June 2007 Web Log Entries
Off To CFUNITED And Girls On Trampolines
Posted: June 26, 2007 at 3:07 PM by Ben Nadel
Alright, time to get myself down to CFUNITED. Not sure what kind of internet access I will have down there so it's possible that I won't get any emails until Saturday morning back in New York City. So, sorry ahead of time for the slow responses. So, in the tradition of the Man Show, I now leave you with Girls on Trampolines. ... read more »
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My First jQuery Plugin
Posted: June 26, 2007 at 9:41 AM by Ben Nadel
Last night, I was trying to help Glen Lipka write a jQuery plugin. I love love love jQuery, but I have never written a jQuery plugin, so at first, I was very confused as to what was going on. After a while, I started to get my bearings, figuring out what THIS pointed to, and what I had access to, and all that jazz. Still, I am not sure that I am... read more »
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Why Do I Even Get Any Huge Ass Traffic?
Posted: June 26, 2007 at 8:42 AM by Ben Nadel
There was a post yesterday on Full As A Goog (sorry I cannot remember the URL - the Full As A Goog "Search" functionality seems to search the visible page only) with a video that had information about internet porn. It stated that there were literally hundred of millions of porn sites current on the internet. That's a lot of porn. Recently, I ... read more »
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I Got Fever And The Only Prescription Is More Peter Bell
Posted: June 25, 2007 at 2:58 PM by Ben Nadel
That is, of course, a paraphrasing of the cult classic, Christopher Walken - More Cowbell. But, that aside, I wanted to give a shout out to Peter Bell for a tremendous first year of blogging about ColdFusion and Application Generation. A lot of what Peter talks about on his blog goes a bit beyond my understanding of programming; but, this can on... read more »
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Lenny And Bo, ColdFusion Programmers (Vol. 22)
Posted: June 25, 2007 at 10:24 AM by Ben Nadel
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Hostel II Is Terrifyingly Boring
Posted: June 25, 2007 at 9:26 AM by Ben Nadel
I went to see Hostel II over the weekend and I thought I would send out a warning - if you are planning on seeing it, DON'T! It is insanely boring. I was looking at the reviews and people seem to think this one is sadistic and evil and pushes the envelope even further than the first one. This could not be farther from the truth. Now, don't get me ... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 8: CFZip Part II - Zipping Files And Directories With CFZipParam
Posted: June 25, 2007 at 7:30 AM by Ben Nadel
In the first part of this tutorial , we explored the ways in which the ColdFusion 8 CFZip tag, when used alone, can zip both files and entire directories into archives. Now, let's take a look at the ColdFusion 8 CFZipParam tag in the context of archive creation. The CFZipParam tag is a child of the CFZip tag and gives us even more power over what... read more »
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Sending (SMS) Picture Messages With ColdFusion And CFMail
Posted: June 25, 2007 at 7:20 AM by Ben Nadel
A while back, I talked about sending text messages (SMS messages) to mobile phones using ColdFusion and CFMail. Well, walking down the street today, surrounding by young woman in scantily clad summer outfits, I wondered if the same could be done with picture messages (PIX Messages). At first, I tried to send a picture to my VText email address u... read more »
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Downloading PDFs Of The ColdFusion Developer's Journal
Posted: June 23, 2007 at 6:07 PM by Ben Nadel
I just found out that you could download the ColdFusion Developer's Journal issues as PDFs. I am probably like a million years behind everyone on this, but I was reading a blog entry this last week about the video ads on CFDJ (sorry, I cannot remember which blog) and someone commented that you hate the video ads, you could just download the PDFs d... read more »
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Ask Ben: Passing ColdFusion Structs And Arrays In The URL
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 4:41 PM by Ben Nadel
I was wondering is there any way to pass an entire structure or array via a url parameter? I think I remember reading that you can but when I try to pass all form fields like this http://www.mysite.com?MyForm=#Form# (I understand that #form# would be the entire form scope structure) it does not work. Am I doing something wrong? URL values are jus... read more »
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Come Work With Me At Nylon Technology (NYC ColdFusion Job Opportunity)
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 11:28 AM by Ben Nadel
My employer, Nylon Technology, now has employment opportunities available in the New York City area. If you read my blog and like what I do and think you might want to work along side me (or if you simply want a ColdFusion job), check out the job description below: Nylon Technology www.nylontechnology.com About Us We are a New York City-b... read more »
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Lenny And Bo, ColdFusion Programmers (Vol. 21)
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 8:40 AM by Ben Nadel
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CFUNITED Just Days Away - Do You Even Know What I Look Like?
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 8:25 AM by Ben Nadel
With CFUNITED just days away, the little hairs on the back of my neck are standing up going wooo-wooo. For those of you who don't know, I will be attending CFUNITED this year for the first time. In fact, this is really my first ColdFusion conference of any kind, unless you count CFUNITED Express NYC - which was really just part of this conference ... read more »
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Barney Boisvert Wins The Open Source Code Contest And A Nintendo Wii
Posted: June 22, 2007 at 7:37 AM by Ben Nadel
I just wanted to congratulate Barney Boisvert on his taking first place in the CFUNITED Open Source Code Off Contest with his Schema Management Tool. As described by Barney, his project is: A simple schema management tool. You write your database mods into migration scripts (CFCs), and then the tool manages application of the scripts on an as-n... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 8: CFZip Part I - Zipping Files And Directories With CFZip
Posted: June 21, 2007 at 2:52 PM by Ben Nadel
Before ColdFusion 8, if we needed to create or extract ZIP archives in ColdFusion, we had to mess around with the Java zip libraries. As you can see from things like my ZipUtility.cfc ColdFusion component , the Java zip libraries can give us a lot of power, but they are not the easiest things to work with. ColdFusion 8 has really made it a priori... read more »
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