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• DreamWeaver CS3 Slows Me Down

  Posted on Jan 30, 2010 at 10:01 PM

  they will once they figure out that a Java editor is meant just for that. it stinks.... read more »

• DreamWeaver CS3 Slows Me Down

  Posted on Jan 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM

  I think I will wait for CFB 5 when it is a complete rewrite not based on Eclipse. :) I still think they need to open source Homesite or CF Studio. Rather someone take that over and charge $100 for it than use CFB for free. (which we know it won't be)... read more »

• NYC + Snow + ColdFusion + jQuery = Winter Wonderland

  Posted on Dec 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM

  haha,ur a nerd. lol. man, i moved to get away from that stuff. NYC is gonna come to a screeching halt now.... read more »

• How To Unformat Your Code (Like A Pro)

  Posted on Nov 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM

  I think it would be way easier to just use this http://www.logichammer.com/html-formatter/ He just released v3 and it rocks.... read more »

• Project HUGE: Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein - The Best Tasting, Best Mixing Protein Powder

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM

  same one i use. I mix the extreme milk chocolate and banana and it's pretty decent. Also tried cookies & cream. Not bad, but it's still a protein shake.... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM

  [arnold voice]You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last[/arnold voice]... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM

  you should have added that you got up and walked out with his girlfriend. haha.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM

  I am still waiting for the example with absolute path calculated. ;)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM

  @Doug, are you saying it's not best practice to mimic your Live environment to DEV and QA and/or staging? If so, I completely disagree. I think they need to mimic each other as best as possible. I know in a personal dev enviroment ur not going to have QA and staging most likely, but in a Enterpri... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM

  I guessed too many ppl were pissed that they did that in XP. So they removed the limitation. Also, I believe they didn't want ppl buying XP to use as server OS. ppl won't do that with Vista. Too much overhead.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM

  oh, i should mention, I am using Vista. No IIS site limitations. If you are on XP, move along, nothing to see here. Are you using XP?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM

  Using IIS for the most part. My dev and live environments will usually mimic each other as much as possible. I always use a host name on dev like http://site1 http://site2 and use the hosts file to point them all to 127.0.0.1 and put a host header in IIS for each site. So /images i... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: IsNull() And Working With NULL Values

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 10:55 AM

  Would have been nice of them to make an isEmpty() like PHP. Could stop using Len(Trim())... read more »

• Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM

  I always use absolute path on my assets.... read more »

• Am I The Only One Who Likes White Space In My ColdFusion Code?

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 12:01 AM

  meh, that didn't work out, was supposed to be tons of space, but u get the idea. would love to see the code tho.... read more »

• Am I The Only One Who Likes White Space In My ColdFusion Code?

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 12:01 AM

  Well ya, that's a given. ;) cfoutput var var /cfoutput lol... read more »

• Am I The Only One Who Likes White Space In My ColdFusion Code?

  Posted on Jul 19, 2009 at 11:44 PM

  But the rendered output white space is a direct correlation to the code wouldn't you say? Obviously not using cfsilent, cfprocessingdirective or any such white space reduction mgmt.... read more »

• Am I The Only One Who Likes White Space In My ColdFusion Code?

  Posted on Jul 19, 2009 at 7:50 PM

  @Tessa - OMG! That is major white space. That will slow the site down a little. I did a test. The document size with all objects and white space as is 952Kb uncompressed! Almost 1MB! For a home page that is unacceptable. The HTML doc alone was 161Kb. So I took it apart and stripped out all t... read more »

• Attaching ColdFusion Error Reports To Avoid GMail Spam

  Posted on Jul 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM

  Trying this out. I didn't have a problem with gmail and spam cause I used the "never send to spam", but I hated the fact that all the styling was not shown correctly.... read more »

• Adobe Announces That HomeSite Is Officially Dead

  Posted on Jul 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM

  Two words for Adobe. OPEN SOURCE!... read more »