Monthly Archives: November 2006

November 29, 2006

Will CFMX8 have cfcontinue?

There are a couple of nice statements you can use to control processing within loops, namely break continue Break is of course used to exit the current loop entirely and resume page processing from the first CF statement after the end loop tag. Lovely! Continue has a subtle but handy difference, it ends the current [...]

November 16, 2006

Commenting templates with author data

We all know that we should liberally comment our code to allow other developers (and yourself) to quickly and easily find out what a particular section of code does. But what about a comment block at the top of the page so anybody can (at a glance) determine template specific information? Here is an example [...]

November 15, 2006

Getting tag functionality in cfscript

For some developers there is an age old argument between the use of ColdFusion tags and <cfscript>, I’m not going to delve too much into this argument as I believe you can use both for different scenarios. What I will say is that I do like many things about <cfscript>. It is easy to read [...]

November 14, 2006

WordPress RSS feed validation

I’ve been using WordPress for a while now and I’m really happy with it. Only recently have I tried to validate my RSS feed using feedvalidator. Unfortunately even though the feed validated I received the following warning: wfw:commentRSS should be wfw:commentRss The explanation given on the site was: Due to a clerical error, the element [...]

November 13, 2006

Lightweight Notepad replacements

Usually when developing you have all your relevant development files contained within a central project directory, so you can of course access any file you want from within your IDE environment. Sometimes however (and this is very often for me) you want to open a file (or bunch of files) which don’t exist in a [...]