http://goodcf.instantspot.com ago, perceptum, diligo en-us This work is Copyright © 2009 by Tales of a Good CF Dev RSSVille ColdFusion FeedMaker, version 1.0 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:11:20 GMT http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2009/05/21/Applying-Design-Patterns-in-ColdFusion--The-Observer-Pattern I have to say, I'm pretty excited about how the observer pattern works. Coming from the mindset of event driven programming and asynchronous communication, it seems to have many similar traits. Head First Design Patterns describes the observer patterns as: The Observer Pattern defines a one-to-many dependancy between objects so that when one object changes state, all of its dependants are notified and updated automatically Or to put it another way, the Observer Pattern allows one or many objects, in this case we call them observers, to register themselves with a single object, the subject, in order to have the data they need pushed to them from the subject. How each of the observers reacts to the data can vary greatly. Thu, 21 May 2009 15:14:00 GMT http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2009/05/21/Applying-Design-Patterns-in-ColdFusion--The-Observer-Pattern Coldfusion,Design Patterns http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2009/05/20/Applying-Design-Patterns-to-ColdFusion--Intoduction I recently had the Head First Design Patterns book handed to me. This is a fascinating book, however, I imagine that a number of ColdFusion developers would take one look, see all the Java and move on to the next book, or worse, abandon the concept of design patterns in CF. I think if I had picked up this book a year ago I would have been in the latter camp and stuck with what I know and enjoyed my comfortable rut. My goal, over the course of reading this book, is to share with community the patterns I learn and how to apply them in CF with some close to real world examples. If you are interested in how to use design patterns with CF and would like to follow along with my journey I encourage you to buy, borrow or steal (ok, don t steal it) a copy of the book. I ll do my best to relate my posts to the chapters they are inspired by. I hadn t planned on covering chapter 1, but if anyone feels that it should be looked at please let me know and I ll take a look at it again. I ll be starting my series with chapter 2, The Observer Pattern, later today. Wed, 20 May 2009 14:51:00 GMT http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2009/05/20/Applying-Design-Patterns-to-ColdFusion--Intoduction Coldfusion,Design Patterns http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2008/02/13/JQuery-and-a-First-Blog-Entry A little info about me, and the praises of a 9 hours old JQuery developer. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:45:00 GMT http://goodcf.instantspot.com/blog/2008/02/13/JQuery-and-a-First-Blog-Entry General