Boyan Kostadinov

Recent Blog Comments By Boyan Kostadinov

• Thoughts On Storing Duplicate / Calculated Data In The Database

  Posted on Mar 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM

  I think they are "rules of thumb" (I feel funny using that expression after it's explanation in "The Boondock Saints", you must see that if you haven't already). That being said, my rules that would apply here are: - First and foremost a good database design. Get familiar (if you are not already) w... read more »

• Kinky Solutions Valentine's Day Give Away

  Posted on Feb 5, 2008 at 2:50 PM

  My wife Amy is the hardest worker I know, she will not rest until everything is done. At work, they have to drag her away from her desk so she can take a break. We've been married for almost 3 years and we met on Valentine's day 4 years ago.... read more »

• New York ColdFusion User Group A Success

  Posted on Jan 28, 2008 at 5:52 PM

  Congrats dude! That's awesome... read more »

• Kinky File Explorer - ColdFusion And jQuery Based File Explorer

  Posted on Oct 17, 2007 at 9:24 AM

  Ben, that's a great idea. I think you should definitely use the code highlighting brush. It's as simple as adding a name="code"and class="cf" to your pre tags!... read more »

• Kinky File Explorer - ColdFusion And jQuery Based File Explorer

  Posted on Oct 16, 2007 at 9:02 PM

  Kick ass! Looks pretty nice dude. I'll be taking advantage of it.... read more »

• The Brave One Starring Jodie Foster And Terrence Howard

  Posted on Sep 17, 2007 at 11:41 PM

  Good review. I was thinking of seeing it anyway and now I'll have to. If you like the vigilante justice stuff, you got to check out "The Boondock Saints" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/. It is freaking awesome!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Handling Redirects With ColdFusion CFHttp

  Posted on Aug 31, 2007 at 9:32 AM

  Good tip as always. Thanks Ben.... read more »

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

  Posted on Aug 24, 2007 at 7:47 PM

  I got a brilliant idea, he he. Brake it down as much as possible but write something to pack it in one file for distribution. For download, the person can get the single file or the broken down distribution. The concept is somewhat similar to downloading the current JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Pr... read more »

• Tiny Change In ColdFusion Coding Methodology

  Posted on Aug 24, 2007 at 5:23 PM

  why uppercase anything at all? I use camelCase for my variables names when they are made up of two words (such as "userName") but everything else (tags and attributes) is lower case. I also apply this to sql when writing database queries or stored procedures.... read more »

• Passing Referer AS ColdFusion CFHttp CGI Value vs HEADER Value?

  Posted on Aug 9, 2007 at 4:18 PM

  He he, good job! I love the above banner too :-)... read more »

• The Bourne Ultimatum Starring Matt Damon And Julia Stiles

  Posted on Aug 6, 2007 at 4:49 PM

  I also saw the movie this past weekend. I didn't have high expectation so it was all right. On a side not, I have to say that I cannot take Matt Deamon seriously anymore after the "Team America - World Police" movie. If you guys haven't seen that one, it's pretty damn good.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing Microsoft Word XML Into A Useful ColdFusion XML Document

  Posted on Jul 25, 2007 at 9:03 AM

  Ben, I hear what you are saying but it's a good attempt anyway. Hopefully, Microsoft will standardize their crap at some point in the future. Keep up the cool stuff coming.... read more »

• Project HUGE: Why I Can't Stop Thinking About Lydia Cheng's Daughter

  Posted on Jul 23, 2007 at 4:29 PM

  Totally unrelated and somewhat random thought, he he. The "Brotherhood of Iron" you were referring to above instantly gave me this mental picture of Connan the Barbarian, but with Ben as Connan, lol.... read more »

• Simple Non-ColdFusion Document Security For Shared Hosting Environments

  Posted on Jul 20, 2007 at 11:27 AM

  Doh! I'm an idiot. I totally missed the shared hosting environment bit.... read more »

• Simple Non-ColdFusion Document Security For Shared Hosting Environments

  Posted on Jul 20, 2007 at 9:56 AM

  Forgot to mention that is the solution the guy from Blue Dragon failed to mention when giving his presentation on IIS 7. I talked to him afterwards and he agreed that it's possible even though he argued about the performance.... read more »

• Simple Non-ColdFusion Document Security For Shared Hosting Environments

  Posted on Jul 20, 2007 at 9:54 AM

  Ben, nice solution to a common problem. Thanks! My alternate suggestion on achieving the same thing is: 1. Setup a virtual directory in IIS 2. Go the the virtual directory properties and under the "main" tab click on the "Configuration" button 3. Add a application extension mapping for ".*" to be ... read more »

• Using Path Info To Influence The Browser's Save-As Action

  Posted on Jul 19, 2007 at 10:35 AM

  Ben, interesting alternative to mod_rewire or an ISAPI filter. I'll have to keep it in mind when I do no have access to the server configuration. As a side not, there is a free ISAPI rewrite filter I'm using if somebody wants to travel that route. Here is my little guide on it: http://boyank.blogs... read more »

• jQuery Plugin To Return Delimited Value List Of Stack Element Attributes

  Posted on Jul 11, 2007 at 6:21 PM

  Neato, thanks for posting this. I'm still using prototype.js but jQuery seems pretty damn nice.... read more »

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

  Posted on Jul 3, 2007 at 11:14 AM

  What in the world is the "Beauregaridan Cup", he he... read more »

• Parsing HTML Tag Data Into A ColdFusion Structure

  Posted on Jun 18, 2007 at 11:35 AM

  This will come in handy. Thanks dude!... read more »