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CFAjaxProxy - dos and don'ts

 Further to Friday's post regarding my issue with CFAjaxProxy and getter / setter methods this reason for the failure to persist the variables set was neatly explained by Andrew Scott, both in the comments on this blog, via twitter and in more detail on a post on his own blog.

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More on OO ColdFusion ...

 Typical isn't it? Just as soon as I come up with a good idea for a series I then find another site that is already doing the same thing, only better, prettier and slightly further on. I will be continuing my series of OO ColdFusion posts as I feel there are still areas that are have not yet been addressed but in the mean time please check out the awesome list of resources and concepts covered by the Object Oriented Coldfusion site.
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Getting started with ColdFusion Object Oriented Development - a real world guide

 Object Orientation is one of those concepts that seems to be everywhere these days. A quick search will yield a ton of resources to introduce you to the concepts of OO and before you know it you'll be up to your neck in Encapsulation, Inheritance, Data Hiding, Instantiation, Invocation and a whole load of other terms that you'll be able to vaguely understand even if you can't spell most of them! There is something missing though, something that I've always found to be something of a stumbling block when attempting to flesh out my OO knowledge in any language (whether it be Python, PHP or ColdFusion). These concepts are very important to OO and you certainly have to understand them in order to design OO code but the examples given often stop just short of how to implement an entire web application using OO techniques.

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