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I didn’t do very well (at all) following through with my 2010 new year’s resolutions — and I have no shortage of excuses why. Rather than lament over the past 12 months about things that didn’t get done, and/or why they didn’t get done, I’m just going to forge ahead and pen my resolutions for [...]

A couple of developers and I have been discussing the practice of adding a closing slash to single line Cold Fusion tags. IE:

<cfset variables.sexyLady = "Olivia Munn">

<!— Vs. —>

<cfset variables.sexyLady = "Olivia Munn" />

Some are of the camp that the closing slash is an extra key stroke and a waste of time. Others, like myself, [...]

Coldfusion’s IsDate() method has fooled me for the last time. Where as any self respecting programmer would think that a method name IsDate, that returns a value of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ no less, would be checking to ensure that the date in fact is valid. That is where I was wrong. Looking at the method [...]

I think I may have stumbled upon some odd, unexpected and (definitely) undesired behavior with ColdFusion. The application that I’m working on has a module which needs to create a bit of dynamic SQL. Not a problem here, as I step through my conditions I’m populating an array that I can later loop through to [...]

This is something really simple that I consistently overlook. When considering StructKeyExists() or IsDefined(), StructKeyExists() normally always wins. It’s scope parameter instructs ColdFusion where to look for a particular variable, where as IsDefined() forces Cold Fusion to search through all the scopes. The performance impact is obvious.
A possible exception to this rule, and where [...]