Two of the most common debugging tasks are displaying variables and identifying bottlenecks. For years I relied on CFDUMP and CFABORT to display variables and getTickCount() to calculate processing time and identify slow-running code.

Debugging. That necessary evil that none of us dare turn on in our production environments unless it is absolutely necessary. We all wonder what all that stuff does don't we? Well, let's investigate what some of it does, and what it means.

'Sorry about that Adam, we'll have to take a deeper look at it. Uh-huh. Yeah. No, I totally understand. Okay then, I'll give you a call if I still can't replicate the problem.'