While cleaning out the office recently, I ran across a couple of textbooks I kept from my business school courses. I didn't care much for business school, but I did learn some valuable concepts. A few of which came from a course on Organizational Behaviour (OB). OB is a "management science" which can be briefly described as the study of groups in organizations. A goal of OB is to determine the best strategy to use within an organization to maximize employee performance (productivity) and, as a result, profitability. If you think of an organization with managers and employees, where each employee performs specific duties, you might find it strange to have a manager for every employee. You rarely see this in the real world, because it is grossly inefficient.

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In this post I'll provide a deeper insight into how Dispatcher works and introduce the three generic views that make up the "generic admin". After generating some code with Illudium, we'll have all the pieces to perform CRUD operations...

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If you are not using Illudium to generate your application classes, I encourage you to check it out. Out of the box, the code generator comes with several templates for generating CFCs, Transfer and ColdSpring XML, Actionscript VOs (value objects) and TOs (simple transfer objects designed for Flex development). Modifying, or creating your own templates is encouraged and easy. The template I developed for this series uses ColdFusion templating, but you can also use XSLT or a combination of both...

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