Matt Gifford

Recent Blog Comments By Matt Gifford

• Executing A Recursive CFThread In ColdFusion 9

  Posted on Feb 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM

  Great post Ben. Although there may not be any necessity for such functions (yet, anyway.. you may have stumbled across a life-changing bit of code here ;) ) the fact remains that once again you've taken the time to explore and delve further into the code and it's underlying assets, always asking "w... read more »

• BenNadel.com Gets Its First Valentine!

  Posted on Feb 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM

  Erm.... wow.. *speechless*... read more »

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

  Posted on May 11, 2009 at 4:35 AM

  Great design Ben! I will miss the old layout though. *ah, the memories* Keep up the amazing work.... read more »

• June 1st 2008 - National Regular Expression Day! (Post A Comment, Win A Prize)

  Posted on Feb 13, 2009 at 4:38 AM

  Can we have international reg ex day 2009? I think we've got to keep this thing rolling! :) I'll help where I can... read more »

• Using A Rough Box Model To Gather Near-By Zip Codes

  Posted on Feb 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM

  Great follow up, Ben. Fantastic to see the changes, and the google map implementation.... read more »

• Finding The Distance Between Latitude / Longitude Locations In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM

  Hey Ben excellent component. I've been playing around with latitude and longitude for a few years on and off, but being in the UK have been restricted with 'free' data to work with (the Royal Mail charge a fortune for their database of UK postcodes per licence), and the UK geocoding using the Googl... read more »

• KinkyTwits Update: Filter Groups Based On Include/Exclude Screen Names

  Posted on Feb 3, 2009 at 4:01 AM

  It keeps getting better! Thanks Ben!... read more »

• KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client (Beta)

  Posted on Feb 2, 2009 at 9:50 AM

  Congratulations Ben. You've put so much hard work into this, and I've been watching it ever since the first Alpha release. You should be very proud, and thank you for releasing it to the CF community.... read more »

• Winners Of My 1,000th ColdFusion Post

  Posted on Jan 26, 2009 at 10:10 AM

  Awesome! Thanks Ben. You've made my Monday afternoon complete! And with a truly 'Nadel' way of solving the winners. :) Thank you... read more »

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

  Posted on Jan 26, 2009 at 4:06 AM

  Congratulations, Ben! That is a serious landmark. In regards to the 'is CF dead' argument that has been swamping my blog posts and twitter account for the last few weeks, every one has their opinion, but most if not ALL CF developers I work with, have spoken to, or know in ANY way (however vague) a... read more »

• ColdFusion Query of Queries Creates BIGINT Values When Hard Coding Integers

  Posted on Jan 22, 2009 at 7:29 AM

  Thanks Ben. I just fell into this exact same trap, and thankfully there you were to guide me out. Cheers... read more »

• The Way Of The Warrior And The Chance Not To Be Fired

  Posted on Jan 7, 2009 at 4:29 AM

  Hey Ben You sound like a true gentleman and a calm, peaceful human being. To be honest, your reactions to the situation highlight what type of person you are, and I personally believe you handled it with diginity and honesty. In regards to the final 'issue' and backing up your response with 'legal... read more »

• KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client

  Posted on Oct 6, 2008 at 10:16 AM

  Hi Ben This is fantastic, and as usual it holds your distinctive style on the page. Please could I have a look at the source code? Many thanks, Matt... read more »

• Using XML Style Name Space Attributes In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 20, 2008 at 5:15 AM

  Awesome. I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm reading in an RSS feed and creating a fresh one using CF8, compliant with iTunes namespace for podcasting. I need to add in ns details like "itunes:author" but CF isn't liking the way I'm doing it. The feed compiles perfectl... read more »

• ColdFusion Application.cfc Tutorial And Application.cfc Reference

  Posted on Jan 29, 2008 at 6:38 AM

  Hi Ben great tutorials and files (as ever). Thank you for everything you blog and share. I'm a CF developer of over two years, but (ashamed to say) never used application.cfc before. I am also on a CF8 server, and want to create a mapping to a directory to use for custom tags. I have heard that th... read more »