John Farrar

Recent Blog Comments By John Farrar

• Changes In Transclude() Function Availability In AngularJS 1.2

  Posted on Dec 10, 2013 at 9:31 AM

  With Angular it seems more powerful but less mature as a platform. One of the struggles CFML has is there are not as many solutions as richly supported by developers as WordPress. We have some CMS solutions but not with as many plugin apps or skin themes. Likewise it reminds me of the early days of... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 Beta, Apache Tomcat, And Symbolic Links On Mac OSX

  Posted on Feb 20, 2012 at 8:26 AM

  Whohas multiuserver running on Mac?... read more »

• The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate By Gary Chapman

  Posted on Jun 28, 2011 at 11:24 PM

  @Ben, I thought you explained yourself quite well. Though my view is these are value languages. Love to me is not an emotion but emotion and action are the byproduct of love. There are men and women who have been betrayed by friends and out of love took the pain of the betrayal with no reward. That... read more »

• ColdFusion Application-Specific Mappings Work With CFInclude

  Posted on Mar 14, 2011 at 9:44 AM

  Have you tried to change a mapping while a site was live and running to see if it creates and issue or works? I was not aware you could use dynamic variables like this and it is a good concept. Thanks for sharing.... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags Cannot Act As ColdFusion Component Mixins

  Posted on Jan 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM

  @Ben, Functional exploration has a value in the Mix. Thanks for the exploration of one of my favorite topics... 'how ColdFusion thinks'.... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags Cannot Act As ColdFusion Component Mixins

  Posted on Jan 4, 2011 at 11:37 AM

  Our experience is use Custom Tags for content handlers, view tools and not for logic. With that concept in mind we would not be against your use case but that level of content handling might work better from a component to start with. Why were you trying to use a custom tag inside a mixin component... read more »

• Using jQuery's Proxy() Method In Event Binding And Unbinding

  Posted on Aug 31, 2010 at 3:02 PM

  @Ben, You did not thicken the fog... seems to be about the same visibility. LOL... read more »

• Using jQuery's Proxy() Method In Event Binding And Unbinding

  Posted on Aug 31, 2010 at 11:40 AM

  OK... so your point on the second bind to sarah is that proxy does not form secondary binding. It will always point to the primary bind object?... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Resetting Applications With ApplicationStop()

  Posted on Jul 28, 2010 at 2:36 PM

  It appears ORMReload() does not update the fields in the database either. That appears to happen on restarting the application but not on running that command. Was going to set the system to automatically update on a dev server and it didn't seem to work for me. (9.0.1).... read more »

• The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate By Gary Chapman

  Posted on Jul 19, 2010 at 5:31 PM

  @Sarah Kelly, It has been said the letter kills but the spirit gives life. If we do onto others by the letter you are right Sarah, that would be the death of a relationship most of the time.... read more »

• The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate By Gary Chapman

  Posted on Jul 19, 2010 at 3:42 PM

  @Sara, I don't think the author of the book implied incompadibility based on a person's love language. (Granted I have not read the book either.) It seems to me that love (or rather true love) drives us to express in the other person's listening language. Another person posted here that there is a ... read more »

• The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate By Gary Chapman

  Posted on Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41 PM

  This is a great topic. Kudos for seeing the value in the book and the quality you put into your blog posting.... read more »

• Creating Transparent Images With ColdFusion 8 And ImageNew()

  Posted on Apr 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM

  @Ben Nadel, If you try out Theme Roller you will get the idea. You can choose a color and it roloads the page with the color adjusted images. This basically allows you to adjust both saturation and hue in color speak. :) That is my goal also. Perhaps there is a Flash library that would allow the sa... read more »

• Creating Transparent Images With ColdFusion 8 And ImageNew()

  Posted on Apr 16, 2010 at 1:01 PM

  Hey... working on a jQuery Themes type tool built in ColdFusion. This could be the answer. Have you used this technique to refactor graphics? I will need to recolor the icon graphics and such... and keep the transparency.... read more »

• Mom! Ben Broke My CFInterface!

  Posted on Dec 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM

  @Sean, very well put IMO on CFML is not Java. This is a hard concept for many to absorb. Java is good and the other languages are good. Each has their own good. Likewise CF has many good features and we should foremost embrace CFML when coding in ColdFusion.... read more »

• How Much Should Our ColdFusion Applications Actually Know About ORM?

  Posted on Sep 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM

  @Ray or @Jason... could you elaborate by what you mean by not putting any ORM in your controller? (I am sure some will have no idea what you mean... and my desire is just to 'make sure' what you mean.) Are you saying you abstract the data interaction through another object (service in this case) to ... read more »

• Performing ColdFusion Processing After A CFLocation Tag

  Posted on May 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM

  Here we go... My dad is stronger than your dad. Yeah, well my dad uses Railo. So what, my dad uses ColdFusion. Blah, you guys bust me up... my dad uses Blue Dragon! (This should be an interesting ride. LOL)... read more »

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM

  @Elliot, :) ... I appreciate you having a different opinion. Standards make great guides but poor walls.... read more »

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM

  I forgot to add the return type. That should be there also. CFC: [Name] (extends : [if applicable]) Methods: * [method 1] : (returns : dataType) * [method 2] + [required argument] : (data type) ~ [optional argument] : (data type)... read more »

• Testing For ColdFusion Component Interface Support

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:04 AM

  Yes... but don't get so UML standardized that someone who doesn't know UML is clueless. :) CFC: [Name] (extends : [if applicable]) Methods: * [method 1] * [method 2] + [required argument] : (data type) ~ [optional argument] : (data type) Drilling into the rest of the code is nic... read more »