Richard Brasier
Member since Oct 3, 2010
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Recent Blog Comments By Richard Brasier
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Pushing Base64-Encoded Images Over HTML5 WebSockets With Pusher And ColdFusion
Posted on Feb 3, 2012 at 10:14 PM
@Ben, Just wanted to let you know that pusher are soon to start limiting sizes on messages. This was the detail that came through in the Feb dispatch: "However, we will soon be limiting the size of messages we will accept on our REST API. More information will be available soon, follow us on... read more »
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The Science Of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us By Sheril Kirshenbaum
Posted on Feb 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM
Fascinating. I think this may be worth a read :D Oh, and did you know that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live an average of 5 years longer and earn 20-30 percent more income? Yeah, statistics are awesome! I love this stat.... read more »
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A Face That Calms Me
Posted on Jan 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM
For me I find people attractive based on whether or not we would get along with them. Which i can usually tell from looking at them. These people seem to fall outside of what 'most' people call as attractive, and as a result, like you my criteria has been called suspect by some. For example I find... read more »
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SQL Query Order of Operations
Posted on Nov 11, 2010 at 7:20 PM
@Ben, Cool - thanks for this info, handy to know. Just thought that something might be of interest. I recently attended an Oracle DBA course, and the instructor mentioned that in the newer versions of Oracle, it shouldnt matter how you throw your SQL statements, the database should tune itself to ... read more »
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Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document
Posted on Oct 29, 2010 at 4:23 PM
@Adam, Thanks a lot for the insight :) Im terrible at expressing myself in words, so I wasn't sure if I offended you earlier (sorry if I did, it was never my intention). Awesome, now to go remodel my db :)... read more »
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Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document
Posted on Oct 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM
@Adam, Myabe it was a bad idea to use slashdot as an example. I was just really trying to think of an example where there were alot of and comments and articles in that kind of structure. It was meant to be a theoretical question rather than realistic.... read more »
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Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document
Posted on Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 PM
@Adam, Like @Ben, it also took me a while to get my head around the nested set model - and it didnt seem practical enough for me to want to use it. Maybe i should take another read... I imagine the performance hit would be completely dependant on the record set you were working on. If a heirarc... read more »
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Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document
Posted on Oct 28, 2010 at 6:27 PM
@Rafe, Oh man I wished I had found that udf before today - thanks for that link :)... read more »
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Ask Ben: Converting A Parent-Child Data Table Into A Nested XML Document
Posted on Oct 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM
@Frank & @Ben, I know how you feel. I always try to do this on the DB side if possible. I have always worked with Oracle DB's at work, and when i tried to this on my own projects on MySQL at home I quickly got frustrated. I found Oracle's connect by (http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/connect_by... read more »
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An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)
Posted on Oct 5, 2010 at 10:58 PM
@Ben, I honestly don't think you need any more praise with regards to your great work with making this video - but i thought i would give you some anyway :) I am a very recent convert to jQuery, and like you i think I cant go back. The Ajaxy stuff seems way to simple. Thanks alot dude. ps. I ... read more »
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The Social Network Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, And Justin Timberlake
Posted on Oct 3, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Doesnt come here in Australia till Oct 28... read more »
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The Social Network Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, And Justin Timberlake
Posted on Oct 3, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Ben, I feel exactly the same way - if I was rich, I would just code all day. I think I do get to a state of flow from time to time. It's generally not the 4am kind, but all of a sudden I will look up from the screen at it will be night. I have started to get this kind of state on my own project. ... read more »