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Recent Blog Comments By Andrew Powell

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM

  @Ben - The idea of an interface is that it is a "contract" as to how the Object will function. Implementation of the interface guarantees that the contract will be adhered to in the implementing class. Assuming that if they have the same methods you can trust them to be used the same way is a d... read more »

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM

  @Ben - Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see where you're implementing an interface. I see a lot of inheritance by extending Object, but no example of implents="interfacename". Am I missing it here?... read more »

• Ben Nadel's Easy Tips For Writing Better, More Optimized SQL

  Posted on Mar 27, 2008 at 2:57 PM

  Now don't go misquoting me... I said developers should not be writing SQL, not that they shouldn't know it. :)... read more »

• Testing ColdFusion Custom Tag Processing Overhead

  Posted on Nov 29, 2007 at 1:12 PM

  Just out of curiosity, is this code being used in the model, controller, or view of an app?... read more »

• Applying IM Text Abbreviations With ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 6, 2007 at 9:05 AM

  Sounds like this is something that's a candidate for a web service! Going that route though, I'd suggest storing the mappings as an XML file (formatted as WDDX) for easy maintainability, or a user-updateable database table.... read more »