October 2008 Web Log Entries
Have A Kinky Halloween :)
Posted: October 31, 2008 at 2:48 PM by Ben Nadel
Happy Halloween from Kinky Solutions! ... read more »
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Ask Ben: Exporting A Query To CSV Without Using Column Names
Posted: October 29, 2008 at 9:58 AM by Ben Nadel
I have an issue that's been bugging me for a while now and I've had to back out of my CF application just to get the job done with SQL Server Enterprise Mgr. The issue is this: I am trying to export a cfquery result set to a file and I want to use all the columns in the table. There are over 300 columns in this table with about 700+ rows. I have b... read more »
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Ask Ben: Redirecting Users To A Random Page
Posted: October 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM by Ben Nadel
I am using cflocation to redirect all users to a temporary page. What I am wondering is if there is a way to have cflocation randomly or, even better, non-sequentially choose from a list of temporary pages to redirect users to. Is this possible? This is actually a really easy task. ColdFusion provides very accessible randomization methods that we... read more »
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Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?
Posted: October 27, 2008 at 9:10 AM by Ben Nadel
Last week, while covering the events at Hal Helms' "Real World OO" class , I had several inquiries, both direct and via my blog comments, asking what was the point of all of this was? How pure does object oriented programming need to be? What size does my project need to be in order to best leverage object oriented programming? I am very new to O... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - The Summary
Posted: October 26, 2008 at 3:50 PM by Ben Nadel
I spent this last week down in Florida at Hal Helms' " Real World OO " class on object oriented programming. While the code samples that we worked on were done in ColdFusion, the course was not really ColdFusion specific. The fundamental ideas of object oriented programming are universal and can be applied to just about any programming language ... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day Five
Posted: October 24, 2008 at 11:46 PM by Ben Nadel
This was the last day of Hal Helms' intensive 5 day course on object oriented programming - it's 11PM already and I just lost $40 playing Texas Holdem for the first time; needless to say, I'll keep this fairly short. I think the real breakthrough of the day involved persistence mechanisms. I'm not referring to any particular method of persistence,... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day Four
Posted: October 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM by Ben Nadel
Today was quite intense; we did a little bit of coding in the morning but the class quickly drifted away from the task management system and back into deep conversation. We got a little heated about the layers of an application and which layer should be responsible for what tasks. All the information that we covered was great, but for me, there we... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day Three
Posted: October 22, 2008 at 11:30 PM by Ben Nadel
Today is a bit harder to sum up because we actually started coding today rather than just talking theory and modeling classes. Before I get into that though, I just wanted to talk about my sleep last night; it wasn't good. I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep - I couldn't shut my brain off. It's like it just kept wanting to process all the stuf... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day Two
Posted: October 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM by Ben Nadel
Everything I've done so far in terms of object oriented programming in ColdFusion has been wrong. I came to this class thinking that I had a decent handle on OOP and needed the class to help me polish it up and tie it together a bit more; I'm sure that I could have been farther from the truth, but not that much farther. I know that an object i... read more »
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Hal Helms On Object Oriented Programming - Day One
Posted: October 20, 2008 at 11:07 PM by Ben Nadel
Yesterday afternoon, I arrived in Sarasota, Florida to attend Hal Helms ' one week seminar on Object Oriented Programming. I don't know if the planets where in the right alignment or what, but I got wind of this class last minute and just my luck, there was an opening. This is ultra exciting for me. As you saw last week, I have been looking for a... read more »
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Heading To An Object Oriented Programming Seminar
Posted: October 19, 2008 at 7:43 AM by Ben Nadel
Lately, I have been giving the "full court press" to the topic of Object Oriented Programming in ColdFusion. I like to think that I've been making a lot of great progress and have gotten a ton of really useful feedback from my readers. But, I feel like I've hit a bit of a training plateau and I need a little something something to push myself to t... read more »
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OOP Getters() And Setters() - A New Programmer's Frustration
Posted: October 14, 2008 at 9:35 AM by Ben Nadel
Every now and then, an article pops up that slams the use of Getter() and Setter() methods in object oriented programming (OOP); promptly, those new to OOP, like myself, shiver, wet ourselves, and franticly run around trying to escape the daunting feeling that we have no idea what in the heck we are doing. To me, these articles are never construct... read more »
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KinkyTwits Update - "Characters Remaining" Understands Message Type And HTML Entities
Posted: October 7, 2008 at 9:37 AM by Ben Nadel
Just a quick update to KinkyTwits, my ColdFusion, jQuery, and MySQL powered Twitter client . I know that some people have had issues with other twitter clients in that they do not accurately report the number of remaining characters. The problem is that these other clients do not take into account HTML entities that must be escaped. KinkyTwits no... read more »
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Ask Ben: Dynamically Adding File Upload Fields To A Form Using jQuery
Posted: October 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM by Ben Nadel
So seeing as you are on a jQuery kick I have a simple code request from you. Very simple, I want to allow file uploads in a form. I want it to start with 1 file upload option displayed, and then if the user clicks on a link, another one upload is displayed below that one. I want it all to be dynamic and create the html on the fly and use dynamic d... read more »
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KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client
Posted: October 6, 2008 at 9:10 AM by Ben Nadel
Last week, I had mentioned on Twitter that I was gonna try to build my own Twitter Client for yucks (trying to attain true Geek status). I came up with " KinkyTwits ". I put a good 12 or 13 hours into this over the weekend and I think I came up with some cool stuff. It's definitely rough and the code really needs to be organized much better, but i... read more »
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