http://www.blogoffusion.com ColdFusion Blogs en-us Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:38:06 -0400 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:24:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mdinowit@houseoffusion.com mdinowit@houseoffusion.com http://www.blogoffusion.com/063009-examining-my-coldfusion-job-search.cfm My post on "Are there really ColdFusion jobs?" got a comment which was echoed by Sean Corfield on his blog (ColdFusion Jobs? Really?). It seems that I didn't answer my own question. In truth, I was using it as a jump off point but looking over the ... Best Practices Opinion Jobs Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:24:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/063009-examining-my-coldfusion-job-search.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-what-i-did-to-mach-ii.cfm There has been a lot of interest in the steps I took to optimize my client's website. The main interest was in what I did to Mach II in order to speed it up, especially as Mach II is rather optimized to start with. The answer is to cheat. If y... Optimization Best Practices Frameworks Coding Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:05:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-what-i-did-to-mach-ii.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-i-dont-hate-mach-ii.cfm I was doing a remote presentation last night on "Object Orienter Programming for ColdFusion Developers" and it eventually moved over to the topic of optimizing ColdFusion Components. While I was showing what I do for speed, I relayed a story about ... Optimization Best Practices Frameworks OOP Coding Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/013107-i-dont-hate-mach-ii.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/112306-execution-functions-and-evaluation-zones.cfm Waaaay back in 2000, I wrote an article on certain 'laws' of ColdFusion that I used: The Law (according to Michael Dinowitz) One part of this article was a rundown of what I called Execution Functions. Basically, these were functions that either r... Coding Best Practices Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:36:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/112306-execution-functions-and-evaluation-zones.cfm http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-structkeyexists-vs-isdefined-when-checking-2-scopes.cfm There has been a movement away from using the IsDefined() function to using the StructKeyExists() function. The reasoning is that when IsDefined() is used to find an unscoped variable, it follows a specific order of scope evaluation that goes through... Optimization Best Practices Coding Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:16:00 -0400 http://www.blogoffusion.com/112106-structkeyexists-vs-isdefined-when-checking-2-scopes.cfm