Recent Web Log Entries By Ben Nadel
How To UN-Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)
Posted: November 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM by Ben Nadel
After my previous post on how to quickly and easily take my style of formatting and strip it out of ColdFusion code , some people suggested that I make a function that goes back the other way (adding my style of formatting into ColdFusion code). While I love this concept, the problem is actually quite a bear! Removing formatting doesn't really re... read more »
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How To Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)
Posted: November 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM by Ben Nadel
At this past CFUNITED, big Dan Vega told me about a little project he wanted to show in the Demo Derby. The conversation went a little something like this (in meaning, not word for word): Ben, I love using your code; but I hate that it takes me 30 minutes to remove all of your freaking formatting. So, I'm trying to create a ColdFusion Builder (... read more »
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Matching Multi-Line Regular Expression Patterns In MULTILINE Mode (?m)
Posted: November 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM by Ben Nadel
This morning, I was (and am still) having a problem getting some MULTILINE regular expression patterns to match properly. As such, I wanted to put a quick blog post together as a sanity check for myself. As I have blogged about before , when a Java regular expression is running in multiline mode (as denoted by the "?m" flag), the "^" and "$" expr... read more »
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Tracking Request Volume Based On IP Addresses In ColdFusion
Posted: November 4, 2009 at 2:44 PM by Ben Nadel
This much less a "how to" post and much more just a " thinking out loud " post. I don't really know if I even like what I came up with; but, I figured I would put it out here in case it lead to some good conversations. In the wake of some spam comments on my site, I started to think about tracking the IP addresses of requests in ColdFusion in orde... read more »
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IIS MOD-Rewrite: R6016 Not Enough Space For Thread Data
Posted: November 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM by Ben Nadel
This is just a quick note to anyone who comes across this error. I just upgraded my blog to use IIS MOD-Rewrite using the PATH_INFO approach and when I started running the IIS MOD-Rewrite installer on my server, I got the following Microsoft Visual C++ RunTime error: R6016 Not Enough Space For Thread Data The IIS service was running at the t... read more »
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Using IIS URL Rewriting And CGI.PATH_INFO With IIS MOD-Rewrite
Posted: November 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM by Ben Nadel
Previously, I explored the concept of using URL rewriting with IIS and IIS MOD-Rewrite in order to make ColdFusion's OnMissingTemplate() event handler more effective . This worked fine with some fenagling, but Justice suggested that I take a look at using PATH_INFO. I've only briefly looked into PATH_INFO before, but one thing that I do like ab... read more »
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A Moment That Touched Me - The Fountainhead
Posted: November 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM by Ben Nadel
I'm in between audio books right now, so I'm listening to bits and pieces of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. I can't quite articulate why I love the book so much, but I find it to be hugely moving and inspiring. This morning, on the way to work, I listening to a passage that almost moved me to tears. Out of context, it might not have much meaning; bu... read more »
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Using Regular Expressions In Javascript (A General Overview)
Posted: November 2, 2009 at 10:07 AM by Ben Nadel
I love regular expressions; they are the cat's pajamas. I find that hardly a day goes by where I don't use them in some way to solve a problem. But, as much as I love them, there has always been something about using them in Javascript that has felt a bit shaky. I think it's simply that I didn't have a fleshed out understanding of the full breadth... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 9: Iterating Over Pseudo XML Node Wrappers With CFLoop
Posted: October 31, 2009 at 1:24 PM by Ben Nadel
For several versions of ColdFusion, we have been able to reference groups of XML nodes using pseudo node wrappers and struct and array notation. This has been a useful shorthand when extracting node data from an XML document; but, about two years ago, I found out that these pseudo node wrappers could not be used in conjunction with ColdFusion 8's... read more »
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Building A Fixed-Position Bottom Menu Bar (ala FaceBook)
Posted: October 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM by Ben Nadel
Now that I've explored two ways of creating fixed-position elements across browsers - using IE6 expressions and absolute layouts - I wanted to give a go at creating a fixed-position bottom menu bar, ala FaceBook. The menu bar isn't going to contain much of anything - just a single button and a pop-up menu; mostly, I wanted to see how easily I ... read more »
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Using PushStack() In jQuery Plugins To Create New Collections
Posted: October 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM by Ben Nadel
Most of the time, when creating a plugin in jQuery, I'll leverage built-in functions like filter() and each() to select from or alter the current collection. Plugins that are built in this fashion are auto-wired to have the appropriate stack connections; that is, since jQuery performs non-destructive collection augmentation, when you use a plugin ... read more »
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Caching ColdFusion Component Methods Has Negligible Performance Improvements
Posted: October 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM by Ben Nadel
One thing that I find intriguing about inheritance in Javascript is that it is object-based. Meaning, you inherent from an actual object instance, not from a class. This is known as Prototypal inheritance, sometimes referred as differential inheritance, in which your class contains only that which differs from your prototype object. In this form o... read more »
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jQuery Powered Mine Sweeper Game
Posted: October 27, 2009 at 10:17 AM by Ben Nadel
While I was on the road going from CFinNC to BFusion / BFLEX, I tinkered around with some jQuery code. I wanted to try and make something fun but not something that would take too much time (since being on the road is exhausting). And so, I created this jQuery powered Mine Sweeper game. Much like the old computer game, you can select the number of... read more »
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My BFusion / BFLEX Keynote Address
Posted: October 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM by Ben Nadel
I just finished my portion of the BFusion / BFLEX keynote address and got some really great feedback. A few people even asked for a copy of my speech. Here is what I wrote: . . . A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting hosted by the NYCUPA, which is the New York City chapter of the UPA - the Usability Professional's Association. This particular ... read more »
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Using CSS Fixed Position Elements Across Browsers Without Javascript
Posted: October 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM by Ben Nadel
Yesterday, I posted my first experimentation with CSS fixed-position elements and getting them to work across all browsers, including IE6. The solution I demonstrated yesterday involved using proprietary Javascript expressions in the CSS that would be used by IE6; this technique worked pretty well, but caused a jittery effect as the "fixed" posi... read more »
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Previously Posted
Using CSS Fixed Position Elements Across Browsers - Posted Oct 15, 2009
jQuery In Action By Bear Bibeault And Yehuda Katz - Posted Oct 14, 2009
THIS, Function Context, And Object Literals In Javascript - Posted Oct 13, 2009
jQuery Plugin: From - Filtering A Collection Based On Ancestors - Posted Oct 12, 2009
Building Single-Page Applications Using jQuery And ColdFusion With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation) - Posted Oct 9, 2009
Passing A Function To jQuery's Attr() Method For Implicit Iteration - Posted Oct 7, 2009
jQuery's Closest() Method Returns Only One Ancestor - Posted Oct 6, 2009
Viewing jQuery DOM Event Bindings With FireBug - Posted Oct 5, 2009
Adobe Officially Releases ColdFusion 9 - The Newest, Most Powerful ColdFusion Server (Saucy) - Posted Oct 5, 2009
jQuery's is() Method Checks For Any Matching Elements - Posted Oct 1, 2009
Using Javascript's IN Operator To Test For Object Property Existence - Posted Oct 1, 2009
Parsing Invalid HTML Into XML Using ColdFusion, Groovy, And TagSoup - Posted Sep 30, 2009
Thoroughly Document Your Use Of ColdFusion's CFHTMLHead Tag - Posted Sep 29, 2009
Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone - Posted Sep 29, 2009
jQuery's Filter() Method Can Take A Callback Function For Advanced Filtering - Posted Sep 25, 2009
jQuery's Passes Itself As An Argument To The "Ready" Event Callback - Posted Sep 24, 2009
Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words) - Posted Sep 23, 2009
Ask Ben: Parsing Nested Lists With A Single Delimiter In ColdFusion - Posted Sep 22, 2009
Ask Ben: Excluding Script Tag Content From The jQuery .text() Method - Posted Sep 22, 2009
Ask Ben: Creating ColdFusion Templates On The Fly - Posted Sep 21, 2009
Groovy Operator Overloading Does Not Work In The ColdFusion Context - Posted Sep 18, 2009
jQuery Enlightenment By Cody Lindley - Posted Sep 18, 2009
Instantiating Groovy Classes In The ColdFusion Context - Posted Sep 17, 2009
Returning An Array From jQuery's Map() Utility Function - Posted Sep 16, 2009
jQuery Plugin: Tracing Your Selector Paths - Posted Sep 15, 2009
String Data Type Gotcha When Using CFGroovy - Posted Sep 14, 2009
Ask Ben: Updating Columns In An Existing ColdFusion Query Object - Posted Sep 14, 2009
Running UPDATE And DELETE SQL Statements Using ColdFusion Query Of Queries - Posted Sep 12, 2009
Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies - Posted Sep 10, 2009
Using Contextual SMS Short Code Messages With TextMarks And ColdFusion - Posted Sep 10, 2009
Using SMS Short Codes And TextMarks To Send Text Messages With ColdFusion - Posted Sep 9, 2009
Simon Free Launches "Win A CF Dude" Contest - Watch The Video - Posted Sep 9, 2009
How Much Should Our ColdFusion Applications Actually Know About ORM? - Posted Sep 8, 2009
Using IIS URL Rewriting And Application.cfc's OnMissingTemplate() Event Handler - Posted Sep 8, 2009
Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion - Posted Sep 4, 2009
RewriteCond Directives Evaluated After RewriteRule Directives In URL Rewriting - Posted Sep 4, 2009
Understanding The IIS Mod-Rewrite Server Variables - Posted Sep 3, 2009
Understanding The IIS Mod-Rewrite Log File And Work Flow - Posted Sep 3, 2009
Exploring IIS Mod-Rewrite For Rewriting URLs In A ColdFusion Application - Posted Sep 1, 2009
Ask Ben: Extracting And Resizing A ZIP Archive Full Of Images With Coldfusion - Posted Aug 31, 2009
