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• ↓ Creating A StructPop() Function In ColdFusion
• ↓ Code Kata: Creating String Interpolation Templates In ColdFusion
• ↓ New round() Precision In Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Update 8
• ↓ Building Tree Structures From Hierarchical Data In ColdFusion
• ↓ Calling Member Methods On Literals In Adobe ColdFusion 2025.0.8
• ↓ Using Sets To Gather Unique Values In Adobe ColdFusion 2025.0.8
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"It's amazing what kind of problems you can solve with a handful of simple data structures. But, the elegance of those algorithms is, in part, constrained by the elegance of the underlying data structure APIs. For example, the Array.pop() and Array.shift() methods — which simultaneously read-from and delete-from the given array — are extremely useful and bring a high degree of readability to your algorithms. And although ColdFusion finally brought pop() and shift() style methods to the language a few versions ago for arrays, there's no equivalent for structs. As such, I wanted to look at what a Struct.pop() method might look like... read more →"

"I've been feeling a little blocked — creatively — lately. So, I've been trying to keep my mind active with a little internal house-cleaning on my blog infrastructure. One of the things that my blog has to do is generate search engine optimized (SEO) URLs based on semantic segments. For example, the deep-link to a blog post looks something like this:.. read more →"

"This is a super minor improvement in the recent releases of Adobe ColdFusion 2025, but the need has come up in my code enough to merit a quick mention. The round() function now accepts a number of decimal places for rounding precision. Historically, the round() function has only rounded to the nearest integer. Which meant that if you wanted to round to, for example, 2 decimal places, you had to jump through some hoops to get there. But now, you can just pass a second argument with the number of decimals places desired... read more →"

"The other day on the CFBreak newsletter, Robert Zehnder had a code kata post about creating tree structures using a recursive function. His approach is clever and makes you think. And it inspired me to talk about how I build tree structures in ColdFusion. Which is something I've had to do a lot in my career. While significantly less clever than Robert's recursive brain teaser, my approach uses a two-pass O(n) algorithm... read more →"

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Creating A StructPop() Function In ColdFusion

Code Kata: Creating String Interpolation Templates In ColdFusion

New round() Precision In Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Update 8

Building Tree Structures From Hierarchical Data In ColdFusion

Calling Member Methods On Literals In Adobe ColdFusion 2025.0.8

Using Sets To Gather Unique Values In Adobe ColdFusion 2025.0.8