OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Stewart
I understand the black box principle of CFC's, make sure that your cfc's can stand on their own as black boxes. When doing OOP based development, does this paradigm extend to non-cfc ColdFusion files, IE: display and action pages. Thanks sas -- Scott Stewart CTT+ Technical Trainer

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread David McGraw
At some point your going to have to develop some uniqueness into your application that is project specific. You can spend a lot of time on form generators, and generic and configurable work flow engines, but is the time worth it? I even have some CFC's that are project specific. What I try

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Scott Stewart sstwebwo...@bellsouth.netwrote: I understand the black box principle of CFC's, make sure that your cfc's can stand on their own as black boxes. When doing OOP based development, does this paradigm extend to non-cfc ColdFusion files, IE:

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Dave Watts
I understand the black box principle of CFC's, make sure that your cfc's can stand on their own as black boxes. When doing OOP based development, does this paradigm extend to non-cfc ColdFusion files, IE: display and action pages. In general, any program should have a defined set of inputs

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: So, my overall advice here would be not to overthink display logic - it's the least formal layer in an HTML-based MVC application. I might go further and suggest not to overthink any aspect of your design. The biggest

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Stewart
So what your saying is, design patterns, like music theory, exist so you know when you're breaking them :) On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: So, my overall advice here would be not

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.com wrote: So what your saying is, design patterns, like music theory, exist so you know when you're breaking them :) That's a good way of phrasing it :) The key thing to remember about design patterns is they include a set