It’s funny the little things you miss as you use a programming language. Although not considered the longestamount of time, I have been using ColdFusion for over 4 years now. I’ve worked with CFC’s, frameworks, performance tuning, reflection, advanced Java techniques, and more, but somehow seemed to missed one of the most simple, yet useful little attributes (at least useful to me now).

Very frequently I find myself dumping out debug data to evaluate how the results of a given set of code is coming along. Good old is my friend in plenty of cases. How in the world, then, did I miss the **expand="no"** attribute? OMG! Whenever I'm dumping out large CFC structures, that puppy is my FRIEND! lol.

This, in my opinion, is one of the beauties of programming. Always learning something new.