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Recent Blog Comments By ike

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 7, 2008 at 12:01 AM

  Agreed. :) The singleton comment was more about exploring the concept openly in the discussion than about pointing anything out to you in particular. I kinda figured the thought had already occurred to you. ;) But as evidenced by my forgetting about things like cfcache, it might not immediately jum... read more »

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 6, 2008 at 10:40 PM

  @Ben - try the preso again later -- I've been able to get it open whenever I've tried, so it's probably just an intermittent thing between you and there. I honestly hadn't separated them out in my mind either -- at least not consciously, until I'd read Rob's slides. I had just had a sort of vague ... read more »

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 6, 2008 at 12:48 PM

  Oh duh... "it's built into ColdFusion that way but not in any other way" ... I forgot about cfcache again! ;) I obviously haven't used it very much.... read more »

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 5, 2008 at 11:48 PM

  Oh grr... nevermind... I used <bold> tags... D'oh! I guess all the testing at the neurologists office today wiped me out. ;)... read more »

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 5, 2008 at 11:47 PM

  What? No bold? Bastard! You said I could use strong tags. ;)... read more »

• Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

  Posted on Dec 5, 2008 at 11:46 PM

  @Ben - I was actually just getting ready to post the URL to Rob's presentation slides, but he beat me to it, the bastard! ;) I wanted to highlight briefly a couple of points in his presentation compared to your blog entry here and the previous comments. In particular the notion that your caching r... read more »

• Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Dec 4, 2008 at 6:38 PM

  Welcome. Yeah, I had put the quicksort function into the onTap framework libraries, so I end up using it as kind of a generic go-to when (not often) I do sorting because my stuff is all DLL-like that way. :)... read more »

• Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Dec 4, 2008 at 6:04 PM

  Well you only need a 2nd function if you're planning to use it the way the one on cflib was written. If you're okay with reproducing the quick sort code, then you can just swap out the dependency on the ternary function for having your ternary logic in-line. Yeah, it's liable to be more complex and ... read more »

• Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Dec 4, 2008 at 1:19 AM

  That is a bizarre error... It's supposed to be a "nameless" array until it passes the equal sign, at which point it should reset the pointer, irrespective of what it was before... Oops! Somebody wasn't too careful with their encapsulation.... read more »

• Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Dec 4, 2008 at 1:15 AM

  Yeah, I try not to visualize it. :P Basically, you just need a small piece that can order 2 items (as opposed to the entire set) and then you feed that into the quick sort algorithm and let it do its own thing. Like "Sue and Harry... Sue is taller, she's first". :)... read more »

• The Occasional Danger Of ColdFusion's Automatic Data Type Conversion

  Posted on Dec 3, 2008 at 11:22 PM

  Compare is one way to handle that... I tend to prefer int() if not lsnumberformat() or numberformat(). But for that matter, even rereplace(string,"\.00$","") should work fine.... read more »

• Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents

  Posted on Dec 3, 2008 at 11:15 PM

  I didn't quite finish reading the new function code. Kudos for making it work without the parent reference. :) Thought I'd throw in a couple of hints. First if you're not already familiar with it, there's a "quick sort" algorithm that may be faster than the bubble sort here -- there's a quicksort ... read more »

• Ask Ben: Get Arguments For ColdFusion User Defined Functions

  Posted on Dec 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM

  I'm not certain, but I think part of the plan with the CF9 beta has been to allow us to define data types (and possibly default / required values) when declaring functions with cfscript. If that turns out to be true then that should hopefully make that extra metadata accessible this way as well, but... read more »

• My Non-Working Anti-Spam Solution And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work)

  Posted on Nov 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM

  Thanks for the clarification btw. :)... read more »

• My Non-Working Anti-Spam Solution And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work)

  Posted on Nov 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM

  Ahh, well my reasoning behind sending things to a moderation bin if they get flagged is two-fold - 1 it's to prevent false positives from frustrating users who want to participate and 2 to reduce the amount of spam that subscribers get in their email via the comment notifications. I don't worry too ... read more »

• My Non-Working Anti-Spam Solution And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work)

  Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 8:39 PM

  Though Mark did loosen it up a bit recently because of some comments I left on an entry about cfqueryparam. :)... read more »

• My Non-Working Anti-Spam Solution And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work)

  Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 8:38 PM

  Blind users still don't have javascript support generally speaking. There is likely to be some support for it in future screen readers, but they're not out yet and the standards for it are still nacent, so there's no way of knowing if what we're doing with it today will be compliant with the upcomin... read more »

• CFDirectory Filtering Uses Pipe Character For Multiple Filters (Thanks Steve Withington)

  Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 7:11 PM

  They're different because they were done by different programmers at different times and they weren't really paying attention to what had come before... which happens all the time in software development. Why do we have <cffile actuion="upload" /> but instead of <cffile action="download" /&... read more »

• Comprehensive ColdFusion Component OnMissingMethod() Testing

  Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM

  Thanks Ben. :) Of course one of the things that some folks will not like about the lazy-loading method approach is that if you dump out the CFC or if you use getMetaData() for IoC or somesuch, none of the lazy-loaded methods will show up. I would expect that in most cases that would be okay, alt... read more »

• Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, And Producing Software

  Posted on Nov 24, 2008 at 4:00 PM

  I have to agree with JeffG too... I remember a conversation I had with a friend a while back in which I mentioned "software that's fun to use" being described in a "white paper" and he kind of wrinkled his nose and said "no, there is software that does that, but they're called games". He obviously m... read more »