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Re: [cgiapp] Good practices: how many run modes in an app


On 12/17/05, Brad Cathey <suppressed> wrote:
>
> I'm writing a medium-sized web-based financial application that will have up
> to 50 run modes between presenting empty forms, saving, editing, updating,
> and deleting from them. Run modes *could* be broken down into groups, e.g.,
> these 4 deal with managing users, these 6 deal with managing project
> specifications, etc.

I would break each of them up into functional areas. My rule of thumb
is never more than 12, rarely more than 6, preferably 4 or less.
Anything more and I'm trying to do too much in the controller and
should be offloading into business objects.

Rob

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