andy matthews

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• The Anatomy Of An INNER JOIN Query In SQL

  Posted on Aug 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM

  Nice job explaining Ben. Would be interesting to get Brent Ozar or Rudy Limeback's opinion on these performance gains.... read more »

• Nested Views, Routing, And Deep Linking With AngularJS

  Posted on Jan 14, 2013 at 10:08 AM

  Hey Ben... Are you simply exploring Angular or is this your JS framework of choice? I have an open source app that I found which uses Angular. Originally I was a little turned off by it, but after I whittled down all the unnecessary includes it looks fairly simple.... read more »

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

  Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM

  This is a great breakdown Ben. I'm right there with you, in fact you're probably further along than I am. What I'd like to see is a directory structure of files and folders on how you'd organize code a simple app which uses MVC. index.cfm -- models ----user.cfc -- views ---- display_users.cfm -- c... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Looping Over Queries Using A For-In Loop In CFScript

  Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:47 AM

  Hey Ben...you've got a typo in the first para. "perviously required".... read more »

• ColdFusion Supports HTTP Verbs PUT And DELETE (As Well As GET And POST)

  Posted on Feb 3, 2012 at 3:47 PM

  Josh Cyr posted this on Twitter just a little bit ago. Thought it was appropriate. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619152/how-to-create-rest-urls-without-verbs/1619677#1619677... read more »

• ColdFusion Supports HTTP Verbs PUT And DELETE (As Well As GET And POST)

  Posted on Feb 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM

  You can also perform HEAD requests. This essentially "pings" the server and retrieves ONLY the HTTP headers for the requested page. I used it in HTML/JS AIR applications when I needed to test for connectivity. Do a HEAD request and flip the networked flag based on the response.... read more »

• Loading GitHub Gists After The Page Content Has Loaded

  Posted on Jan 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM

  Wouldn't it be more ideal to store the id of the gist on the div which will contain it? This your HTML could be more appropriately written: <div class="placeholder" data-gistID="1600811">Loading...</div> Then you don't need to include ANY JS code on your page other ... read more »

• Decoding Morse Code With JavaScript

  Posted on Oct 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM

  http://goo.gl/rCq5T How did you figure out how to decode the morse code? How would you know the difference between one set of 3 dots and 1 dot and 2 dots separately?... read more »

• A Billion Wicked Thoughts By Ogi Ogas And Sai Gaddam

  Posted on Aug 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM

  While not Ben's normal style of content it's totally within his sphere of searching. Ben, you may have the largest desire to learn of anyone I know.... read more »

• Using Four-Sided Positioning In CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

  Posted on Aug 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM

  Just like Flex. It's very nice, but you have to be careful about using padding for the container being position. It'll throw things off. User margins on inner children to push them away from the edges.... read more »

• ColdFusion Queries Do Not Throw Out-Of-Bounds Errors

  Posted on Jun 22, 2011 at 10:04 AM

  Is this new behavior? I seem to recall that it USED to error when referring to a row that didn't exist. I could be wrong though.... read more »

• Special $ References In JavaScript's String.replace() Method

  Posted on May 25, 2011 at 10:11 AM

  Nice one Ben. I can see the usefulness of having the entire match available.... read more »

• Programmatically Completing A List Of Movie Showtimes In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM

  What was the impetus behind this code Ben? What problem were you trying to solve?... read more »

• Node.js Training And Node.js Hosting With Nodejitsu

  Posted on Apr 26, 2011 at 11:45 AM

  Excellent blog post by the way Ben. I've told you before, but I really appreciate the fact that you include not only your code, but your thought processes during development. I think it helps other people relate to their own personal approach.... read more »

• Node.js Training And Node.js Hosting With Nodejitsu

  Posted on Apr 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM

  I've been reading a lot about Node, and seeing even more people talking about how awesome it is. But I have one question. What's the point? Honestly, I'm not understanding the benefit of using Node over Apache (or does Node run on top of Apache?). It's all well and good to use Javascript for "... read more »

• Using Slice(), Substring(), And Substr() In Javascript

  Posted on Mar 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM

  It makes sense when you think that you can inspect a JS array and see a string representation of it.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Running ColdFusion Asynchronously - Caveman Style

  Posted on Nov 30, 2007 at 8:49 PM

  Depending on what it's being used for you could also use a hearbeat type plugin with jQuery. Alternately, you could refresh the page to itself with a meta refresh. Low-tech and utterly simple.... read more »

• Project HUGE: Max Squat Is Watching Over Me

  Posted on Sep 16, 2007 at 8:47 PM

  Love the dialogue between you and Max. Too funny.... read more »

• Tiny Change In ColdFusion Coding Methodology

  Posted on Aug 25, 2007 at 12:07 AM

  Just a note that you should ALWAYS be coding your HTML in lower case. That's part of the xHTML standard. Tags and attributes in lowercase, all values quoted, all tags closed (or self-closed) correctly. Please continue.... read more »

• Encountered "(. Incorrect Select Statement, Expecting a 'FROM', But Encountered '(' Instead, A Select Statement Should Have a 'FROM' Construct.

  Posted on Mar 31, 2007 at 11:43 PM

  Okay... In this case, the solution was ot both bracket AND alias the questionable column. So this works: SELECT [date] AS thedate FROM QofQ... read more »