I’m a big fan of Cold Fusion Components. The problem is that I’m not exactly sure how to get the most out of them. For me, the CFC (ColdFusion Component) is kind of like a really “good” modern art piece. I know that there are all kinds of cool stuff going on, but I’m not exactly sure how to figure it out or what it means.

Because of that, I’m always on the lookout for good examples or ideas for CFCs. Surprisingly, there’s a lot of stuff out there. The Macromedia site has some good articles, but I read one today that I liked – http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5144505.html.

It’s not really all that informative from an idea standpoint, but so far my adventures into CFC land have just been creating glorified user defined functions. I think that the maintainability and the separation of business logic from presentation is important, but I have yet to really capture the essence of CFCs in any of my code. I think Polymorphism is the first step to doing that, and the article presented some good examples.

Of course my housecat could definitely eat a Zebra. Shadow is awesome.