Jeff Chastain

Many times object-oriented programming (OOP) is billed as the end-all solution to cure the spaghetti code that can come from procedural style applications. After all, you just have to stuff your logic code into a component (big OOP buzzword - encapsulation), and now your code is instantly better, right? How hard is it to stick a createObject function call or a tag in when you need to access that bit of code? Can anybody look into the future and see a problem here? Let's look at an example. Many object-oriented articles use cars as examples, so we'll stick with the trend. When we need to find out information about a given car, we simply instantiate the Car object as follows: Nice and easy, ri... (more)

CFDJ Feature — It Is Possible!

Now that Scorpio is here (at least in beta), it is time to start figuring out all the new tricks of the trade, right? However, as most of your clients will not be switching immediately, you will still have to be doing ColdFusion 7 work for some time. How do you run both ColdFusion 7 to support your current clients and ColdFusion 8 to keep your development skills sharp? You could run one u... (more)