Ask Ben Blog Posts by Ben Nadel

This is everything that I have ever written about Ask Ben. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm about to stop any time soon. I'm only getting warmed up!

December 2024

• Ask Ben: Sorting Quasi-Numeric Values Like 4K And 3M In ColdFusion

March 2024

• Ask Ben: Fisher-Yates Shuffle Algorithm In ColdFusion

June 2022

• Ask Ben: Extending A ColdFusion Session On A Long-Lived Page

February 2022

• Ask Ben: Grouping Query Output By Column Value In ColdFusion

January 2022

• Ask Ben: Converting An XML Document Into A Nested ColdFusion Struct

June 2011

• Ask Ben: When To Provide Default Values In ColdFusion

October 2010

• Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document

March 2010

• Ask Ben: Processing Files With CFThread In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Blocking WSDL Access In A ColdFusion Application

February 2010

• Ask Ben: Replacing A String That Is Not Inside Of Another String

December 2009

• Ask Ben: Using jQuery To Act On A Click Event Based On The Target Element
• Ask Ben: Using ColdFusion Components As Return Types, Argument Types, And Property Types
• Ask Ben: Showing Related Form Fields Based On A Given Selection

September 2009

• Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)
• Ask Ben: Parsing Nested Lists With A Single Delimiter In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Excluding Script Tag Content From The jQuery .text() Method
• Ask Ben: Creating ColdFusion Templates On The Fly
• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

August 2009

• Ask Ben: Extracting And Resizing A ZIP Archive Full Of Images With Coldfusion
• Ask Ben: Keeping Close Track Of Who Is Currently Online
• Ask Ben: Getting The Domain Name From The Referer URL

July 2009

• Ask Ben: Enforcing An SSL (HTTPS) Connection Based On Request
• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc
• Ask Ben: CFImage And Dynamic Image Compression With File Size Limits
• Ask Ben: Building A jQuery And ColdFusion Rating System

June 2009

• Ask Ben: Overriding Core jQuery Methods
• Ask Ben: Detecting When DOM Elements Have Been Removed With jQuery
• Ask Ben: Formatting A Date Span In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Converting Javascript Variables Into ColdFusion Variables
• Ask Ben: Dynamic Form Field Population With jQuery

May 2009

• Ask Ben: Collecting And Relating Sibling XML Nodes In A ColdFusion XML Document
• Ask Ben: Print Part Of A Web Page With jQuery
• Ask Ben: Selecting XML Nodes That Have A Given Parent Node Using XPath
• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

April 2009

• Ask Ben: Manually Enforcing Basic HTTP Authorization In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Changing The Root Node In A ColdFusion XML Document
• Ask Ben: Accessing Cached CFCs With AJAX via Remote Proxies

March 2009

• Ask Ben: Using jQuery's triggerHandler() To Skip Default Behaviors
• Ask Ben: Building An AJAX, jQuery, And ColdFusion Powered Application

February 2009

• Ask Ben: Parsing CSV Strings With Javascript Exec() Regular Expression Command
• Ask Ben: Cross-Site AJAX Requests Using jQuery And ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Using Regular Expressions To Parse Data In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Parsing String Data Using Javascript's String Replace() Method
• Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase
• Finding The Distance Between Latitude / Longitude Locations In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Selecting Random Values Without Repetition In ColdFusion

January 2009

• Ask Ben: Displaying The Next Hidden Element Using jQuery (Update)
• Ask Ben: Sending Emails Based On XML Contact Data In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array In jQuery, One Index Per Click
• Ask Ben: Creating Single Location Logins
• Ask Ben: Securely Pinging One ColdFusion Application From Another
• Ask Ben: Removing Duplicate List Items While Maintaining Original List Order
• Ask Ben: Maintaining Case Of XML Attributes In Manually Created ColdFusion XML Documents

December 2008

• Ask Ben: Handling Optional XML Nodes In WhitePages.com API Response
• Ask Ben: Extracting Data With Regular Expressions vs. ColdFusion List Functions
• Ask Ben: Creating A Fixed-Field-Width Data File With ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Posting XML And File Data With ColdFusion And CFHttp
• Ask Ben: Get Arguments For ColdFusion User Defined Functions

November 2008

• Ask Ben: Checking Domain Name Availability Using ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Sorting A Sub-Tree Of An XML Document Using ColdFusion And XSLT
• Ask Ben: Limiting The Number Of Simultaneous Users For A Given IP Address
• Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array With jQuery
• Ask Ben: Hiding Customer-Specific Image Paths
• Ask Ben: Dynamic Table Names In ColdFusion Queries
• Ask Ben: Flagging Threaded Discussions As New Or Unread
• Ask Ben: Getting The Start And End Dates Of The Previous Week In ColdFusion

October 2008

• Ask Ben: Redirecting Users To A Random Page
• Ask Ben: Dynamically Adding File Upload Fields To A Form Using jQuery
• Ask Ben: Instantiating Nested Java Classes In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: What I Look For In A Potential Employee - Passion

September 2008

• Ask Ben: Optimizing Form Inputs For Numeric Keypad Usage
• Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Unknown Number Of Nested Lists
• Ask Ben: Optimizing Tables For Printing
• Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion

August 2008

• Ask Ben: Displaying And Formatting The Difference Between Two Dates
• Ask Ben: Updating An Excel Document More Than Once With The POI Utility
• Ask Ben: Moving Decimal Places And Formatting Numbers

July 2008

• Ask Ben: Rendering Javascript Line Breaks
• Ask Ben: Getting Dynamic References To XML Nodes And Setting Text Values In ColdFusion

June 2008

• Ask Ben: Create A New XML Document Based On A Child Node Of An Existing XML Document
• Ask Ben: Splitting And Joining Large Binary Files Using Buffers In ColdFusion

May 2008

• Ask Ben: Dynamically Executing ColdFusion Application.cfc Instances
• Ask Ben: Working With Lists In An Object Oriented Programming Application

March 2008

• Ask Ben: Extending Application.cfc And OnRequestStart() With SUPER

January 2008

• Ask Ben: Simple Data Caching In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Ending ColdFusion Session When User Closes Browser
• Ask Ben: Delete Values In A Given List Using ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Screen Scraping PowerBall Statistics With ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Querying Groups With Conditional Elements
• Ask Ben: Uploading Multiple Files Using ColdFusion
• Posting File Data Using A Base64 Encoding In ColdFusion

December 2007

• Ask Ben: Breaking An SMS Text Message Up Into Multiple Parts
• Ask Ben: Converting XML Data To ColdFusion Queries
• Ask Ben: Recursive Numeric Pyramid
• Ask Ben: Simple Recursion Example

November 2007

• Ask Ben: Running ColdFusion Asynchronously - Caveman Style
• Ask Ben: Iterating Over A ColdFusion XML Document
• Ask Ben: Zipping Images With ColdFusion 8's CFZip And CFHttp
• Ask Ben: Parsing A Microsoft XML Rowset Into A ColdFusion Query

October 2007

• Ask Ben: Closing XHTML Tags In A Truncated Message

September 2007

• Ask Ben: Pulling SQL Records Based On A List Of IDs
• Ask Ben: Testing For ColdFusion Session Management

August 2007

• Ask Ben: Handling Redirects With ColdFusion CFHttp
• Ask Ben: Handling Errors With ColdFusion CFError
• Ask Ben: Spoofing Referrer With ColdFusion 8 CFImage Tag
• Ask Ben: Printing Shipping Labels With ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Forward ColdFusion Requests To Another Domain
• Ask Ben: Environment-Based Application.cfc Settings

July 2007

• Ask Ben: Finding The Last Monday Of The Month In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Protecting Database Table Names In ColdFusion CFQuery
• Ask Ben: Parsing Microsoft Word XML Into A Useful ColdFusion XML Document
• Ask Ben: Keeping Parallel Sessions Alive In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Getting the Previous Day In ColdFusion, Excluding Saturday And Sunday
• Ask Ben: Upload And Email File Using ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Displaying A Modified Detroit Calendar Schedule

June 2007

• Ask Ben: Passing ColdFusion Structs And Arrays In The URL
• Ask Ben: Hiding / Encrypting ColdFusion CFID And CFTOKEN Values

May 2007

• Ask Ben: Getting The Date Based On The Year And Week In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP
• Ask Ben: Tracking File Downloads In ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Getting Query String Values In JavaScript
• Ask Ben: Shifting ColdFusion's DayOfWeek() Functionality
• Ask Ben: Truncating The Event Titles In A Calendar Display
• Ask Ben: Adding A Column From Second Query To First Query
• Ask Ben: Limit File Upload Size In ColdFusion

April 2007

• Ask Ben: Displaying A Simple Event Calendar Month With ColdFusion
• Ask Ben: Creating A Simple Wish List / Shopping Cart
• Ask Ben: Limiting The Amount Of Time A Block Of Code Can Run (Attempt II)
• Ask Ben: Limiting The Amount Of Time A Block Of Code Can Run

March 2007

• Ask Ben: ColdFusion Variable Caching And How To Use It (Simple Demo)
• Ask Ben: Getting CSS Class Names From My CSS Data
• Ask Ben: CFTry / CFCatch Issues
• Ask Ben: Displaying A Query Vertically Instead Of Horizontally

February 2007

• Ask Ben: Creating An Archive Folder / File List (Part II)
• Ask Ben: Form Processing Demo With Anti-Spam Features
• Ask Ben: Using POI Utility To Move Excel Data Into A Database

January 2007

• Ask Ben: Cleaning Two Digit Years Using Javascript And Regular Expressions
• Ask Ben: Creating An Archive Folder / File List

December 2006

• Ask Ben: Looping From 'A' To 'Z' In ColdFusion

October 2006

• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude
• ColdFusion CFQuery Tag To Pull From Two Data Sources (a.k.a. Faking It With Bad Programming)
• Ask Ben: Looping Through The Days In A Month
• Ask Ben: Getting A Random Date From A Date Range In SQL
• Ask Ben: Testing The Existence Of A Query Column In CFScript
• Ask Ben: Iterating Over The Characters In A String

September 2006

• Ask Ben: ColdFusion Optimization, A Case Study

August 2006

• Ask Ben: Counting Spaces In A Given String
• Ask Ben: Grabbing Google Results with CFHttp
• Ask Ben: Creating Large Random Strings In Javascript

July 2006

• Ask Ben: Averaging Date/Time Stamps In SQL
• Ask Ben: Selecting Parts of a Date/Time Stamp In SQL
• Ask Ben: Processing A Query In Java
• Ask Ben: Appending Times To Date/Time Objects
• Ask Ben: Javascript String Replace Method
• Ask Ben: Checking The ColdFusion Version
• Ask Ben: CFHttp For Web Mining And Image Hot Linking
• Ask Ben: Comparing Only Times in SQL
• Ask Ben: Converting a Query to an Array