Tony Petruzzi

Recent Blog Comments By Tony Petruzzi

• Big Girls Like Me

  Posted on Aug 26, 2007 at 12:50 AM

  Tip for all geeks guy: If you're dying to meet women and need to get in shape, join yoga, forget the gym or clubs. Trust me on this. I did yoga hardcore for about 2 years and still do it now from time to time (marriage gets in the way), Anywho, all I can say is that I was 1 of 3 guys in the class w... read more »

• Big Girls Like Me

  Posted on Aug 25, 2007 at 5:40 PM

  believe me when I tell you that a little fluff on a women is WAAAAY better then a skinny girl. Skinny girls hurt hips, if you know what I mean. Now personally I was not the one to date an overly obese girl, but she did have to have enough on her.... read more »

• I Just Can't Understand Object Oriented Programming (OOP) And Join Tables

  Posted on Aug 18, 2007 at 4:30 PM

  @Emanuel That has to be the sexy thing I've seen. I wish I could do that in MSSQL.... read more »

• I Just Can't Understand Object Oriented Programming (OOP) And Join Tables

  Posted on Aug 18, 2007 at 2:42 PM

  @Emanuel i would love to see the code for that.... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: CFDirectory Improvements

  Posted on Aug 1, 2007 at 9:46 AM

  So they still don't have the created date information. I think this was request ages ago.... read more »

• I Just Felt The Awesome Power Of SQL Table Indexing (Thanks Nate Nelson!)

  Posted on Jul 12, 2007 at 9:32 PM

  BTW To learn more about databases and performance, I would suggest you read the SQL Authority blog: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/ and who could forget the SQL Server Performance website: http://www.sql-server-performance.com/... read more »

• I Just Felt The Awesome Power Of SQL Table Indexing (Thanks Nate Nelson!)

  Posted on Jul 12, 2007 at 9:28 PM

  Welcome grasshopper, we've been waiting for you. Now you need to learn the value of clustered indexes and indexed views and you can squeeze even more out of your database. Just be careful when using indexes that you don't go ape and start indexing even single column in your table. A good and very... read more »

• jQuery Plugin To Return Delimited Value List Of Stack Element Attributes

  Posted on Jul 11, 2007 at 6:21 PM

  Ben, Thank you for all your help today. :)... read more »

• Warning: Don't Stick Your iPhone In The Blender

  Posted on Jul 11, 2007 at 2:44 PM

  the company is called Blendtec and they do this all the time. All their videos get viral play around the net.... read more »

• The Miracle Fruit (Miraculous Berry) Turns Sour To Sweet

  Posted on Jun 18, 2007 at 2:04 PM

  imagine taking this along with sugarest :P http://www.nbc5i.com/healthnews/13298522/detail.html that would be freaky... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: Implicit Struct And Array Creation

  Posted on May 31, 2007 at 10:58 AM

  Ben, If I were you I would file a bug report on this and send them a link to this page. Great work!... read more »

• Always Define Your ColdFusion Query Column Types

  Posted on May 25, 2007 at 4:47 PM

  call me stupid, be isn't it: <cfset qID = QueryNew( "id", "VARCHAR" ) />... read more »

• SQL Server Text Matching Is Case INSENSITIVE

  Posted on May 23, 2007 at 1:12 PM

  welcome Ben, we've been waiting for you :P... read more »

• ColdFusion DateTimeFormat() Utility Function

  Posted on May 22, 2007 at 11:58 AM

  @Ray, Are you ever going to just integrate cflib into riaforge?... read more »

• Defining A CSS Selector That Requires A Multi-Class Union

  Posted on May 4, 2007 at 4:17 PM

  http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/multiclass.html :)... read more »

• Defining A CSS Selector That Requires A Multi-Class Union

  Posted on May 4, 2007 at 3:16 PM

  Ben, Have you taken your code and viewed it in IE 6.0 yet? I'll bet you'll be surprised that the "Only two" text color will be white.... read more »

• Using BitAnd() To Determine Odd / Even Rows (Thanks Tony Petruzzi)

  Posted on Apr 30, 2007 at 7:40 PM

  this post brought a tear to my eye ;) @Sam Extremely interesting indeed. I wonder if any CF developers at Adobe could tell us that. @Barney I agree with you hands down. Although the bitand method is really cool and it is good to have an understanding of bitwise logic under your belt, readability... read more »

• And On The Seventh Row, MOD Created 1, And It Was Good

  Posted on Apr 30, 2007 at 2:29 PM

  thanks for props guys. But like most of the cool ideas in my head, they all have an originating source, though most of the time I don't remember where :P Is a discussion on the CF Cookbook about this topic: http://www.coldfusioncookbook.com/entry/53/How-do-I-determine-if-a-number-is-even-or-odd... read more »

• And On The Seventh Row, MOD Created 1, And It Was Good

  Posted on Apr 30, 2007 at 10:12 AM

  @ben, learned this trick a LOOOONG time ago: Instead of using MOD to find out if a number is ODD or EVEN, use BITAND(). An example: BitAnd(8,1) would return 0 which means it's EVEN BitAnd(5,1) woudl return 1 which means it's ODD Using the MOD function, CF must internally perform a lot of calcula... read more »

• Thank You New York City Fire Department!

  Posted on Apr 9, 2007 at 9:58 AM

  I'm a smoker and this is why I have strict rules that noone, not even myself, smoke in my house. I you want to smoke, do it outside. I've seen to many accidents in my life with cigarettes and flammable fabrics.... read more »