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Strange behaviour component, methods not found

I have a really really strange bug. All my applications have a settings.cfc in the webroot of the application. Some cfc's have more methods than others but all my other cfc's extend the root settings.cfc, all cfc's are stored in an application variable called application.cfc and all applications have their own application_name (in case you are wondering)

The bug i'm having is that the correct settings.cfc is extended but a certain method in that cfc is not found..... if I remove all methods it keeps finding the other methods???, but if I change the this variables with other values in the settings.cfc it will see those changes???

It appears to me that the application scope is saving or caching a different settings.cfc and his methods instead of the correct one. Especially because if I remove the methods it will still show the methods in a cfdump....

Could anyone point me in the right direction??

547 viewed | 3 opinion(s)  | del.icio.us | Digg it | Tjarko @ 21:25 cet

Simple Standard CSS

Just add to your stylesheet and enjoy the simple enhancements..

::selection {background:#c3effd;color:#000;} /* Safari & Opera */
::-moz-selection {background:#c3effd;color:#000;} /* Firefox */

input, textarea, select {-moz-border-radius:4px;-webkit-border-radius:4px;}

Furthermore, check davidwalsh.name for other things I just didn't use yet ;)

590 viewed | Your opinion...  | del.icio.us | Digg it | Michiel @ 14:16 cet

Stop whining for scripting support

In several articles people start asking for better scripting support in ColdFusion version 9. I hope from the bottom of my heart that this will not happen. ColdFusion has been and hopefully always will be a tag-based language and if you like scripting start using JSP or JAVA together with ColdFusion or not.

Scripting is killing for the language. It doesn't make sence to use scripting in a language that uses tags.. it's total chaos if you look at some of the applications where tags and scripting is used for the only reason that it is possible to do so... And don't say it's easier to set variables as arrays and structure because it isn't. For logical and "clean" coding we all need to be doing the same thing and that's using tags for this purpose, this way every other CF developer will understand what is being done, even the once that just startout using CF.

The language would be better of to be more strict about the use of it's tags and variables, then keep adding support for programming in different ways.

My humble 2 cents

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Just some statistics for 2008

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