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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, [...]

I recently FUBAR’ed my computer at work. I’m not sure exactly how or why my system went down, but I the trigger for the crash was uninstalling the Xpise application. I the application worked very well while it was installed — I was using it for well over 6 months without issue — but when [...]

In my current project, I needed a the ability to output the current iteration while traversing through data-bound control as well as the report total sum of rows bound to the item using .NET. I needed something comparable to CurrentRow and RecordCount methods built into the Coldfusion query object.
I’m not use why these bits of [...]

I had to figure out how to perform just such a process for a project I’m currently working on. Being relatively new ASP.NET the first thing I did was head out to the internet to try and find a solid tutorial that would help me quickly figure out what I needed to do to get [...]

A quick tip for WordPress users trying to access post meta information within a custom loop and/or customized single page/post.
The Scenario
I’m using a theme-per-post plug to style different pages of my blog with separate themes. This involved creating custom page templates and changing the default WordPress query to a custom query in order [...]