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Recent Blog Comments By Tim

• Force ColdFusion Server To Recompile A ColdFusion Template

  Posted on Jun 26, 2008 at 4:58 PM

  Another twist on this old thread.... from time to time, we *delete* a .cfm file and since the .class file still exists (we have "save class files" on), it still tries to serve it up. That is the only way I can explain it -- the file is not there, but code in it (when it was there) executes. read more »

• Ask Ben: Getting XML Values And Aggregates In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:31 AM

  Did I miss a link to your XmlUtility.cfc?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Getting XML Values And Aggregates In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:13 AM

  Glad I could inspire you! Ill try it out now. Tim... read more »

• Ask Ben: Selecting All Text Nodes Of An XML Document

  Posted on Aug 24, 2007 at 5:28 PM

  What would be your take on this: If you have an XML Doc <employees> <employee> <empid>123</empid> </employee> <employee> <empid>456</empid> </employee> </employees> I... read more »

• Advice On Balancing Cohesion, Packaging, And God Objects?

  Posted on Aug 23, 2007 at 2:15 PM

  First poster was right -- it would not seem like an overwhelming CFC if you removed most of the extraneous spacing. It is my only complaint about using your CFC as is -- I always end up removing all that extra space to get the filesize down and (to me) it is easier to read and follow without it.... read more »

• Parsing CSV Data Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 27, 2007 at 6:25 PM

  @Stephen: Have you gotten this work with opencsv's CSVWriter? Tim... read more »

• POIUtility.cfc Examples For Reading And Writing Excel Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 27, 2007 at 3:31 PM

  Great set of functions. Add this to your wish list -- a function to just return the sheet names. If we have a big XLS with several sheets, and all I want to do is display the sheet names, I have to load in all the data and ignore it. We ended up having to write one to extend your CFC a bit. <... read more »

• Using ColdFusion Structures To Remove Duplicate List Values

  Posted on Jul 27, 2007 at 12:25 AM

  Now how about an easy way to tell *which* elements of the list are duplicated?... read more »

• Converting A Java Array To A ColdFusion Array

  Posted on Jul 25, 2007 at 12:09 AM

  Ben-- This was a life saver. Again, your blog helps the common programmer solve a problem. I really appreciate it. Tim... read more »

• GMail Chooses ONLY Non-HTML Mail If Given The Option

  Posted on Aug 24, 2006 at 1:15 PM

  Found a solution... the order of the mime parts matters. If you put the text/plain part before the text/html, gmail will display the html part. Nice!... read more »