Charlie Griefer

Recent Blog Comments By Charlie Griefer

• Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship By Robert C. Martin

  Posted on Jun 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM

  If you write code, you should read this book on an annual basis. Absolutely fantastic book for everybody from beginners to seasoned professionals.... read more »

• Experimenting With GitHub Gist-Based Code Samples For My Blog

  Posted on Jan 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM

  Always been a fan of SyntaxHighlighter. http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/... read more »

• Sometimes, I Feel Like A Man With No Identity

  Posted on Aug 8, 2011 at 7:40 PM

  Was the movie Rocky II? Rocky wants to fight Apollo, but Adrian doesn't want him to. Up in their bedroom, he says to her, "I never asked you to stop being a woman. Please... I'm begging you please, don't ask me to stop being a man"?... read more »

• The ColdFusion Application Server Tagline Contest ($50 Amazon Gift Card)

  Posted on Jun 27, 2010 at 12:59 AM

  ColdFusion - The most powerful thing you'll ever have between your legs that doesn't run on batteries. Yeah, it's more targeted to the female demographic, but still...... read more »

• Using jQuery To Detect CSS-Based Table Display Capabilities

  Posted on Dec 1, 2009 at 12:34 PM

  Yah, the idea of moving away from browser sniffing pre-dates jQuery. Back in the day it was relatively easy to check for MSIE or Netscape. Nowadays you'd have to check for MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. Not only that, but you'd have to check versions of each. And when the next cool browser ... read more »

• Hal Helms - Real World Object Oriented Development, Sarasota - Day Five

  Posted on Mar 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM

  Hey Ben... tell David Buhler I said hello! :)... read more »

• The Way Of The Warrior And The Chance Not To Be Fired

  Posted on Jan 6, 2009 at 12:34 PM

  has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but when you mentioned 'the way of the warrior' i thought you were referring to something else. if you've got the time, check out dan millman's "peaceful warrior". book: http://www.amazon.com/Way-Peaceful-Warrior-Changes-Lives/dp/0915811898 movie: http:... read more »

• EtherPad: Potential For Great Peer Debugging

  Posted on Nov 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM

  @Ben - very cool app. passed it around the office as well and everyone "ooh'd" and "aah'd" quite a bit. Curious about the eclipse plugin tho. What's it called? Would like to check that out as well.... read more »

• Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day One

  Posted on Oct 23, 2008 at 12:35 AM

  +1 ray. i'd like to know more about the course as well :) thanks!... read more »

• "It Depends" vs. "Fact With Exceptions"

  Posted on Aug 18, 2008 at 6:15 PM

  hey ben... sounds like you came to the same conclusion/observation that i did when doing the OO thing... being "right" is subjective :) http://charlie.griefer.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/12/7/the-art-of-being-right-learning-OO as sean points out above, one of the most frustrating things (that i've ... read more »

• OOPhoto - Thoughts On Integrating The New Domain Model

  Posted on Jul 30, 2008 at 12:14 AM

  hey, has anyone seen marc esher lately? :)... read more »

• Not Commenting And The Tipping Point Of Poor Programming

  Posted on Jun 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM

  <!--- author: charlie griefer date created: 05 june 2008 purpose: to comment on ben's blog description: this is where i post a comment to ben's blog stating that i agree with brian... while i would never say "don't use comments", i would simply say "use comments where necessary". to reiterate ... read more »

• June 1st 2008 - National Regular Expression Day! (Post A Comment, Win A Prize)

  Posted on May 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM

  man, why'd you have to make it on a sunday? should have gone for monday, june 2nd so we could have had the day off work (i love 3 day weekends). i'd be proud to wear the shakespeare regex shirt to commemorate next year's (inter)national regular expression day (which falls on a monday! w00t!) :)... read more »

• Don't Be Lazy, Be Proud

  Posted on Jan 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM

  i agree with dan. it's much more work up front to write "good" code (good being a) it runs, b) it's easily maintanable). why do i want it to be easily maintainable? not because i'm lazy. it's because maintenance is rarely "fun". developing new apps is fun. learning new tools (or new ways to ... read more »

• Tiny Change In ColdFusion Coding Methodology

  Posted on Aug 24, 2007 at 5:09 PM

  99% of my code is lowercase. i uppercase acronyms (CGI, URL, etc), and comparison operators (<cfif foo IS "bar"> ... </cfif>). i don't know why i do the latter. it just feels good and i cant' stop :)... read more »

• ColdFusion Insert() - How Did I Miss This Function?

  Posted on Jul 16, 2007 at 6:31 PM

  heh... http://cfblog.griefer.com/index.cfm/id/insert_i_had_no_idea :)... read more »

• Lenny And Bo, ColdFusion Programmers (Vol. 23)

  Posted on Jul 3, 2007 at 1:19 PM

  it'd probably clear up some confusion if you posted a graphical representation of the scale :)... read more »