Gary Stanton

Recent Blog Comments By Gary Stanton

• Splitting An Array Into Groups In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Jul 7, 2022 at 8:14 AM

  Just thought I'd come back and update this with some new information... Having been using this approach for many years, I've finally run into an issue whereby SQL Server is unable to process such a complex query. In this instance we're passing a list of around 60k IDs, which to be fair, is ... read more »

• Splitting An Array Into Groups In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Apr 22, 2022 at 1:12 PM

  Thanks, yet again Ben! Just wondered how you handle your utilities.cfc ? I have a sprawling one that has been updated over, well, basically my entire career, and is instantiated as a singleton and passed into pretty much all of my other CFCs... but if anyone has a more elegant way, I'm sure... read more »

• Scaling An Image During A Draw Operation Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:44 AM

  It's really cool that you're having the exact same issues as me, about a week before I have them... so by the time I come to do a bit of Googling, your solution is already there for me to peruse... Keep it up! ;)... read more »

• As A Man, I Can Be A Better Example Than I Have Been

  Posted on Mar 25, 2020 at 6:32 PM

  This is a great post dude. I've been reading your blog since the KS days and always took your examples with a pinch of salt; partially because I think the 'real you' that you allude to has always been evident in the tone of the posts themselves, but also because I too was young, male, privil... read more »

• Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13

  Posted on Feb 18, 2020 at 5:41 AM

  This came up in a feed today and I found myself trawling back through the post on the Lucee dev forum - based on that, I can't believe this was ever actually implemented! I've spent the last couple of years getting used to the queryExecute syntax and I'm comfortable using it, but I have... read more »

• JSONWebTokens.cfc - A Small ColdFusion Module For JSON Web Tokens

  Posted on May 11, 2017 at 9:33 AM

  That's yet another beer I owe you... hope you're keeping track. ;)... read more »

• On Staying Focused And Productive In The World Of Programming

  Posted on Jan 19, 2016 at 11:58 AM

  Damn Ben, that was an excellent and inspiring post. I have to say though, the idea that you of all people suffer from 'impostor syndrome'? Sheesh... You should know that you're the reason most of the *rest* of us feel like impostors from time to time! Or to rephrase more positively: Without your ... read more »

• LOCAL Variables Scope Conflicts With ColdFusion Query of Queries

  Posted on Mar 15, 2013 at 7:26 AM

  @Curt Self - Yup... you and the rest of the CF community. Adobe should be paying Ben, I reckon there'd be a lot less CF websites out there without him. @Ben - Thanks for solving yet another issue. Previously I've been copying a Local variable to an unscoped variable in order to use in QOQ, which ju... read more »

• Using CSS Pseudo Elements :before And :after

  Posted on Jan 21, 2013 at 11:50 AM

  Actually, though I'm guilty of doing it myself, I don't think using :before to add an asterisk to a required field is good usability. A screen reader won't be able to pick that asterisk up - unless they've changed recently to pick up CSS 'content' values. Still, they're a great way to add design to... read more »

• Using CSS Pseudo Elements :before And :after

  Posted on Jan 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM

  Lovely, aren't they? ;)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Manually Enforcing Basic HTTP Authorization In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM

  I'm using this, or some variant thereof, to force authentication of a REST API I've been working on using Taffy. It all works perfectly in development and is a very slick solution (thanks as always, Ben!), but when I run it live it seems that the authentication details aren't passed along in the hea... read more »

• Using Four-Sided Positioning In CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

  Posted on Aug 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM

  I can't believe I never thought to try this before...... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: CFThread Part IV - Cross-Page Thread References

  Posted on May 13, 2010 at 7:07 AM

  Thanks for this - it seems like a bit of a hack to store the data in the application scope, but damn if it doesn't work a charm. I had a massive timing issue with posting data to a payment gateway and this technique solved the problem. The thing is, I can't see why this functionality isn't built i... read more »