One of the best ways to learn a new language is to dig in and explore. If you want to learn Adobe Flex 2, FlexBuilder is a great tool to become familiar with the language and features. But what do you do if you're a Dreamweaver lover? You write an extension, of course.
Today's developer has an incredible number of resources available to them. Tools, utilities, programming languages, and community all contribute to the process of crafting the elegant solutions to complex problems we are tasked with everyday. However, with this broad spectrum of resources comes a greater need to focus on what should be factored into the decision making process. While ColdFusion developers already have good tools and support to aid in this process, there is a void. This article introduces the cf_benchmark custom tag and benchmarking of ColdFusion code to the developer.
There is a feature of ColdFusion with the ability to help you be more productive, develop code consistently across all environments, and even offer some extra security for your source code. While I.m sure you can come up with at least ten features immediately in your head, I.d be willing to bet you didn.t guess ColdFusion mappings as one of them.