Drew Wells

Recent Blog Comments By Drew Wells

• Project HUGE: Barbell Deadlifts - 365x5 With A Concentration On Form

  Posted on Jan 17, 2010 at 6:08 PM

  Im a recent study of the RDL (Romanian Dead Lift) and thats the first thing I was looking at. Looks like you had a good arch in your back, mine still is sore the following day. Im hoping thats just from use not from misuse.... read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 8:55 AM

  @David McGuigan, By having jQuery run an animation for set amount of seconds, it will hold up the rest of the chain until the animation is complete. Since the action of the animation is not doing anything, you are in effect having jQuery sit in a loop of nothing for the time specified. I actually... read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 12:55 AM

  Delay is alright, but there was always .animate({opacity: 1}). I'm still looking forward to something a little more generalized that I can use like a pause() in other languages. jQuery.proxy does look extremely useful at saving a few lines of code around bindings. They've not done a great job of ... read more »

• Caching ColdFusion Pages With Expires Header Value

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 2:52 PM

  I wanted to add a note that this works for cfheader, but not for a cfscript solution utilizing getPageContext(). Here's my example written entirely in cfscript <cfscript> context = getPageContext(); context.setFlushOutput(false); response = context.getResponse().getResponse(); out = response... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Refreshing And Rebuilding An ORM Application

  Posted on Oct 19, 2009 at 5:06 PM

  One note, Update will populate new columns if they don't exist, but it won't change settings on those properties (columns). I altered a length parameter on one of my columns and this change did not persist to the DB. If you change this.ormSettings.dbCreate = "dropCreate" it will change the table... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using OnCFCRequest() To Return JSONP (JSON With Padding) API Responses

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM

  ColdFusion 9 isn't even out yet and you are already demoing framework enhancements. Nice job!... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Virtual File System vs. Actual File System

  Posted on Jul 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM

  Only 4 times faster? I was expecting several orders of magnitude faster.. this is somewhat surprising.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Building A jQuery And ColdFusion Rating System

  Posted on Jul 7, 2009 at 12:12 PM

  Just curious, why did you opt for a cfm page instead of a cfc with returnformat="json"?... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 Application Specific Mappings Work With The CFComponent Extends Attribute

  Posted on Jun 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM

  We use application level variables to map our CFCs, like so: <cfset application.cfc.udf = createObject("component","cfc.UDF") /> These are run once variables in the onApplicationStart(). Would I be able to use application level mappings (this.mappings) to define my cfc paths?... read more »

• Preventing Default Actions In A Bubbled Event In jQuery

  Posted on Jun 13, 2009 at 6:38 PM

  I usually target anchors specifically with a ev.preventDefault() and override to whatever behavior I wish. I've not tested this, but judging by the online documentation ... if I were to do preventDefault() on my anchors and bind some event to the ul, jQuery would still bubble up and I could even ... read more »