Joe Zack

Recent Blog Comments By Joe Zack

• Tales Of Revolution And A Sense Of Community

  Posted on Apr 22, 2011 at 12:19 AM

  Wow that's huge Ben! I'm a big fan of both you and Seth, you guys rock! Additionally, I'd like to point out that although I don't work in web development anymore, I still follow your blog because your posts are always so interesting and enlightening. Keep up the good work!... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

  Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 1:20 PM

  Bah, I can't even copy/paste today. tgif... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

  Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 1:18 PM

  I'm a sucker for PowerShell, the object based piping makes operating on collections a cinch: Function NameIsSoAdjective($names, $adjective) { $names | foreach { "$_ is so $adjective" } }   NameIsSoAdjective "Me","Myself","I" "awesome... read more »

• jQuery Selectors - The Firebug Plugin Inserts A Hidden DIV Element

  Posted on Aug 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM

  Plugins, Grease Monkey Scripts and other things can add to the dom as well. Unfortunately, you can't trust that your html hasn't been altered.... read more »

• June 1st 2009 - 2nd Annual (Inter)?National Regular Expression Day!

  Posted on Jun 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM

  The thing I like most about Twitter is finding out what the people I like are likin' (or hatin') on. (like|cool|sucks|hate|awesome|love|great|free|naked) Sorry, I couldn't resist throwing the "naked" in there. I don't think I've ever even seen the word come up, but you know...just in case!... read more »

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM

  Ruby doesn't even have "Interfaces", reminds me of a blog entry I read a while back: http://danielroop.com/blog/2008/06/28/program-to-an-interface-not-an-interface/... read more »

• What Is The Best Time Of Day To Workout?

  Posted on Apr 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM

  I've never had a problem doing cardio in the morning, but I've never been able to lift as well in the a.m. I had figured it was a mental thing, but now I'm glad to have a good excuse for putting off my workouts till night!... read more »

• Binding Javascript Method References To Their Parent Classes

  Posted on Mar 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM

  As mentioned in the A List Apart article, Prototype has a great function called "bind" which helps with this sort of thing. Although, doesn't it look a bit weird? <pre> iterator.each( function(e) { this.something(); }.bind(this) )<pre>... read more »

• Have A Happy Thanksgiving From Kinky Solutions

  Posted on Nov 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM

  Aaaaaah Cyclops! This might have been a better Halloween card! Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!... read more »

• MySQL Does Not Support IF / ELSE Statements In General SQL Work Flow

  Posted on Sep 2, 2008 at 11:58 AM

  @Ben Whoops, I misread. You could always make your insert into a function, but it's a hack and it still involves you writing a function.... read more »

• MySQL Does Not Support IF / ELSE Statements In General SQL Work Flow

  Posted on Sep 2, 2008 at 11:25 AM

  I would think something like this would work: IF(@contactID = 0, @LAST_INSERT_ID(), @contactID)... read more »