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I have been working with some of my CFCs and was setting a default property for it. I'm using the CFProperty tags and the "this" scope as I'm returning the results to a flex component. I have all of my defaults set up in my cfproperty and "this" scope and was trying to use my "init()" function to return the object. However, each time I tried to access the object, ColdFusion was throwing the error message "5". That's right, just the number 5, nothing else.

Once I had narrowed it down to the init… Continue

This is completely off topic for ColdFusion, but has been bugging me for about 10 years (junior year in college).

I bought a really great CD, Ska - The Third Wave, from a used CD store (I recently found out that it was disc 1 of a 5 disc set, but I've been pretty happy with just the first disc). The song is in my playlist on my main page, Undercover SKA - My Girl Became A Dude (The Transexual Song). It's a funny song and pretty catchy, but there is one line in the chorus that I absolutely canno… Continue

Back in January I saw Brian Kotek's post about returning typed structs to Flex. When I first read this article, I wasn't sure how useful it was (I guess I was getting a little confused with the addition of Transfer and AOP in the article, and figured it was just something for that framework). A few weeks later I came across… Continue

I'm sure this is something that is very important to many folks that hold St. Patrick near and dear to their hearts. If you want to raise more pints of Guinness in his memory, but don't feel that there is enough time after you get off work March 17th, don't forget to sign proposition 317 to petition to get St. Patrick's Day recognized as an official holiday.

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Well, certi-FIED anyway. I finally got around to taking my ColdFusion MX7 Developer exam today. I only got an 81%...so enough for a certification, but not for the advanced cert. This was my first time taking the exam (even though I've been using CF for 7 years now), so I'm happy with the result.

It was definitely tougher than I thought it would be. I think what made it so hard was all of the parts of code that I don't use too often that showed up on the test (cfchart, cfform, etc.) I to… Continue