http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:57:36 -0400 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:40:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss test@test.com test@test.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/3/30/Pages-Screens-and-Controls I find that I need three separate metaphors for UI elements to cover the functionality that I require in my generated apps: pages, screens and controls. This posting looks at how each works in an HTML application and also compares how the concepts map to RIAs . . . [More] User Interface Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:40:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/3/30/Pages-Screens-and-Controls http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/11/30/CF-Include-in-a-CFC On the whole I'm not a fan of using cfincludes within a cfc. However, Hal Helms pointed out a great use for this with class based mixins. There are definitely downsides in terms of it being less clear what methods the component contains just by looking at the cfc but there are definite use cases where class based mixins can easily solve problems that would otherwise be difficult while staying DRY. Even worse than cfincluding functions though is the idea of cfincluding a chunk of script into a cfc method. I did it with my programmatic config script for LightWire and have decided that Jared (and everyone else) was right - an XML config file is a better solution and I'll be implementing that as soon as I get a chance. But I've come up with another use case for a cfinclude within a cfc and it has to do with rendering components . . . [More] User Interface Design Patterns Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:39:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/11/30/CF-Include-in-a-CFC