
> > >
> > > I've been working on application that has a menu tree on it, and
> > > thought it would be really cool if it could have a drag-n-drop
> > > sortable menu. The only problem is that most of the freely
> > > available libraries I've seen on the net work but only if the
> menu
> > > is built with <li> tags. This one uses <div> tags because the
> menu
> > > can contain unlimited levels of children. Does anyone have any
> > > ideas on how to accomplish this?
> > >
> > > Also... I've played around with the openrico library and for
> > > anyone out there who has ever fiddled with trying to round
> corners
> > > might be very interested in checking out their examples. They
> have
> > > an example that shows how to do everything from rounding a
> > > particular corner to the entire box! Cross-Browser too!
> > > http://www.openrico.org/rico/demos.page?demo=rico_corner
> > >
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