Hal Helms On Web Development - Event Driven Programming

Event-Driven Programming: Why?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:09:00 -0400

Yesterday, we looked at some simple server code that is called by events generated on the client. We saw that the server returns an EVENT property in its response -- but that my example never uses it. Today, we're going to see how that is used -- and why I think EDP is a BigDeal(tm). [More]

Event-Driven Programming: an MVC Example, Part II

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:37:00 -0400

Yesterday, I showed an example of an EDP implementation on the client. Let's do a quick review of the main points and then look at the server code. [More]

Event-Driven Programming: an MVC Example

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:04:00 -0400

I recently wrote a blog post on EDP (Event-Driven Programming). Ray Camden asked me to come up with an example of using EDP with a Model-View-Controller architecture. Over the weekend, I did just that. As a bonus, I'm including a jQuery plugin that will allow you to make Ajax calls to the server without using ColdFusion's CFAJAXPROXY tag. [More]