So there I was, sitting back and reading Doug Boude's recent post on The Model-Glue Event Lifecycle in Layman's Terms. Good article, I thought. Nice descriptions. Then one paragraph jumped out at me and I had a sudden realization: OMG, we've regressed back in time.
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Aaron over on WebStandards.org is advocating that web sites NOT design specifically for the iPhone, but for all mobile devices. While cogent, I think his arguments are missing a critical element.
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Brian Kotek recently wrote on the fusebox5 list a short discussion on using session facades. In short you're making a component to encapsulate gets and sets to the session structure. Why do this? Well, it turns out that there are two good really reasons: his and mine.
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The ColdFusion product manager, Jason Delmore, dropped by and left a comment on "Adobe Wants You To Buy ColdFusion 8 Enterprise". In it, he points me to the more informative ColdFusion Product Matrix (PDF), and explains that many of the "limited" features are restricted not in terms of functionality, but in the number of simultaneous requests that can be made to them. Namely: one.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help his case. Here's why.
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