Larry C. Lyons
Member since Dec 11, 2008
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Recent Blog Comments By Larry C. Lyons
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The User Experience (UX) Of Having One Computer Monitor
Posted on May 7, 2014 at 5:11 PM
I tried 3 monitors (15" MacBook Pro plus 2 monitors) but really did not like it - too many issues I found. I found that the third monitor didn't have a good enough response (I used a USB monitor input) to be truly useful. What I find that works the best is 1 24" monitor which has the mai... read more »
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Keep Overflow Content Scrolling Unresponsive Until Clicked Using jQuery
Posted on Jan 16, 2014 at 11:32 AM
Hey Dan, I tried your pure css demo for this. The CSS changed on the mouse click but as soon as the mouse button was up the div reverted back to the unresponsive class. Just a heads up. larry... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Anna, getting your finger pricked - you need to change your lancet and set the depth to a lower number (assuming a blood glucose test here). In fact you probably don't need hypnosis at all, it sounds like your methods would be just as effective as using something like progressive relaxation etc. ... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Aug 2, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Um arousal used in a different way I think Anna. If you have access to a university library you may want to look up this article: Temperament and personality: Origins and outcomes. Rothbart, Mary K.; Ahadi, Stephan A.; Evans, David E. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 78(1), Jan 200... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Jul 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM
@Julian, it goes back even further. The ancient greek philosophers postulated four temperaments, one of which maps very nicely to extraversion. The cool stuff about Pavlov's and other Russian works is how it maps a personality trait to low level physiological responses to stimuli. @Ben That's one o... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Actually I've done some of that research myself. The whole area of Extraversion and arousability (yes that is a word) comes from an area of research that was championed by Pavlov - his concept of the strength of the nervous system. One way to look at extraversion according to this theory is not only... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Classic introverts would never have been in that position in the first place. Classic series of studies done out of Eysenck's lab in the 60's looked at SCR readings and other measures of arousal. Generally those classified by their lab as introverts were ar more physiologically reactive to the envir... read more »
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Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Gee Ben are you tracking my grad school career. Let me know when you get into hypnosis. I'm rather skeptical of the filter idea of introversion and extraversion - its been around since A. Petrie's work in the 1950's. We just have not found enough information that supports it. That said, you can pre... read more »
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ColdFusion 10 Beta, Apache Tomcat, And Symbolic Links On Mac OSX
Posted on Mar 2, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Cool. I am definitely going to have to try that on my MacBook Pro - its a similar setup to yours so thanks for the install tips.... read more »
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-Being By Martin Seligman
Posted on Jul 22, 2011 at 9:47 AM
RIACon being that close slammed me too. I thought the same about the date. From what I remember it was initially announced for around the end of August. I wonder what was the reason for the date change.... read more »
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-Being By Martin Seligman
Posted on Jul 20, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Well ben if you're going to be at RIACon on August 6-7 you may be able to. Martin Seligman is a former president of the American Psychological Association. The 2011 APA Annual Convention runs from Aug. 4-7 in Washington, D.C., so Seligman may be giving some talks during that time. Its an idea.... read more »
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-Being By Martin Seligman
Posted on Jul 14, 2011 at 7:57 AM
I had the fortune to meet Dr. Seligman during my grad student career at the APA annual conference in the late 90's. What you describe is about the best way to do psych experiments following Cook and Campbell's design guidelines. Unfortunately its difficult to pull off properly, especially when you'r... read more »
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-Being By Martin Seligman
Posted on Jun 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM
Martin Seligman is a very interesting scientist. You read his research on learned helplessness in intro psych and in your first course in learning theory. But those brief discussions give absolutely no indication of the sheer elegance of his experimental designs. As for flow, that's only extreme a... read more »
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What If ColdFusion Recognized More Truthy / Falsey Values
Posted on Mar 25, 2011 at 2:55 PM
@henrique There is reason for using the len(trim()) or len() type of evaluation. Evaluating a boolean or a number is much more efficient and faster than doing an string evaluation like <cfif string neq "">.... read more »
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What If ColdFusion Recognized More Truthy / Falsey Values
Posted on Mar 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM
A minor quibble Ben, in this section: # ( # isSimpleValue( arguments.value ) && # !len( arguments.value ) # ) only works if the simple value is truly empty. What about when there is a space or similar value? For most practical purposes a value with an space is also empty. Accordingly I'd m... read more »
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OOPhoto - A Painful Transition To Object-Based Controllers
Posted on Feb 3, 2011 at 4:23 PM
@will-i-am I'd look at something much simple Framework/1 - http://fw1.riaforge.org/. I think you'll find it to be much easier to learn OO in a CF context. From the site: -- FW/1 - Framework One - leverages Application.cfc and some simple conventions to provide a 'full' MVC framework in a single ... read more »
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Appending One Array To Another With ArrayAppendAll() In ColdFusion
Posted on Nov 19, 2010 at 4:46 PM
You know Ben, CF underlying Java core works better for this. ColdFusion arrays are actually an implementation of java list (java.util.List). So all the java list methods can easily be used with CF. So to merge two arrays (which is essentially what you're doing) use the list.addAll() method. For ins... read more »
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JRUN Servlet Error: coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.bindImportPath
Posted on Jun 25, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Don't know whether this will help, but my colleague Mike Henke has been exploring having multiple cf flavours running on JRun. His blog may help: http://www.henke.ws/post.cfm/multiple-coldfusion-version-and-engines-on-adobe-coldfusion-with-jrun That said you may want to dump JRun entirely and use T... read more »
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My Company, Epicenter Consulting, Is Looking For ColdFusion Developers
Posted on Jun 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Um Ben I was curious about the interface driven architecture idea. So I clicked on your link. There was nothing there just a placeholder page. Could you give some more information about your interface driven architecture idea. from the sounds of it, its similar to an approach I've uses for a while. ... read more »
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The Same CFID-CFTOKEN Values Are Used Across ColdFusion Session Timeouts
Posted on Mar 25, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Couldn't you also use a database to store client data? That would be much more secure than a cookie. From what I remember CF5 does let you use the db to store client dat.. Another idea would be to use browser session-only cookies which would be deleted as soon as the browser is closed.... read more »