Latest News from Ben Edwards

ColdFusion Developer's Journal Special "Frameworks" Focus Issue: Mach-II

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:45:00 EST

It's all Simon's fault. We say this to all framework writers who, even now, are trying to recover from the task assigned them by CFDJ's editor-in-chief: provide an article and an implementation of the Macromedia Pet Market application in their chosen framework.

Rethinking Decorators

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:00:00 EDT

Ben and I were talking about my earlier CFDJ article on the Decorator design pattern [cfdj, vol. 6 issue 11]. In the article, I explained how the Decorator pattern could be used in situations in which there exists a base class with various options.

Mach-II

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 EDT

With the release of the MX version, ColdFusion has moved from its strict procedural programming background toward object-oriented design and programming. This move has evoked both hope and fear in developers, some welcoming the decidedly new concepts of object orientation (OO) and some dreading that they will lose the language they love.