Pat Santora

Recent Blog Comments By Pat Santora

• Ben Forta At The NYCFUG: ColdFusion Centaur, Bolt, And Flash Tour

  Posted on Jun 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM

  Nice shoes! I did not know that they came with strobes. :) (First Pic). Cool effect. It's great to see some of these features in CF (datasource, Implicit Array/Struct and oh yes the method calling from arrays.. VERY nice!) I am looking forward to the same meeting in San Francisco in the upcoming w... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 10, 2008 at 1:31 AM

  Hey Ben, Honestly, while writing aspects of my recent post above I did see the flag waving in the distance :). But I pushed it out there anyways to get your opinion. :) I'm use to this approach with some sort of added security in mind. So to answer your questions "yes" the idea was to push the pro... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:57 PM

  You can also move some of those common methods (example: LoadObjectsFromQuery) to the DataAccessService and make them one off helper methods which can be called after your BO Service retrieves that data. Simply pass in the query and BO type and the helper should be able to cycle through the query an... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM

  BTW I am happy to help work something like this into your app with you if you'd like. -Pat... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:39 PM

  One way I would process a form would be to create DataAccessService (can contain your validation type methods/classes references as well as give you functionality to pass back a BO object after it has gathered data from the factory) that ties to a DAOFactory which would pull a specified DAO from th... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:05 PM

  Ok, so I read your post again and I think I was a little off ;-). My instinct says to keep your data access methods within a service which can talk to the DAO factory. I think that a good path. If you want your application to be able to build your business objects you might need your application ... read more »

• OOPhoto: Been A Bit Stumped Lately With The Next Step

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM

  Ben, First let me say your examples expressed for OOPhoto are great. Good job and keep up the great work. Now in regards to the wall you are hitting it sounds like you are on the right path. Building a factory (DOAFactory for example) could assist here couldn't it? Maybe even look into using Tansf... read more »