Peter Bell is back! This is good news overall, but did result in some hard decisions as he posted a large selection of great entries. In addition to a great selection of blog entries (including, painfully, just one by Peter), I also have a bonus section of the OO discussion resulting largely from Ben Nadel's recent trip to take Hal Helms class on OO.
The week covers some of the limitations of ColdFusion (and IE) as well as a great entry on balancing the "purity" of OO and a great example of refactoring ColdFusion code. I also link to Ben Nadel's great entries on his class with Hal Helms.
Since I first started using ColdFusion (in the late 20th century), I have loved the language. Once of the few things I haven't loved about it, however, is the absence of JavaScript-like operators that so many other languages have.
This week has great information to get around some of the "oddities" of ColdFusion (even the best language can have eccentricities) as well as great discussions on billing and merges.
September ends with a great and varied selection of blog entries, from object instantiation performance graphs to some great how-tos.
When the recent spat of SQL Injection attacks starting hitting the ColdFusion community recently, I actually felt pretty safe. I thought to myself, "I have been using <cfqueryparam> for years. Every query that I have written since before I started working for myself has been safe from SQL injection attacks."
Sorry this is a day late (out sick yesterday). Out of a great selection of entries, my bias for discussion of HTML (still the lingua franca of the web) seems to have impacted my choices a bit this week.
I don't know what got in the water this week, but the selection of blog entries was amazing. It was really hard to pick just five.
The easiest pick, however, was Charlie Arehart's entry on CF411. Although this is really a renaming of existing resources, it is still a tremendously valuable resource for any ColdFusion programmer.
Yesterday was Labor Day here in the states, hence this post on Tuesday. Google has announced Google Chrome, a new browser. It looks interesting.
A good friend of mine has recently been educating me on the advantages of Functional Programming. As part of that, he has demonstrated some pretty nifty examples of LINQ in C#. When I first heard about LINQ, I wasn't impressed. Having seen his examples of using LINQ for Functional Programming, however, I now see the advantage.
The consequence of this is that I now find it ugly to have to do loops just to get a subset of data. I want to just be able to describe the data that I want.
