Just a reminder to peeps out there.

We all know the benefits of using application.cfc, right?

Well remember this – If you’re writing a distributable application, one that may sit on BlueDragon or CFMX 6, don’t use application.cfc….. it won’t work.

So endith the sermon.

You learn something new everyday! I Just discovered that in Coldfusion 7 you can get query infomation (metadata) by adding result = ‘aVariable’ to the cfquery tag.

for example:

select * from aTable

The resulting dump shows:

CACHED (boolean)
COLUMNLIST (the names of the columns returned)
EXECUTIONTIME (time to execute query ms)
RECORDCOUNT (rows returned)
SQL (the sql that was executed)

I use it [...]

Today we took our son Jaydon Kyle (5 months) to see Santa.Its JK’s first xmas and his first visit to Santa.
So for all you doubters out there… Santa does exist, the photo proves it.

Over at Mike schierberl’s blog I discoved his Varscoper Tool.
This is a great utility for us function writers as it allows you to plug in a file (cfc or cfm) and it will inspect the functions inside to see if you have missed any local variables from the VAR scope.
I hope mike doesn’t mind, but [...]

Jaydon Kyle Porter – aged 5 months.