Brian
Member since Dec 11, 2008
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Recent Blog Comments By Brian
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Calculating CSS Selector Specificity Using ColdFusion
Posted on Apr 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM
I think I like the fish method better... http://www.standardista.com/css3/css-specificity/... read more »
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What If ColdFusion Recognized More Truthy / Falsey Values
Posted on Mar 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM
That -1 as a language primitive sounds very familiar -- I'll have to dredge around the headspace to see if I can find it. My alternative point, @Ben, and you may have missed it through all the negativity is that in a secure computing environment, it is a Good Thing(TM) to assume falsey or denial un... read more »
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What If ColdFusion Recognized More Truthy / Falsey Values
Posted on Mar 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM
Nice idea (and one that I also wish that CF would do more of) -- it gets tiring going through the whole test exist - test populated - test valid -- thing. BUT, since I'm such a negative guy working for such a negative organization, we always assume falsey until proven otherwise. This way, we don't... read more »
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Nylon Technology Presentation: Introduction To XPath And XmlSearch() In ColdFusion
Posted on Oct 28, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Ben, I've looked around and I'm not sure this is even supported, so here goes: Given a deeply nested document is it possible to get the full path to the elements searched? For example (trimmed for brevity): <databases> <database id="d"> <tables> <table id... read more »
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Clearing The Session Scope Does Not End Your ColdFusion Session
Posted on Feb 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM
Does anyone know what CF does internally based on the session expiration time configured either with the admin or at the application.cfc level? Does it garbage collect?... read more »
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ColdFusion 9 Script-Based Method Definitions Work Inside CFScript
Posted on Jan 13, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Admitting that I know little about JavaDoc, but does it carry through to documenting the component when the component is called from URL?... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 8: CFThread Part I - Data Exchange
Posted on Jul 29, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Following up (Hey, I learned something): Turns out you CAN pass var-scoped values into a CFThread... I was getting frustrated because my variables-scoped loop values that surrounded my thread were incrementing before my thread invocation completed... I didn't recognize this until I had to unspo... read more »
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Learning ColdFusion 8: CFThread Part I - Data Exchange
Posted on Jul 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I thought I would be smart about a long process I was running (btw, if anyone has ANY way to pull a list of records from Active Directory using the System.DirectoryServices.dll that is faster than doing a lookup up, a search, and then pulling individual data items ala searchResults.Get_Item().Get_Pr... read more »