Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

How to Think about Controller objects and Model objects

2008-07-29T09:31:00-05:00

Even though MVC has been "all the rage" now for a good long time and several frameworks have been lovingly and painstakingly developed and shared by the CF community to help facilitate the migration to a more standardized OO approach to development, I do believe that there will always be a need to regularly return to the foundational principles of our craft. For some, an affirmation or further perfecting of their core

Using Special Characters within Coldspring.XML

2008-07-24T00:09:05-05:00

Just because a person uses Model Glue and has learned enough about XML to know how to create basic settings doesn't necessarily mean that they have a strong command of XML, right? Well, I needed to put a funky, "special character filled" value into my global config object for use later, and through some experimentation found that using XML's 'CDATA' allowed me to do this so I thought I'd share it since I hadn't seen it

Model-Glue Ambiguous Error Matrix

2007-12-12T11:20:00-05:00

As any user of Model-Glue can attest to, there are often times when you get the ol' "OOPS!" message and it doesn't give you much of a clue as to what the REAL issue is. Well, in order to help myself save time during future development and decipher these rather vague and even misleading types of errors, I've begun keeping track of them. I capture the error itself, what I found the TRUE cause to be, and what I

Global Configuration Settings in Model-Glue:Unity

2007-06-10T09:58:00-05:00

When making the transition from procedural CF to OO, sometimes what was SO simple before can become a challenge (at least the first time). For instance, the way we used to pass around our app's DSN value was probably something along the lines of setting an application variable in our application.cfm or cfc, thus making it accessible throughout our app while consolidating the value to a single

Coldspring Automagic Lesson

2007-03-05T00:00:00-05:00

Okay, I spent the greater part of today at work wrestling with a situation involving the injection of objects into other objects using Coldspring. After far too many hours of experimentation, furrowed brow, taking up my teammate's time, and frustration, I came to some conclusions. I can't explain the "WHY's" of the conclusions, but i can definately validate the conclusions themselves by my results.