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Recent Blog Comments By Tom Jenkins

• Using Base64 Canvas Data In jQuery To Create ColdFusion Images

  Posted on Mar 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM

  Just seen a very similar concept here: http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/ Which they say: "As it works on webkit, he made sure it worked on the mobile Android and iPhone browsers. No multi-touch as yet, but the t... read more »

• Creating An Image Zoom And Clip Effect With jQuery

  Posted on Jan 22, 2010 at 3:39 AM

  Nice job dude :) You could also implement a very nice crop effect on top of this (I've personally used jCrop which I found was awesome when implemented alongside CF's image tags) to create an "uber" image manipulation package. read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 6:06 AM

  Looks sweet! Just loaded it into a couple of intranet developments we're doing and the pages with heavy jQuery ... loading times have sped up 10 fold! Damn I love jQuery :D... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Oct 5, 2009 at 5:28 AM

  @Ben hehe noticed you're sporting the war wound on the CF site today http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/ > community feedback (centre right) > your video :D... read more »

• jQuery's Passes Itself As An Argument To The "Ready" Event Callback

  Posted on Sep 27, 2009 at 6:23 AM

  @Ben That is awesome! I run into that problem all of the time as a lot of our older applications run the Prototype library which uses $. I always end up replacing $ to "jQuery" using the noConflict method ... not now though :) Good tip!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)

  Posted on Sep 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM

  @John, Nice thinking, I hadn't taken into account the length of text could be huge and that working "backwards" would be quicker. Also changed it to arrays as I find them easier to manipulate. Here's a quick knock up of my solution ... just for fun (and I'm bored at work :P) <cfset... read more »

• Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)

  Posted on Sep 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM

  @Ben you're like this regular expression master :P It's funny though how peoples minds works in different ways; for me the first thing that came into my head to solve this problem was to simply use ListLen with a delimiter of " ". That would give the word count. Then loop through anything... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating ColdFusion Templates On The Fly

  Posted on Sep 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM

  @Ben a method I've found for doing a similar thing is to Evaluate and then immediately DE the content. So for example: <cfset name = "Tricia" /> <cfset templateCode=Evaluate(DE('<cfset name = "#name#" /> <cfinclude template="./display.cfm" />'))>
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• Ask Ben: Getting The Domain Name From The Referer URL

  Posted on Aug 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM

  Some nice methods there Ben; I certainly didn't know about the JAVA method. For a similar thing, I've gone down the following route: <cfset referer = " http://www.shemuscle.com/category/anonymous/ " /> <C... read more »