JC

Recent Blog Comments By JC

• What ColdFusion Teaches Us About The Ultimate "Roll Your Own" Solution

  Posted on Sep 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM

  @Jacob -- absolutely. The trick is knowing when it'll take less time to do it yourself than wedge someone else's oval shaped application into your round hole.... read more »

• 19.0 Must Be Within Range: ( 1 : 12 )

  Posted on Aug 31, 2010 at 2:17 PM

  Just hit this one myself, but wasn't having any luck with it. <cfswitch expression="#dayofweek(now())#"> <cfcase value="1,7">Weekend</cfcase> <cfcase value="2">Monday</cfcase> <cfdefaultcase>Other Day</cfdefaultcase> </cfswitch> finally realized... i... read more »

• Holding Hands, The Moment, And The Relationship

  Posted on Jul 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM

  You sure it wasn't just that you have huge hands and it hurt for her to spread her fingers that far apart? I had a buddy in school whose older bro had sausage thick fingers (ended up playing catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers til he got injured or something) and I remember his girlfriend was this tin... read more »

• My Sleep Experiment And Schedule Shift

  Posted on Jun 21, 2010 at 4:15 PM

  I know this is a bit old, but if you have an iphone, check out the ER Ultimate app (Easy Relax Ultimate). It lets you create customized whitenoise. There're about 25 base loops from various storms to ocean tides to assorted soft music, with adjustable volume; then you can layer that with up to 3 dif... read more »

• Typing High Ascii Values On A Standard Keyboard

  Posted on Jun 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM

  err &_copy_;... read more »

• Typing High Ascii Values On A Standard Keyboard

  Posted on Jun 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM

  yeah... my password used to include © and Þ ... but knowing how to type those can cause problems sometimes. Some browsers seem to puke on those if you don't make them © or whatever... read more »

• JRUN Throwing 404 Errors For PATH_INFO In Multiserver ColdFusion Installation

  Posted on Jun 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM

  Is this a new problem with 9? We've never had this issue in 8 that I can recall.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing Nested Lists With A Single Delimiter In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM

  I probably would have used MOD... if list item number is even, name, odd, value... something like that. But this is probably a better way. :)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Enforcing An SSL (HTTPS) Connection Based On Request

  Posted on Jul 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM

  Aye, Ben. In IIS, right click on a web site and choose properties > Directory Security > Secure Communications > Edit > Require Secure Channel (SSL) Then do the same thing on the default file and uncheck it there, which exempts it. I think I left out one step though -- you have to cha... read more »

• Ask Ben: Enforcing An SSL (HTTPS) Connection Based On Request

  Posted on Jul 28, 2009 at 4:49 PM

  I usually handle this with IIS. 1) Create an empty index.htm page 2) Set index.htm as a server-side redirect to https://yourdomain.com/yourdefaultpage.cfm 3) Change the "SSL Required" error page to index.htm 4) Force SSL sitewide 5) Exempt index.htm from SSL requirement. I assume you could easil... read more »

• The New BenNadel.com - Same Content, Fresh New Look

  Posted on May 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM

  good show... I was tired of having to explain that "kinky solutions" was a coldfusion site and I wasn't looking at pr0n on company time.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A Fixed-Field-Width Data File With ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM

  Actually, Ben, it's been around since at least coldfusion 3, and it pretty much was intended to be used for such things. Didn't have UDFs until version 5. :) *shrug* The other way works, but you must admit this is a far, far simpler solution -- and that kind of simplicity is what made CF a success ... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A Fixed-Field-Width Data File With ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM

  Why wouldn't you just use CFTable? <cfset crlf = #chr(13)#&#chr(10)#> <cfquery name="myData">select ID, account, type, status FROM MyDB</cfquery> <cfsavecontent variable="export"><cftable query="myData"> <cfcol width="2" text="#myData.ID#"> <cfcol width="10" ... read more »