Ron Stewart

Recent Blog Comments By Ron Stewart

• Considering Aliases For EncodeForHtml(), EncodeForHtmlAttribute(), And EncodeForUrl() In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM

  We've done something similar with a component-based approach in a couple of cases and for similar reasons. With our approach, we'd instantiate the component with the method-based shorthand versions of the BIFs as "e" (for "encode") or "ef" (for "encodeFor&q... read more »

• CFQuery Timeout Uses KILL QUERY Command With MySQL 5 Driver In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 26, 2017 at 7:09 AM

  That is "interesting" but I'm not sure the behavior you describe for multi-statement CFQUERY's really makes much sense. A more logical (at least to my tiny brain) would be for the CFQUERY as a whole to be "timed out" (aborted?) rather than just the currently-executing statement. ... read more »

• The User Experience (UX) Of Tipping As Personal Expression

  Posted on Apr 23, 2015 at 6:56 PM

  So... how do you find out the results of each day's tip polls? Seems like a logical sort of way to continue the experience... :)... read more »

• Thoughts On User / Page Request Security Model (Part II)

  Posted on May 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM

  Thanks for blogging on this, Ben -- very interesting stuff and timely, as well. We're in the midst of revamping exactly this kind of stuff in our app framework and we're wrestling with some of these same kinds of questions... Good stuff.... read more »

• Getting ColdFusion To Work With MS SQL Server Express 2005 Databases

  Posted on Dec 11, 2008 at 7:28 AM

  Ben, We too use SQL Server 2005 Express on our dev laptops, based on having the full version on our production servers, so we've been down this road a couple of teams each within our team over the past couple years.. I've ended up pulling together a pretty detailed set of steps that go through each... read more »

• Comprehensive ColdFusion Component OnMissingMethod() Testing

  Posted on Nov 19, 2008 at 10:39 AM

  Great post, Ben! Thanks for pulling this thread... And the "Arnold" add is particularly timely, given Maria's presence at MAX earlier this week...... read more »