May 2006 Web Log Entries
Google AdSense Up and Running
Posted: May 10, 2006 at 8:35 AM by Ben Nadel
I was approved for Google AdSense. I have placed it on the web log and snippets pages as these are the only relevant pages on the site. Sweeeeet. ... read more »
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Afraid of Our Own Bodies
Posted: May 9, 2006 at 1:21 PM by Ben Nadel
I was just reading an article over on some site called Komo News , and it was all about how we have to disinfect our work areas when we eat because there is so much bacteria on and around our desk that we run the risk of infection. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane?? Since when did we have to start being afraid of everything around us, ... read more »
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Helping Google-Users Find Answers
Posted: May 9, 2006 at 10:11 AM by Ben Nadel
I am going to be helping Google users find answers on my site. I am working on a page-highlighting DHTML system where certain text nodes can be highlighted (wrapped in span elements) depending on if the user's referring url comes from google with search query params. The tricky thing here is not using innerHTML. I don't like innerHTML. It makes m... read more »
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Google AdSense Coming Soon
Posted: May 8, 2006 at 1:52 PM by Ben Nadel
I just signed up for Google AdSense. I figure, no harm in it. Never know, I might even make a little loose change on the side. Now, I don't know if it is linked or not, but about half an hour after I signed up, the Google Bot did a very thorough spidering of the site. If it is related, I am sure they are looking for red flags like pornography and ... read more »
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Membership and First Donation to WNYC Radio
Posted: May 8, 2006 at 1:41 PM by Ben Nadel
I just became a member of the New York public radio station WNYC . It is their spring time pledge drive and I also made my first donation. Instead of making a really nice donation (as I am poor), I am making a small monthly donation for a long period of time. I love NPR and WNYC and I am proud to finally be in a financial position where I can sh... read more »
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Solving Your ColdFusion Problems Without Permission
Posted: May 5, 2006 at 12:52 PM by Ben Nadel
As you all know, we are a community of ColdFusion developers. We share. We teach. We help. In the spirit of that, I am going to be solving your problems... without you even knowing about it. Maybe one day, I will set up an Ask a Jedi pod like Ray Camden , but for now, it's not going to be that obivious. When ever someone comes to my site using Go... read more »
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Going Pro With the XStandard Text Editor
Posted: May 4, 2006 at 1:30 PM by Ben Nadel
I just did my first upgrade of Lite to Pro for a client using the XStandard editor. I have been using XStandard as an editor for some time and it's so awesome that I have never had to use the Pro version before. It was a little shakey upgrading on one server because our web services never installed properly. But, after moving the project to our ne... read more »
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New Employee Aptitude Test
Posted: May 4, 2006 at 9:21 AM by Ben Nadel
Over the past few years, my company has hired some questionable employees. People who have cracked under the pressure and quite, or more unfortunately, people who just didn't realize that they couldn't hack it and had to be fired. Firing someone is never fun and I am glad I am not the person who has to fire someone. After many rounds of this, I ca... read more »
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Google Maps Not Working in Internet Explorer (IE)
Posted: May 4, 2006 at 7:55 AM by Ben Nadel
I am working on a page where I have a google-powered map (just like the one you find on maps.google.com . It works just fine in FireFox (of course), but in IE, I am getting a very strange error. The page loads fine, but then just when you think you are in the clear, I get an error that says Could Not Open Page "http://....." page aborted. Then, i... read more »
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Hidden Input Ordering in FireFox Form Submission
Posted: May 3, 2006 at 1:17 PM by Ben Nadel
I just has a wicked time trying to debug a crazy issue a co-worker was having. He was changing the sort of table rows within a table. Each row had a hidden input (for ID) in the first TD. Each row input had the same name, so that when the form was submitted, each ID would be submitted into a comma delimited list. We assumed that the order of the I... read more »
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Turning Off Session Management for Web Spiders
Posted: May 2, 2006 at 9:03 AM by Ben Nadel
Michael Dinowitz came to my office to do some code review since our server was having some trouble, slowing down and what not. We ended up having to restart the server several times to kill the slowly growning memory usage of the ColdFusion service. One suggestion that Dinowitz made was to turn off session management for web spiders so that they d... read more »
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What Happened to www.CFTemplate.com?
Posted: May 1, 2006 at 5:10 PM by Ben Nadel
March 21, 2006 I attended a NYCFUG meeting feature speaker Peter Bell. He spoke to the advantages of "Application Generation," claiming that around 85% of code for an application could be generated. He even claimed that most applications could be created in a day, no matter how complex, and if they could not, then the programmers were not smart en... read more »
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WARNING: Hilarous Pornography
Posted: May 1, 2006 at 12:13 PM by Ben Nadel
Normally I wouldn't post anything like this, but I laughed my ass off watching the previews with my girlfriend (who braught it to my attention). This little gem has to be shared. Do not watch at work or with anyone who might judge you critically. Insane Cock Brothas ยป ... read more »
