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Thinking About Abandoning Project Skin Spider

Posted: April 4, 2007 at 7:09 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Skin Spider

I haven't worked on it in a few months, but originally, project Skin Spider was going to be a hugely comprehensive walk through of an application life cycle. I really liked where the project was headed and I think it was actually helping people understand ColdFusion applications. I had gotten most of the way through the "no framework" framework ph... read more »

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Skin Spider : Live Demo No Longer Available

Posted: December 19, 2006 at 9:04 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the current code base, click here . It feels like forever since I have worked on Skin Spider, but don't worry, the project is not dead; I have just been crazy busy at work and at home. However, the live demo is no longer available. Due to the size and number of video files and the frequency ... read more »

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Skin Spider : The Problem Approach To Referential Redirection

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 9:14 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . I do NOT support this approach . I am only posting it as an update because it works in a misleading fashion and should be changed. I only realized this after I had done it. I want to talk about my reaso... read more »

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Skin Spider : The Page Equivalent Url

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 2:50 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . I am a firm believer that most pages in an application should have a URL equivalent. Meaning, you can put some URL in the browser and get most any page in the system. I say "most" any page, as I draw the... read more »

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Skin Spider : Miscellaneous Updates

Posted: November 15, 2006 at 8:22 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Just a few minor updates that I wanted to post before I moved onto some bigger changes. Spider Gallery I have updated the spider_gallery.cfm ColdFusion template to use a CFTry / CFCatch tag set wrapp... read more »

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Skin Spider : Rating Videos And The First ColdFusion Custom Tag

Posted: November 14, 2006 at 8:42 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . As a bell-and-whistle type thing, I wanted to provide a really easy way for users to rate the video clips. I also wanted the rating of the video clip to be known without having to go the " Edit Video " p... read more »

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Skin Spider : Meta Form Data And The Post Processing Url

Posted: November 10, 2006 at 7:45 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . With the introduction of the MetaForm data structure, we gained more insight into how the form was behaving on a per-page request basis. I would like to take that structure and extend it so that we can u... read more »

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Skin Spider : Auto-Tagging Downloaded Videos

Posted: November 9, 2006 at 9:40 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . This is a small update but one that is very good for the usability of the system. I have added the ability to auto-tag videos as they are being downloaded. This removes a lot of manual work that the user... read more »

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My Coding Methodology - Understanding The Madness And The Man Behind It

Posted: November 8, 2006 at 8:33 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, SQL, Skin Spider, Work

As some of you might know, I post all my ColdFusion code for the Skin Spider project. To help understand it, I was asked to post the methodology I use for programming. I have a whole document written that I try to follow. This is, however, a living, breathing, evolving document and I am sure that I don't follow all of it. In fact, I am only read... read more »

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Skin Spider : Tracking Video Usage Statics And Mass Deletion

Posted: November 6, 2006 at 3:28 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Originally, the application was providing the user with links directly to the downloaded video files (ex. 15.mwv). This worked fine from a user's standpoint, but provided the application with no useful i... read more »

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Skin Spider : Page Data Component

Posted: November 5, 2006 at 11:38 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Search Engine Optimization, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Until now, the only thing we set programmatically about the page was a variable called REQUEST.Page. We used this value to determine which primary navigational element was turned on. This was nice and si... read more »

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Skin Spider : Pseudo Application.cfc Events : OnContentStart() And OnContentEnd()

Posted: November 2, 2006 at 4:13 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . When we deal with the life cycle of a web page request, we can think about it in terms of: Pre Page Processing Page Processing Post Page Processing ColdFusion MX 7's Application.cfc does a really... read more »

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Skin Spider : Meta Form Data

Posted: October 31, 2006 at 8:11 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Until now, we only knew one thing about our forms: they were either submitted or they weren't. That might be two things, but I am going to consider it one thing since they both depend on a single value (... read more »

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Skin Spider : Applying The Programmatic Configuration Object

Posted: October 30, 2006 at 9:15 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . In my earlier updates, I created two ColdFusion component configuration objects, Config.cfc and PublicConfig.cfc . After some discussion on the blog, I have decided to go with the private Config.cfc. ... read more »

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Skin Spider : ColdFusion User Defined Function Library Structure

Posted: October 27, 2006 at 8:56 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Skin Spider

To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . This is a very minor update. I prepared the ColdFusion user defined library structure. The library itself, UDFLib.cfc , is broken up into smaller, more cohesive libraries: AJAXLib.cfc ArrayLib.cfc ... read more »

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Update! Instead of $(eval(options.insertAfter)).after(data['insertData']); I now use: var ajaxNode = document.createElement('span'); var parent = $(eval(options.insertAfter))[0].parentNode; ... read »
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This is great, very useful Ben. I spotted a small typo in the api.cgm listing: <cfthrow type="Unauthroized" /> Cheers Stefan ... read »
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