One of my all-time favorite features in ColdFusion is “query of queries”. I have yet to see this functionality duplicated as thoroughly, or as easily, in any other language outside of SQL itself. Of course the limitation with SQL is that it generally operates on relational data stored in a relational database. The query of queries functionality changes that for ColdFusion developers.
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Among the countless new features offered by Flex 2 is constraints-based layout. If you haven’t had a chance to explore the use of constraints I encourage you to spend some time with the approach. I was a skeptic at first myself, but have since come to really enjoy the lightweight results (as compared to flow-based layout which generally involves deep nesting of boxes to achieve complex layouts). At the core of constraints-based layout is a series of properties that allow you to specify positioning and anchoring of your controls and containers.
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