Hal Helms

Recent Blog Comments By Hal Helms

• Tales Of Revolution And A Sense Of Community

  Posted on Apr 21, 2011 at 6:42 PM

  Major congratulations, Ben! And well-deserved.... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Ruby - Day 1

  Posted on Nov 23, 2010 at 1:34 PM

  I really like the unless and if operators used like that. Here was some code I was doing last night: @super_programmer = SuperProgrammer.find_by_last_name( "Nadel" ) return false if @super_programmer.nil? Now, we know that given this *particular* search, it would never return false, but... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Ruby - Day 1

  Posted on Nov 21, 2010 at 12:44 PM

  Ben, you can do a for loop in Ruby: for i in 0..5 puts "Value of local variable is #{i}" end It's just that most Rubyists prefer the (to my eye) nicer approaches such as range.... read more »

• Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide To Learning Programming Languages By Bruce Tate

  Posted on Nov 20, 2010 at 2:45 PM

  Glad you're doing this as a series, Ben! We get to be armchair explorers as you do the hard work. Thanks.... read more »

• Simple Publication And Subscription Functionality (Pub/Sub) With jQuery

  Posted on Oct 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM

  Ben, interesting stuff! I started to write a comment on two reasons why trying to prevent event propagation isn't viable, but it expanded itself into a blog post involving parallel universes: http://www.halhelms.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/10/18/Preventing-Event-Propagation-in-EventDriven-Programming.... read more »

• jQuery Template Markup Langauge (JTML) vs. jQuery Templates

  Posted on Oct 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM

  Nice work, Ben! Many thanks for your continuing explorations.... read more »

• Using Named Functions Within Self-Executing Function Blocks In Javascript

  Posted on Aug 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM

  Nice, Ben. Thanks for the smarts!... read more »

• jQuery UI 1.7 By Dan Wellman

  Posted on Nov 23, 2009 at 9:28 AM

  Thanks for the review, Ben!... read more »

• My BFusion / BFLEX Keynote Address

  Posted on Oct 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM

  Nicely done, Ben!!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Detecting When DOM Elements Have Been Removed With jQuery

  Posted on Jun 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM

  Nice job, Ben!... read more »

• Voiding Click Events Implicitly With jQuery Plugin: voidClick()

  Posted on Jun 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM

  Not silly at all, Ben. Very nice: it's on little things like these that large productivity increases are built.... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM

  @Brian Good point, Brian.... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM

  @Ben What's so wrong with inline queries? That IS an excellent question, Ben. I think the main reason against having them is that, IF that same query is needed elsewhere, you have duplication of code -- never good. But if the queries really have different purposes and only accidentally have some of ... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM

  @Tony Then, I suppose, beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. It is perhaps due to my initial experience of being a craftsman, but I find no appeal to these big "do-it-all" approaches, whether in methods or queries. My father used to say, of certain things, "It's too clever -- by half." That pr... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 2:57 PM

  @Sean Yes, if multiple queries really have the same (or very similar) functionality, aggregating them into one or a few makes good sense to me. I've found it very helpful when making optimization implementations to ask myself the question, "Are these things that seem similar NECESSARILY the same o... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM

  @Matt I'm glad we see eye-to-eye on this. In fact, I've been secretly working on a major framework that will make all others obsolete. It's the ultimate in reusability, having a single command: do(). Now, granted, there are a LOT of arguments for this, but one can (hopefully) see the brilliance of m... read more »

• Why My Queries Hate Application Service Layers

  Posted on Jun 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM

  Remind me again: what exactly is so great about reusable queries?... read more »

• The New BenNadel.com - Same Content, Fresh New Look

  Posted on May 12, 2009 at 2:35 AM

  Looks great, Ben. Nice work.... read more »

• Form Helpers And Domain Objects As Data Types In Object Oriented Programming

  Posted on Apr 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM

  That, in fact, is exactly my argument, Nando. It's why I also don't like the Active Record Pattern much loved by Ruby on Rail fans.... read more »

• Form Helpers And Domain Objects As Data Types In Object Oriented Programming

  Posted on Apr 7, 2009 at 7:03 PM

  @Ben I agree with you, Ben. We're not in the object model at all. In fact, all this can be done without ever using domain objects, if that's appropriate for the application. Really, this stuff isn't that hard!... read more »