Steven Neiland

Recent Blog Comments By Steven Neiland

• Tracking Page Request Metrics With Framework One (FW/1) And Lucee CFML

  Posted on Sep 25, 2019 at 8:19 AM

  Interesting, I'll add a ticket to the project to investigate further as a possible enhancement once I've gone through a few outstanding bug tickets.... read more »

• Dynamically Loading Java Classes From JAR Files Using CreateObject() In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 8, 2019 at 3:43 PM

  On the OSGi architecture, in order to use a different version of something that is part of the lucee core (or where you have already loaded an older version previously) you need to convert the jar file to an osgi bundle which will contain a manifest file specifying the version number of that... read more »

• Generating Random Passwords In ColdFusion Based On Sets Of Valid Characters

  Posted on Jun 10, 2014 at 11:05 AM

  Once again you save me time and effort by doing the work for me. These days I always put +bennadel into google when looking for ColdFusion answer quickly.... read more »

• I Finally Understand The Finally Part Of A Try/Catch Control Statement

  Posted on Apr 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM

  I can't believe I didnt notice the datestamp on this article. My bad lol... read more »

• I Finally Understand The Finally Part Of A Try/Catch Control Statement

  Posted on Apr 29, 2014 at 7:12 PM

  Ben, I can't speak to how it works in js, but in ColdFusion and I believe ruby the finally block is used when you have code that must run regardless of if an error occurs in the try block or in the catch block. For reference this article I wrote back in january http://www.neiland.net/blog/article/... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Feb 25, 2014 at 11:24 AM

  @Jansen, Exactly. In addition by keeping this separation you can make any changes you want to the model logic or storage without having to worry about changing the controllers or views.... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Feb 25, 2014 at 10:10 AM

  @Jansen, I don't agree with that terminology. The controller does not control the model. The controller controls the flow of the request cycle, it interacts with the model to request data or send commands to the model depending on the requested action, but the model logic itself is independent. Lik... read more »

• Chunking File Uploads With Plupload And ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM

  Hi Ben, I like the idea of chunking the upload but I have a question. At the start of the article you wrote: Plupload then uploads each one of these blobs with additional metadata about where it resides within the master file. It is then the responsibility of the server to take all of these binar... read more »

• After 2013, I'm Looking Forward To 2014

  Posted on Jan 3, 2014 at 3:12 PM

  Wow, Having lived with high anxiety and stress myself (I have a very high strung personality) I can really relate to how you have been feeling (in particular how you described fear of refreshing your inbox) ...but actually hearing you say that you have felt like this is astonishing. You are without ... read more »

• Separate Asynchronous Thread Logic From Your Business Logic

  Posted on Dec 23, 2013 at 11:08 AM

  This is actually very similar to the way I handle threading in my apps. I am a strong believer in not implementing logic inside a thread block but rather separating it out into an independent function exactly this way. Like you said this makes testing much easier. Where I differ is that I don't sep... read more »

• ColdFusion / JavaScript Genius? Join Me, And My Growing Team At InVisionApp.com!

  Posted on Jan 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM

  Hi Ben, I'd be interested as you know I'm pretty good with FW/1. My js skills though are really basic. Im actively working on improving my JS kungfu but I suspect you are looking for someone who can hit the ground running and I dont think that would be me as far as js.... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Aug 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM

  @Ben, Ah no worries, I know the feeling. The most important bit really is the save user example in the webshop2 code. I built it specifically with you in mind.... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Aug 3, 2012 at 3:37 PM

  @Ben, I finally got around to redoing my cfmeetup on mvc with fw/1. Links to the video, code and slide deck can be found on my blog. http://www.neiland.net/blog/article/crash-course-in-mvc-with-fw1/... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 12:18 PM

  I actually use this concept on my website for my tweet stream...which is cached as well. I guess I'll have to open my personal site code for ridicule :-)... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM

  @Ben, Unfortunately I dont have time to answer this in detail now ...but I cover this tonight on the cfmeetup.... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 11, 2012 at 1:58 PM

  @Russ, If you are interested in automating your unit tests I highly recommend Mike Henke's "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" build file. It covers virtually everything you could want including * java compilation check * mxunit testing * selenium testing * js listing * css linting * querypa... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With Jasmine And RequireJS

  Posted on Jul 9, 2012 at 3:46 PM

  Go Ben Go! Once you start TDD'ing the whole way you look at your code changes. MXUnit really is best in breed for cfml. I have not done js unit testing before myself so I was wondering what everyones opinion is on qUnit vs Jasmine?... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Jul 6, 2012 at 1:06 PM

  @All, For anyone interested, Charlie and I have setup a cfmeetup on this topic for next week on the 12th at 6pm. Titled: "A crash course in MVC with FW/1" http://www.tinyurl.com/cfmeetup... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Jun 13, 2012 at 4:54 PM

  @Anna, Ok that doesnt sound so bad. You scared me for a minute there. I had a picture of hundreds of Application.cfc files.... read more »

• A Better Understanding Of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Thanks To Steven Neiland

  Posted on Jun 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM

  @Anna, Im not sure if I read that right. Are you saying every single folder in your system has its own Application.cfc file? As in every single folder is its own application? If that is the case I'm going to borrow a phase from Dave and Scott. 'You're doing it wrong'. Im sorry if that sounds a b... read more »