April 2006 Web Log Entries
Google Finally Indexed the Site
Posted: April 20, 2006 at 9:21 AM by Ben Nadel
Google finally indexed my site. It was really interesting in terms of the effect on search engine optimization. I finally have confirmation that the Google bot will index my 404-catching type pages (ex. ../porfolio/client-lsit/), which is great because I was afraid my manual setting of 200 status wasn't taking hold. What I did notice is that of a... read more »
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Dereferencing Javascript Variables in Dynamic Methods
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 10:46 PM by Ben Nadel
There is one problem in Javascript that I cannot seem to get a handle on and it is killling me! I can't seem to get variables to pass by value as I would hope. Take the following example: for (var intI = 0 ; intI < 10 ; intI++){ var objA = document.createElement( "div" ); // Set the click for the link. objA.onclick = function(){ alert(... read more »
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Loading Java Classes on the Fly
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 10:28 PM by Ben Nadel
I remember probably a year ago, I started to really understand some of the benefits that ColdFusion had being built ontop of Java. Specifically, the power and speed of Java string manipulation that ColdFusion just couldn't match. I was really getting into Regular Expressions and Java seemed to be where "it" was at. It was about that time that I ... read more »
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Woohoo!
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 5:08 PM by Ben Nadel
I was just programming when I looked down and saw a pretzel on my desk that I forgot was there. I ate it. You gotta love life's little pleasures and suprises. ... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization and Error Catching
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 8:43 AM by Ben Nadel
I have been trying to build this site with good search engine optimization (SEO). The top item on the SEO list is the link hrefs. My site is built on a DAX string (Divide and Qonquer mentality - "daq's") in the form of: "index.cfm?dax=blog:4.view However, in order to make the site more SEO, I have retooled the links to be in the form of: ./blog... read more »
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QueryNew() Type Casting Issues With Manually Altered Queries
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 8:12 AM by Ben Nadel
I am having this really strange problem involving a query of queries that I have never encountered before. Basically I am building a query with the QueryNew() method: <cfset REQUEST.SearchQuery = QueryNew( "title, date, preview, link, score", "VARCHAR, DATE, VARCHAR, VARCHAR, INTEGER" ) /> Then I build the query based on other queries... read more »
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Hacking Is Lame
Posted: April 18, 2006 at 12:12 AM by Ben Nadel
I get an alert everytime somone requests a page on a site that does not exist. Its not all day long, but I would say that on average I get a request every 5 minutes of someone requesting either a DLL or a Change MOD feature. It's sad. Don't people have more to do in their lives that try to break other people's stuff. ... read more »
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Data Mining Document Text for Searching
Posted: April 18, 2006 at 12:12 AM by Ben Nadel
Right now I am in the process of getting this site up and running, and one of the milestones in that journey is the site search. Currently, the search works for the database content of the web log and the snippets. More will come as the site evolves. Once of the details of site search is the uploaded document search. Snippets, for example, can hav... read more »
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Thanks to the Texas Web Developers
Posted: April 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
I just wanted to thank the Texas Web Developers for providing a work around for Microsoft's new plugin issue, specifically the need for users to Click to Activate flash content. The work-around can be found on the Texas Web Developer's site at this link . ... read more »
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Got My Search Up and Running
Posted: April 17, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
So, I got my site search up and running. Not too much to search yet, nor does it search all sections, but I think this is the best search that I have coded yet. It provides the title, search preview, date of the item (different for different items), and the link to the item of course. It gives the search results a score. The scoring is a bit odd, ... read more »
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The Lessons of Failure
Posted: April 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
I actually failed recently on a project. I can't really mention details due to Non-disclosure agreements, but I was working on a project involving Google and I simply couldn't finish. I wasn't smart enough. It involved encryption that was just beyond my scope of knowledge. I have never had to walk away from a project before, never had to tell som... read more »
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The Problem with AJAX
Posted: April 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
I think AJAX looks really cool. I haven't had a chance to really dive in and get to use it, but I looking forward to it. Using some other people AJAX-intensive sites I can really see where it can be handy. But, there is one thing about some sites using it that drive me Crazy! It's the whole problem with the back button. In AJAX, since you are not ... read more »
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CF_SQL_DATE Issues with MS SQL Server 2005
Posted: April 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
At work, we are using MS SQL Server 2000. Works great. At home though, I have more of a developer's environment. I am running CF Developer's edition and MS SQL Server 2005 single user edition (or something, can't quite remember what it is). I don't get a lot of time to work on stuff at home, but one night, I had some time to kill, so I brought a... read more »
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Over-Complicating Getting the Rest of List
Posted: April 15, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
Sometimes, I have a tendency to overcomplicate things. Such was a case with the idea of ListRest(). So many times, I have wanted to get the first item in a list, and then get the "rest" of the list. I never built it, but I always thought it would be great to have a ruction ListRest( intIndex ) that would return everything after the given index (in... read more »
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FireFox and XStandard CSS File Linkage
Posted: April 14, 2006 at 12:00 AM by Ben Nadel
I use XStandard to create rich content on my and my clients' sites. For those who don't know what it is, XStandard ( www.xstandard.com ) is a WYSIWYG editor that outputs XHtml compliant code. It's a really amazing editor and it does a fantastic job. The only problem I had was getting the CSS (it renderes CSS quite well in its ActiveX object) to li... read more »
