This morning I read an article on Michael Hyatt's blog by Jon Acuff, the author of Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job, in which he said something that really inspired me. He begins the article by talking about a recent experience he had as a guest on Dave Ramsey's radio show. He mentions how nervous he was and how he felt like he doesn't do such a great job when he's on the radio, especially compared to Dave, who just seems so calm and natural doing the show. After the show Jon came to the realization that, while this was only his second time on the radio show, Dave has been doing it for 17 years. That's when he came up with this principle:

"Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle."

That is a powerful statement, and one that I think we should pay attention to as software developers.

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Right after the OpenCF Summit earlier this year, I read a few blog posts in which people mention the topic of "More Apps, Not Frameworks" (or something along those lines). If you haven't heard about it, this is basically the idea that CFML already has enough solid frameworks out there, and we don't need any more. What we need are more free, open source CFML apps that can help spread the use of CFML. Now, I'm not here to argue or debate whether or not we need more frameworks or not, the point of this post is to simply ask one question. If we do start building more and more open source CFML applications, should we use frameworks for those applications?

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Here's the full article, with links to a more detailed article.

How bad is it when the best fix for problems with one of your services is to recommend people use a competitor's product?

The more I use IIS 7 on my local development machine, the more I like it (compared to previous versions of IIS). I have to say that Microsoft really did a good job on fixing some of the problems that made IIS a hindrance to local web development. The two most notable features that I've discovered in the last few weeks are the ability for it to have multiple local websites (unlimited websites, actually), and built in local self-signed SSL certificates.

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This is a recap of how I spent my entire morning. While I'm sure it will be amusing to some, hopefully one day it will be of use to someone in the same situation. Who am I kidding? No one's going to be in this same situation...I'm putting this here to remind me what to do the next time this happens to me!

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I have some confusion on caching a query from inside a component, so this post is really just a call-out to the CFML community to help me figure it out. In a nutshell, here's my question: Can you cache a query if it's in the "var" scope of a CFC? Before you answer, let me elaborate a little to explain my thoughts on the subject.

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