Pat Santora (patweb99)

Lately I have been working with Spry and seeing all the amazing things it can do. Just the other day I was messing around with working with multiple nested data sets derived from a master data set and I thought I would share my experience. 

 All in all, it was fabulous. The way spry can work with nested data sets it top notch. I was able to pull one "master" data set, then build new nested data sets from that master. I was even able to build a nested data set from a nested data set... very very nice! After I had all my data sets I was able to use one region to display all of my information.

 I used Cold Fusion as the back end supplier of the data, but anything can be used.

 I have attached example code so you can see what I did. Download it here!

Building CFC's in my past I have always found it very difficult to ensure that all of my method variables were scoped properly. Ever had that problem? Well, problem be gone!

Mike Schierberl has built a beautiful tool called VarScoper. This tool scans all CFC's in a specific location, looks for any variables that have NOT been scoped properly, then gives you a very detailed report showing all un-scoped variables that it finds (all the way down to the line number!).

Ensuring there are no un-scoped variables is KEY when building any type of component based application, otherwise you will have thread safety issues and your site could easily stumble and fall. So go get it and make it part of your toolbox.