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Recent Blog Comments By Qasim Rasheed

• How To Create GStrings In Javascript By Extending Core Data Types

  Posted on Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM

  Very slick Ben.... read more »

• My BFusion / BFLEX Keynote Address

  Posted on Oct 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM

  Ben, Awesome speech. Keep up the great work. Hopefully you'll make to CFinNC next year... read more »

• Thoroughly Document Your Use Of ColdFusion's CFHTMLHead Tag

  Posted on Sep 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM

  I agree with Ben that use of cfhtmlhead should be avoided. I ended up writing up my own custom tag that copies text passed to it as a key in request scope. Since I use a central layout (MG & Fusebox), the layout file extract that key and spits it out before </head>... read more »

• Running UPDATE And DELETE SQL Statements Using ColdFusion Query Of Queries

  Posted on Sep 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM

  Wow. I am especially amazed at Regex patterns. Cool!!... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: ArrayFind() And ArrayContains() For Searching Arrays

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 6:48 PM

  Brandon, That's exactly what I was going to say. Since CF array is essentially a Java Vector, Adobe has just opened up few new methods from an existing API. Nevertheless welcome additions.... read more »

• Tracking Data Audits In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 25, 2008 at 11:40 AM

  As several people have already mentioned, triggers are usually a default choice for auditing. An alternative approach will be to use an Aspect (AOP) to record changes to a business object over time.... read more »

• CFUNITED 2008 - So Many Great People

  Posted on Jun 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM

  Ben, It was nice to see you at CFUnited and thanks for sharing the picture.... read more »

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

  Posted on Mar 11, 2008 at 2:40 PM

  Sean has written an interesting way of extending root Application.cfc in past. http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Extending_Your_Root_Applicationcfc read more »

• SQL COUNT( NULLIF( .. ) ) Is Totally Awesome

  Posted on Mar 15, 2007 at 6:01 PM

  Another solution that I have and currently use is the use of PARTITION for aggregating records in Oracle. I am not sure if SQL Server has something similar. ByuUsing PARTITION, calculating running totals etc becomes a breeze. Here is a link for your reference read more »

• Insane ColdFusion Query Of Queries Madness (PLEASE HELP!)

  Posted on Mar 7, 2007 at 5:59 PM

  QoQ definitely have its quirks. In one of my past project, we were doing QoQ on a result that will have CAS numbers (which can optionally be in the format XX-XX-XXXX). Now ColdFusion in its wisdom was converting the entire column to type Date if the first row in CAS number column is in date forma... read more »

• My AJAX / ColdFusion Response Framework (er, um ...Methodology)

  Posted on Mar 7, 2007 at 5:49 PM

  Ben, I uses a similar approach which is more CFC based although it doesn't handle errors at this point. I have an AJAX Facade cfc which has an handle to the internal ColdSpring Bean Factory. All methods in this CFC have a signature of access="remote" so the clients can call those methods d... read more »

• How Do I Get A Pointer To A Built In ColdFusion Method?

  Posted on Mar 7, 2007 at 5:42 PM

  Ben, Although I am not sure but this method could help you locating builtin functions getFunctionList(). Thanks... read more »

• Determining Which Function Called This Function (Using ColdFusion)

  Posted on Nov 16, 2006 at 3:48 PM

  Couldn't you just use cftrace?... read more »