Helper Class Anti-pattern

 Read http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmalik/archive/2005/09/06/461404.aspx

E.g. rather than create a helper class to be used for url-encoding, create, inject, and use a URL object:

"Encoding a URL is part of a URL object"

SQL Antipatterns

Read it and weep: http://www.slideshare.net/billkarwin/sql-antipatterns-strike-back

Ritchie on C

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html

Singletons in ColdFusion

http://coldfusiondesignpatterns.org/singleton.html

On how ColdSpring and Dependency Injection may facilitate the Singleton pattern in a CFML application.

Coding Horror on HttpOnly

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/08/protecting-your-cookies-httponly.html

How using HttpOnly flag in the header instructs browser that only the server (and not malicious javascript) can access this cookie.

The risk is that an XSS post when loaded can forward an authentication cookie to a remote site where it can be used to steal your identity by a malicous user who is able to load the site that issued the cookie under your identity.

Hungarian Notation vs. Sigils

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation