David Droddy

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• When To Use \N And $N As Regular Expression Back-References

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 9:49 AM

  Homesite+ was also my introduction to ReGex. Back then, the "extended" find/replace feature made it easy to include line breaks, even in your RegEx--as long as you put them in as literals! That's sort of contrary to RegEx and probably stunted my growth/understanding of RegEx overall. I'm generally ... read more »

• When To Use \N And $N As Regular Expression Back-References

  Posted on May 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM

  I was always annoyed by the difference between how Homesite+ implemented RegEx backreference for find/replace and how CF does it. Why would the (admittedly old) CF IDE use a different backreference than CF itself?... read more »

• Using Postmark To Track User Data Through Email Bounce Backs

  Posted on Apr 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM

  How did you come to know about Postmark?... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: The Poison Of Sarcasm

  Posted on Apr 13, 2010 at 1:45 PM

  This is similar to the sentiment that stood out the most to me in Conan O'Brian's farewell words: "All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere." I was a little shocked at first. I often consider one of the s... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM

  "shootin' at the walls of heart ache, bang bang! I am the wareeyuh."... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM

  Several weeks ago I went to Cuba for a 2 week vacation to see in-laws there. I didn't realize it until I came back to work but I shed a lot of parasites in Cuba and I definitely didn't bring Che or Fidel back with me. I suppose spending some real time in any "communist" or "socialist" Military Dict... read more »

• Is Simulating User-Input Events With jQuery Ever A Good Idea?

  Posted on Feb 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM

  @Ben, Is there a way to subscribe to one of your posts (comments) without commenting on it?... read more »

• Nora Ephron vs. Meg Ryan: What Is That We Love?

  Posted on Jul 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM

  Joe V. Volcano is ENTIRELY rediculous--that's what made it so good. Tom Hanks really nailed that one too!!... read more »

• Voiding Click Events Implicitly With jQuery Plugin: voidClick()

  Posted on Jun 19, 2009 at 5:26 PM

  For forms, you should check out the jquery.form plugin. It's pretty slick!... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM

  I'd like to submit my vote for the "straw man" theory!... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM

  Put the complexity into the Method, rather than the flow control/logic. The method name should be simple: GetSomething() The params passed in should be a set of optional params--obviously, SOMETHING should be passed in--but the signature of what is passed should be used by the method to determine... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM

  @Ben, It would look more like this: GetAssetAndProject(assetId, projectId) That method could, ultimately, handle multiple signatures. You might create a case for: GetAssetAndProject(userId) and another for: GetAssetAndProject(accountId, loginId) Basically, write the Method so that you can get... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 12:02 PM

  @Brian, I'm not sure about CF9 but nHybernate is definitely all about ORM.... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 11:48 AM

  @Tony seems to have hit it on the head! In .NET development, there is an add-on called nHybernate. Once you set up some XML mapping in your application, you just make calls to a DAO and pass in parameters that are used by the DAO to automatically run just the right query and return just the right da... read more »