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I ran across an odd situation this morning regarding a web application I’m building. The business rules for the application calls for a certain form to be used during multiple transactions — hence multiple pages. Rather than creating the same form elements multiple times, I wanted to take advantage of .NET’s reusable code flavor: Web [...]

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 [...]

As a web developer caching is a part of my world. It’s something I have to deal with and account for on a regular basis, but lately something has been really getting to me. Does anybody else think that FireFox’s style caching is way to aggressive?
While working with Firebug, I’m constantly making smaller changes [...]

The problem:
I need to grab both column labels and row values from my database based on nothing more than a passed table name. Getting the data is easy, and getting the column labels is easier thanks Coldfusion’s variable attributes but it isn’t quite what I want.

The cfquery results attribute “.columnList” returns the table’s column [...]