I think I ran across that guy once (lol). IMO, loading anything other the absolute minimum required info to identify a unique session into session variables is bad coding practice.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Robert Harrison <rob...@austin-williams.com> wrote: > > I'm an old school programmer who watches every bit and byte and really > practices resource management in my coding practices. > > I've got a new programmer working for me (on contract) and I'm finding he's > using session Vars all over the place. He creating session Vars on forms that > have a hundred fields, he putting arrays into session Vars, etc. I just went > through a few of the programs he wrote and used them, then I dumped my > session vars and found I had over 250 session vars from just using a few > programs. Considering the site has over 1,000 users on it at any given > moment, I'm very concerned about this practice. > > Am I nuts, or is this just bad? > > Thanks, > Robert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349687 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
