April 2006 Web Log Entries
Meetup.com Groups Are Sweeeeet.
Posted: April 30, 2006 at 3:49 PM by Ben Nadel
I just joined some groups at Meetup.com . It's such a great site. For about a year, I have only been part of the ColdFusion user's group. And, that's been great, but then last night it suddenly dawned on me: there's more groups out there. So I joined one for Java, Javascript, and signed up for notifications regarding CSS groups. And, what's eve... read more »
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Great XHtml Editor, Even Better Support Team
Posted: April 28, 2006 at 12:36 PM by Ben Nadel
I just want to give props to the support team at XStandard . As you might know, I think that XStandard is the best XHtml WYSIWYG editor around. I also think that the XStandard support team is amazing. No matter what problem I have, they have the solution. And more often then not, they have answers for you within a few hours. I can't even get resp... read more »
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Gotta Help a Guy Out (funny site)
Posted: April 27, 2006 at 3:42 PM by Ben Nadel
It may not be your dream, but you have to respect someone's passion. Help a guy out . ... read more »
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Working Around Hot Linking Restrictions
Posted: April 27, 2006 at 1:14 PM by Ben Nadel
I was testing out my new functions JREGetNoCase() and JREGet() (uses Java regular expressions to return all matching substrings of a given string) by attempting to grab IMG tags off of random web sites: <!--- Get the images for this page. ---> <cfset arrImages = JREGetNoCase( objHttpRequest.FileContent, "<a[^>]+href=""?([^"">... read more »
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Getting Group By Count In Left Outer Join
Posted: April 26, 2006 at 4:28 PM by Ben Nadel
Sometimes I amazed that I just miss the most obvious solutions. I was running a query that had a left outer join on a list of vendors, joining to orders (purchase orders). I wanted to get the count of orders per vendor, so I was just getting the COUNT(*) of the Group BY. The problem with this technique is that the COUNT(*) counts the vendor in t... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Revisiting
Posted: April 25, 2006 at 2:37 PM by Ben Nadel
I have been playing around with the Urls that I use internally to the site. Some links have been using search engine optimized links (like ./snippets/) and some use the DAX (Divide and Conquer, like "?dax=blog.search"). At first it seemed that Google was not indexing the dynamic DAX pages (while Jeeves, Yahoo, and other search engines where); howe... read more »
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Wolf Creek a Total Waste of Time
Posted: April 25, 2006 at 7:45 AM by Ben Nadel
Just saw the Australian movie "Wolf Creek" on DVD. I had heard nothing but good things about it. People said it was one of the best horror / thriller movies they had seen in a long time. It was a pile of poop. Not only did nothing happen in the film, but you totally cannot sympathize with any of the characters. They are all lame, unmotivated, and ... read more »
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Getting Back Into The Gym
Posted: April 25, 2006 at 7:40 AM by Ben Nadel
Trying to get back into the gym again . I have been out of the game for a while do to schedule and a shoulder that seems to hurt on any pressing movements. I suspect the shoulder injury is due to muscular imbalances in favor of the anterior shoulder. So, I am concentrating on heavy legs and back to try to balance out my shouulders. I am going to ... read more »
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MIT Students Go to Las Vegas
Posted: April 22, 2006 at 2:29 PM by Ben Nadel
I just watched this show on the Discovery Channel about MIT students who went to Las Vegas to make tons of money counting cards in Black Jack. They were imporoving upon an existing card counting technique discovered by a different MIT professor some years earlier. It's amazing how smart smoe people are. I like to think that I am a fairly bright fe... read more »
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Blog Updates
Posted: April 21, 2006 at 2:44 PM by Ben Nadel
My blog is slowly coming along. You can not add comments (sort of)... but the formatting is zero and it needs some work. But don't worry, I am working on it. ... read more »
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If You Think Flattery Will Get You Anywhere...
Posted: April 21, 2006 at 2:13 PM by Ben Nadel
Well, that's where you're right. An old boss of mine made a very endearing comment in an email the other day (to an associate of his): "The guy in NYC is Ben Nadel. He .... is one of the best programmers I know. He is also the person I find easiest to work with. Young guy, but super talented. I keep trying to get him to move to CA." ... read more »
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Turning Off and On Identity Column in SQL Server
Posted: April 21, 2006 at 2:05 PM by Ben Nadel
I have been moving over the data from one database to another and am currently using XML files as an intermediate step. The process has been going very smoothly, and I just learned something new. I need to keep certain ID column values across the database and was worried about turning on and off identity column AND automating the XML to DB scripti... read more »
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ColdFusion Runtime Abort Exception
Posted: April 21, 2006 at 8:49 AM by Ben Nadel
I keep getting emails when my site errors. I like to be alerted; however, I kept getting an email when I went to fiew any files. The kink was, the file was working. Went to it, saw it, all was good. And yet, still the emails. Upon further investigation, it seems the error being thrown was an AbortException. After two seconds of Google time, I see ... read more »
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2006-07 Top 250 Law Firms Web Site Awards
Posted: April 20, 2006 at 6:53 PM by Ben Nadel
It's pretty cool, several of my clients have it to the Platinum 2006-2007 Internet Marketing Attorney Awards : Thompson & Knight Dewey Ballantine Akin Gump Michael Best (also made it into Micah's Nifty 50: 2006-07) Venable Williams & Connolly ... read more »
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Dereferencing Javascript Variables - Revisiting
Posted: April 20, 2006 at 6:44 PM by Ben Nadel
As posted before I was having a very hard time getting dynamic onclick methods to call what I thought was a dereferenced variable. I was getting a lot of help and great suggestions on the CFTalk list, but one guy finally posted a link to: http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/gotcha-gotcha.html This page discussed exactly the problem I was hav... read more »
