Sam Farmer

Recent Blog Comments By Sam Farmer

• After 2013, I'm Looking Forward To 2014

  Posted on Jan 3, 2014 at 9:18 AM

  All the best Ben. I hope things turn around this year.... read more »

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

  Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 10:29 AM

  @Jim, "But when you try to use for-in, it throws something about trying to reference a complex object as a scalar or something and lists it as a java object" 99% sure that is fixed in CF10. Its an annoying bug for sure.... read more »

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

  Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:49 AM

  We agree on this one :) Great addition.... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:12 AM

  Many ways to skin a cat.... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM

  If your that worried about scoping your code is not modular enough! ;) (I realize on older code bases this might not be a possible change). And is it that big of a deal considering that query scope goes above everything else? You still have access to the helper variables, currentRow, etc, as show... read more »

• How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation

  Posted on Dec 29, 2011 at 5:58 PM

  I like the approach that Gary outlines via XHR. That said the other approaches are valid based on the application. ValidateThis makes it very easy to set up both server and client validation.... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 6:59 PM

  @Ben: Cool. Now I want to read his book as well!... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM

  Interesting post Ben. If possible #5 is the way to go. The best programmers are generally creative people and they perform best when comfortable and motivated on a more holistic level. Other factors will also shape this like having monthly one-on-ones instead of annual reviews. Watch this fantas... read more »

• jQuery Events: MouseOver / MouseOut vs. MouseEnter / MouseLeave

  Posted on Jan 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM

  Ben, Thanks for posting this...I am right in the middle of trying to solve this problem and this works awesomely. The only difference is I am using ExtJS 3 and it works just the same. As an aside I'm finding a lot of similarities between ExtJS and jQuery.... read more »

• NYC + Snow + ColdFusion + jQuery = Winter Wonderland

  Posted on Dec 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM

  Awesome!... read more »

• Creating Globally Accessible User Defined Functions In ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM

  @Ben Very cool find. I'm pretty torn whether its a good idea or not though. On one hand its very cool and useful. On the other it could be a debugging clusterf**k since its added at the server level when really it should be at the application level. Then there is the issue that what happens wh... read more »

• My BFusion / BFLEX Keynote Address

  Posted on Oct 24, 2009 at 5:36 PM

  Great speech and a very interesting point of view. Out of interest did you use slides as well or did you do this old skool and just speak?... read more »

• ColdFusion's OnMissingTemplate() Event Handler Works With CFC Requests

  Posted on Aug 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM

  I've always thought this was a cool feature but not one I can work out something to do with it!... read more »

• ColdFusion 8's OnMissingTemplate() - So Close To Being Good

  Posted on Jul 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM

  Due to how requests work its not really possible for CF to act as a URL rewiriter since those happen before the web server decides where to send the request which is where CF comes to the party. As with any technology they have advantages and disadvantages including some advantages over standard UR... read more »

• ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo

  Posted on Jun 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM

  @Dave: All cfforms within cflayout or cfdiv will submit via AJAX. Have you tried putting the iframe outside of all the cflayout tags?... read more »

• Regular Expressions With Repeated Groups

  Posted on Apr 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM

  @Ben: Yet again you saved me a hell of a lot of time with this post! Thanks.... read more »

• My 1,000th ColdFusion Post - What It Means To Me (And Free Prizes)

  Posted on Jan 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM

  I forgot to add my why cf: i love cf because it makes the hard things easy and seems to "think" the same way I do. Or it has trained me to think that way...hmmm....... read more »

• My 1,000th ColdFusion Post - What It Means To Me (And Free Prizes)

  Posted on Jan 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM

  Congrats that is a great achievement and thanks for some great posts that have saved me a lot of time.... read more »

• Apple iPhone 3G Has Been Extremely Frustrating

  Posted on Aug 27, 2008 at 9:36 AM

  Sounds like a lemon. Have you tried taking it back to apple?... read more »

• ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo

  Posted on Aug 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM

  @Ben: I was merging this with a whole bunch of other JS and things got a little too complicated. So I added a permanent iframe to the page and always post to that (which is fine for my use case) and it solved the "always thinking" issue. Not sure what the cause was but thought that might help. Lo... read more »