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iPhone 3G - One Week Review Of The Apple iPhone 3G Black 16 Gig Model
Posted: July 25, 2008 at 9:19 AM by Ben Nadel
So last week, I stood in the hot sun for a few hours to get my hands on the new Apple iPhone 3G Black, 16 Gig model. Luckily, I live in New York City and we actually have the 3G network... well, for the most part. For last few months, I've been using the generation one iPhone and have been fairly happy with it. I don't have internet at home, so th... read more »
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Six Months Of Epicenter Consulting
Posted: July 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM by Ben Nadel
This last week marks the sixth month anniversary of my time at Epicenter Consulting. For those of you who don't know, I left my position as CTO at Nylon Technology back in January to partner with Clark Valberg and create Epicenter Consulting . It was not an easy decision to make; I had been at Nylon for close to 5 years and had seen it grow fro... read more »
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OOPhoto - A Painful Transition To Object-Based Controllers
Posted: July 23, 2008 at 9:20 PM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . So this morning, I took OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming (OOP) in ColdFusion, and converted it from a CFM-based front controller to a ColdFusion-Component-based front controller methodology. As I di... read more »
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OOPhoto - Thoughts On The Massive Shift To Object-Based Controllers
Posted: July 21, 2008 at 9:47 PM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . As a next step in my OOPhoto application, Peter Bell and I thought it would be a good next step to convert from a standard CFM controller scheme to CFC-based controllers in which each controller is represented by a ColdFusion comp... read more »
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Chase Bank - Worst And Seemingly Most Insecure Telephone Interface Ever!
Posted: July 21, 2008 at 11:07 AM by Ben Nadel
I just got off the phone with Chase Bank . I haven't called them in a long time because overall my service has been really good. I don't know when they updated their telephone service, but this was so ridiculous that I needed say something. First of all, they want you so SAY all of your commands. I don't know if the number of people in this worl... read more »
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OOPhoto - Simple Service Objects In Place
Posted: July 21, 2008 at 9:23 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . Last week, I quickly coded the procedural version of OOPhoto , my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion. After getting some good feedback from Peter Bell , I decided that the easiest next step would ... read more »
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OOPhoto - Moving To OOP - Adding Service Objects
Posted: July 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . Yesterday morning, I launched phase one of OOPhoto , my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming (OOP) in ColdFusion. And, while this is an attempt at learning OOP, phase one consisted of a working application writt... read more »
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Ask Ben: Rendering Javascript Line Breaks
Posted: July 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM by Ben Nadel
Hi, I am learning Javascript and going through a self paced book. I am trying to use \n for new line in an example program, but it does not work. Here is the snippet: //Display the current date and time on the web page document.writeln(todays_date); if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { document.write("\nYou are running Micro... read more »
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OOPhoto - Starting Off Procedural Then Moving To Object Oriented
Posted: July 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The OOPhoto code for this post can be seen here . Over the past two weeks, I have been struggling to model the domain of OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion. After getting very caught up with analysis of the various layers of the OOPhoto... read more »
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ColdFusion 8.0.1 Bug Coldfusion.Image.ImageWriter $ ImageWritingException
Posted: July 17, 2008 at 9:34 AM by Ben Nadel
I just came across a known bug in ColdFusion 8.0.1. Apparently, sometimes the ColdFusion image functions don't play nicely with JPG image files and throw the following error: An exception occurred while trying to write the image. Ensure that the destination directory exists and that Coldfusion has permission to write to the given path or file. ca... read more »
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OOPhoto - Modeling The Domain In Steps (Round IV)
Posted: July 15, 2008 at 9:59 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . When I first started modeling the domain for OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion, I had thought that it was such a small application that it would be finished in one day. Now, here I am like a wee... read more »
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OOPhoto - Domain Modeling By Persona (Round III)
Posted: July 14, 2008 at 10:14 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . As you know, I have been struggling to wrap my small, procedural mind around the domain model of OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in ColdFusion. I started out with what I referred to as the " basic dom... read more »
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OOPhoto - Revisualizing The Application Layers
Posted: July 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . I've spent the last few posts trying to model the OOPhoto domain and have found this to be extremely challenging. Aside from the fact that I am stepping foot in a world that is totally new to me, I think part of what has made it so diffi... read more »
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OOPhoto - Modeling The Domain In Steps (Round II)
Posted: July 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM by Ben Nadel
The latest OOPhoto application can be experienced here . The latest OOPhoto code can be seen here . Yesterday , I got through modeling some of the more basic, obvious domain objects in OOPhoto, my latest attempt at learning object oriented programming in ColdFusion. I realized that domain modeling, even for such a simple application, is f... read more »
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ColdFusion Functions Declared Inside CFScript Have Output
Posted: July 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM by Ben Nadel
Last night, I was talking shop with Simon Free . He mentioned that he always writes his ColdFusion user defined functions (UDFs) in CFScript tags. I argued that if you do that, you have no control over things like output. To this he said, "Of course you do, CFScript tags don't have output unless you use WriteOutput()." But then, I was asked, "Wha... read more »
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Previously Posted
OOPhoto - Modeling The Domain In Steps (Round I) - Posted Jul 10, 2008
I Won Steven Levithan's Regular Expression Contest! - Posted Jul 9, 2008
OOPhoto - Annotating The User Interface Before Designing The Domain Model - Posted Jul 8, 2008
Ask Ben: Getting Dynamic References To XML Nodes And Setting Text Values In ColdFusion - Posted Jul 8, 2008
OOPhoto Prototype - Understanding The Interface Before Defining The Domain Model - Posted Jul 7, 2008
More Thoughts On MVC, OOP, And Form Submissions In ColdFusion - Posted Jul 3, 2008
Happy July 4th From Kinky Solutions - Posted Jul 3, 2008
I Helped To Set A World Record - Posted Jul 3, 2008
OOPhoto - Another Attempt At Learning Object Oriented Programming (OOP) In ColdFusion - Posted Jul 1, 2008
Ask Ben: Streaming Binary Data From The Database (BLOB) To The User Using ColdFusion - Posted Jun 30, 2008
Setting Form EncType Dynamically To Multipart/Form-Data In IE (Internet Explorer) - Posted Jun 27, 2008
Tracking Delta-Only Data Audits In ColdFusion Using XML - Posted Jun 27, 2008
Tracking Data Audits In ColdFusion - Posted Jun 25, 2008
Be Careful Using "#" In ColdFusion DE() Expressions - Posted Jun 24, 2008
CFUNITED 2008 - So Many Great People - Posted Jun 23, 2008
Katie Maher Rocked My World - Posted Jun 19, 2008
ColdFusion CFQueryParam Varchar-List Puts In Single Quotes For You - Posted Jun 17, 2008
Inconsistent Stack Height 1 != 0 NULL - Posted Jun 17, 2008
Multi-Step Form Demo In ColdFusion - Posted Jun 16, 2008
Partial Entry For Steve Levithan's Regular Expression Contest - Posted Jun 13, 2008
Ask Ben: Create A New XML Document Based On A Child Node Of An Existing XML Document - Posted Jun 12, 2008
ColdFusion CFCatch Tags Catch Exceptions Based On Type Hierarchy - Posted Jun 11, 2008
POI Utility Now Has ColdFusion MX7 Compatible Tags (Thanks Dan Wilson!) - Posted Jun 10, 2008
jQuery UI 1.5 Released, Focus On Consistent API And Effects - Posted Jun 9, 2008
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Starring Harrison Ford - Posted Jun 8, 2008
Sex And The City Movie Staring Sarah Jessica Parker - Posted Jun 8, 2008
POI Utility Freeze Frames, Bug Fixes, And Branded Templates - Posted Jun 6, 2008
jQuery 1.2.6 Even Better! - Posted Jun 6, 2008
Not Commenting And The Tipping Point Of Poor Programming - Posted Jun 5, 2008
SQL Join Table vs. SQL Entity Table And When To Switch - Posted Jun 5, 2008
My Interview With Christian Ready - CFUNITED 2007 - Posted Jun 4, 2008
You Cannot Delete Application.cfc Methods In The Pseudo Constructor - Posted Jun 4, 2008
Ask Ben: Splitting And Joining Large Binary Files Using Buffers In ColdFusion - Posted Jun 3, 2008
Downloading Email Attachments With CFPop And CFThread - Posted Jun 2, 2008
Bigger, Stronger, Faster - The Side Effects Of Being American - Posted May 31, 2008
National Regular Expression Day And Reflections On My Own Journey - Posted May 30, 2008
Ask Ben: Dynamically Executing ColdFusion Application.cfc Instances - Posted May 30, 2008
POIUtility.cfc - "Too Many Fonts / Formats" Issue Fixed - Posted May 29, 2008
HotFix For "The ColdFusion Mail Spool Encountered An Invalid Spool File In The Spool Directory" - Posted May 29, 2008
ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo - Posted May 28, 2008
