Monthly Archives: March 2006

March 13, 2006
Session and client variable handling in CFMX

With CFMX there are a few new features you can take advantage of in relation to session and client variable handling, namely:

URLSessionFormat()
Using UUID for the CFToken value
Using J2EE Session Variables

URLSessionFormat()
We all know that using session variables primarily relies on the user have enabled cookies in their browser, otherwise you need to pass CFIDE and CFTOKEN [...]

March 12, 2006
What we need are better programmers

An interesting article by Simon Horwith on Frameworks and OOP for ColdFusion developers.
I agree that Frameworks could be a ‘crutch’, but that doesn’t mean you should stay away. I believe all developers should strive to keep their skills at the cutting edge by constant vigilence and study. Frameworks and OO design patterns can assist programmers [...]

March 11, 2006
New attribute and object variable in <cfquery> for CFMX7

Ever wanted to output the actual SQL from a dynamic query you are debugging? With CFMX 7 you can do it!
There is a new attribute in the tag called “result” which specifies a name for the structure in which cfquery returns the result variables.
Then you can reference #result_name.sql# to output the actual SQL statement to [...]