andy matthews

Recent Blog Comments By andy matthews

• The Integer Division Operator In ColdFusion

  Posted on Oct 11, 2010 at 10:06 AM

  Very nice! Sad that it took this long to get that in, but way cool to know about it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention Ben!... read more »

• Experimenting With CSS-Based Animations And Transitions

  Posted on Jul 26, 2010 at 10:31 AM

  This might sound Luddish, but if you have to trigger the whole thing with JavaScript anyway, why bother with CSS animations? Just seems like extra work for something that only functions in the most recent iterations of browsers. Thoughts?... read more »

• The Desire To Change Those We Care About

  Posted on Jun 14, 2010 at 10:31 AM

  Change this line: I can't even hazard a guess as to how many times I've heard things like: to I can't even hazard a guess as to how many times Simon Free has told me things like: and you'll be a little more accurate. Well written post though. I believe that while we "shouldn't try to change those... read more »

• Default To The Numeric, Email, And URL Keyboards On The iPhone

  Posted on Jun 4, 2010 at 3:03 PM

  Thanks Ben. This helped me out in a web app I'm working on.... read more »

• The Arbor Day Web Development Team Planted Me Some Trees

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 5:50 PM

  Okay, okay. I'll be good. Anyway, that's a really cool gesture. 2 years ago my wife and I donated a cow on my Dad's behalf ( http://www.heifer.org/ ). We sure miss Mom. But seriously though, you donate money to purchase a cow for a poor village. They learn how to care for the animal, and have to ... read more »

• The Arbor Day Web Development Team Planted Me Some Trees

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM

  Hah! I'll have it in my pocket...the certificate that is.... read more »

• The Arbor Day Web Development Team Planted Me Some Trees

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM

  Is that desk in the back left corner where I get to sit when I'm there in June?... read more »

• The Arbor Day Web Development Team Planted Me Some Trees

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 5:05 PM

  So you're saying that some other people gave you wood?... read more »

• FLEX On jQuery: The Relative Power Of Link Elements

  Posted on Mar 3, 2010 at 10:41 AM

  What about a jQuery developer who wants to help you learn? I could easily see this leading to a more well constructed JS framework. PLEASE make sure you add data-binding in this framework! That's one of the things that I miss most about JS work vs Flex. Data binding rules.... read more »

• Programmatically Uploading Images To JING At ScreenCast.com Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM

  More importantly, I could see this being used in conjunction with AIR 2.0's native application integration process. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/... read more »

• Programmatically Uploading Images To JING At ScreenCast.com Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 8, 2010 at 9:57 AM

  Nice! Sure would be awesome if they released an API for Jing/Screencast!... read more »

• Using jQuery's SlideUp() and SlideDown() Methods With Bottom-Positioned Elements

  Posted on Jan 25, 2010 at 10:12 AM

  I've been making use of this functionality over at my freelance site: http://commadelimited.com/... read more »

• Project HUGE: Waking The Beast And My First Video Of 2010

  Posted on Jan 9, 2010 at 8:57 PM

  And your female readers all just went aflutter.... read more »

• Using Javascript's Function() Constructor To Deserialize JSON Data

  Posted on Dec 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM

  Doesn't appear to work that way. Must be something special in the constructor.... read more »

• Using Javascript's Function() Constructor To Deserialize JSON Data

  Posted on Dec 10, 2009 at 4:25 PM

  That's pretty sweet. I'd like to see some speed tests done on this code Ben. Wonder if you could just create a "deserializeJSON() method once and reuse it rather than creating a new one each time.... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 6:01 PM

  The REAL truth about Ben Nadel's scar! He got it at the debut of the newest Harry Potter movie: http://snurl.com/pm1ta He's in Gryffindor!... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 12:52 PM

  The real story behind Ben Nadel's scar - http://snurl.com/pldc2... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Resetting Applications With ApplicationStop()

  Posted on Jul 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM

  I'd love to comment on this, but there appears to be no documentation for ApplicationStop in Adobe's documentation: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WS890819DC-DE4D-4b24-A237-6E3483E9D6A1.html It mentions the method, but offers no link for a full definition.... read more »

• The Regular Expression Cookbook By Steven Levithan And Jan Goyvaerts

  Posted on Jul 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM

  Awesome Ben! I LOVE regular expressions. They make even basic text editing quicker, and more painless. I use them to quickly parse through large amounts of text, code, or the like. One of my personal favorites: [ \t]+$ I hate having tabs or spaces on blank lines, or at the end of lines. This litt... read more »

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

  Posted on Jul 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM

  I used to have a huge crush on Meg Ryan. I was devastated when Joe vs the Volcano was such a bomb.... read more »