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Recent Blog Comments By Joe Bodell

• Thinking About Encapsulation And Direct Object References

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM

  Back in your home turf of CF, I always design my services with several "default" methods per domain object (okay, call it a "database table"): get{object}() takes the primary key of the table as an argument and returns a single record save{object} takes a single-re... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 1

  Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM

  Er....not "directly" .... meant "dynamically" .... need caffeine!... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 1

  Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 9:35 AM

  @Ben, Not being able to call methods directly (without using <cfinvoke>) on CFCs has been one really frustrating "feature" of CF for me -- good to read about other languages in which it's easy. As for the AI class...I almost took it a couple of years after you, but was... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 1

  Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 9:17 AM

  Ben, Comp 80, or did you take Schmolze's AI class?... read more »

• Copy / Import XML Nodes Into A ColdFusion XML Document

  Posted on Mar 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM

  Ben, I may be missing one or two details, but would this version work? <cffunction name="XmlImport" access="public" returntype="struct" output="false" hint="I import the given XML data into the given XML document so that it can inserted into the node tree."> <cf... read more »

• OOP Getters() And Setters() - A New Programmer's Frustration

  Posted on Oct 14, 2008 at 11:07 AM

  <blockquote>In ColdFusion, there's really no difference between Ints, Doubles, Floats, and Strings (etc.), so simple-data-type encapsulation means nothing to me. Don't talk to me about what happens when a hundred references to an INT suddenly need to be a 100 references to a BIGINT. In a lo... read more »