Author Archives: eapen

This is a handy tip courtesy of Matt Woodward – you actually pay a penalty by not referring to the port directly in your connection strings. For optimal connection performance, you should set the portNumber when you connect to a … Continue reading →

If your site handles sessions and undergoes PCI compliance testing or is frequently indexed by Search Engine bots, a really quick optimization is to limit the session limit based on the User Agent. In ColdFusion, you can do something like: … Continue reading →

If you ever run into the error: coldfusion.runtime.NeoBodyContent.cfoutput(NeoBodyContent.java:121) and it repeats a hundred times, make sure you dont have an infinite loop in your code. Just found this the hard way and didn’t find any specific references on Google for … Continue reading →

Despite being a Javascript user for years, there were some things I still didn’t know. Here are some of the interesting points I found from Ben Cherry’s presentation names are always hoisted to the top of their scope and always … Continue reading →