Thanks for the tips guys... Any new work I do these days is in CF doing OO. I use objects (I'm assuming as beans) such as User object, which has a DAO behind it for doing CRUD work. Where I get stuck is when I see things like Transfer Objects and Gateways. Trying to decide where to place small query operations that don't necessarily fit the standard CRUD operations of a particular object. For instance, if I'm tracking downloads of a snippet for a user, do I do that operation with the user (since users download snippets) or do I do it as an operation of a snippet (since the snippet was downloaded) or do I create a third object called SnippetManager that takes a snippet object and a user object and marries them together? I realize there's no "right way", but I continual struggle with trying to figure out which is the "more correct" way :).
I guess what I should most likely do is rebuild my blog, which has been in ASP for years, using one technology at a time..., now I just have to figure out which order do use them in :). Thanks again, Dan > You hit the nail on the head. My path to OOishness started > more than two years ago (after many many years of procedural > programming). I started by taking Hal Helm's class on > Mach-II. I figured after 3 days I'd know this stuff > backwards and forwards. (I consider myself to be reasonably > bright too.) So, after the class I quickly ran home and was > absolutely unable to get anything done. I spent the next two > years trying and trying and trying again. Then, one day, I > was working in Java (of all languages) and realized that > (holy hell!!) I was applying OO unconsciously. From that > point forward my learning curve has returned to my pre-OO days. > > > > As Sean frequently says, "This stuff is hard!" > > > > And as I always say, "You've got to try and screw up a few > times before you'll get it". Why? Because by messing up > you'll be able to see what went wrong. This, at least for > me, helps me to understand how to avoid this problem next time around. > > > > Anyhow, yea, just keep moving forward. > > > > Doug -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/
