Will Belden

Recent Blog Comments By Will Belden

• Iterating Over Function Arguments Using CFLoop In Lucee CFML

  Posted on Jan 7, 2023 at 3:58 PM

  What I truly wish would get added to CFML? Function overloading. That would be awesome. Right now, you can at least use the "default" attribute on an argument, and use cfparam, as well. But true detection of argument types and having CFML call the appropriately flavored function ... read more »

• Preventing Unbounded Full-Table Scans In My ColdFusion Database Access Layer

  Posted on Nov 7, 2022 at 2:37 PM

  What would also be interesting, I guess in a pre-compile sort of way, is to go to the database (I'm more of an MSSQL guy, so INFORMATION_SCHEMA, etc.) and pre-determine which indexes exist. Maybe on a reinit operation, refresh those into local files, unsure. But have a list of those columns ... read more »

• Considering The "Bounded Context" Of Error Messages In A ColdFusion Application

  Posted on Oct 26, 2022 at 3:46 PM

  Curious what the "as422" is!... read more »

• Considering The "Bounded Context" Of Error Messages In A ColdFusion Application

  Posted on Oct 25, 2022 at 2:03 PM

  My first immediate thought, comparing those two last code samples, is to use a "dictionary". I can't think of the pattern offhand, maybe "resource bundles". Your value of "BenNadel.Entity.Member.Name.Empty" is already the key, but in this scenario, you load ... read more »