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Way Of The Warrior: The Poison Of Sarcasm

Posted: April 11, 2010 at 6:16 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Life, Way Of The Warrior, Work

User-interface design is not easy. It is, perhaps, the single most important part of what I do every day; but, it is not easy. Each new interface offers its own challenges and its own unique opportunities for innovation. When Clark Valberg and I are working on a user interface together, sometimes things get heated. While we are typically on the ... read more »

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Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Life, Way Of The Warrior

The human mind is fraught with emotional parasites. We are not always aware of it, but these parasites have a detrimental affect on how we feel both about ourselves and about the people around us. They fill us with uncertainty, self-doubt, fear, anger, and feelings of inadequacy; they makes us dismiss, diminish, and hurt the people we care about. ... read more »

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Prashant Gupta
May 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM
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you are awesome..i am lucky to get this blog between such a garbage one....Thanks, Prashant ... read »
Ben Nadel
May 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM
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@Dana, Your confusion is well founded, since this is a very confusing features. In fact, it ONLY works if you use array notation. Meaning, that this: arrayToList( query[ "columnName" ] ) ... read »
DanaK
May 20, 2013 at 4:34 PM
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I was thinking chicken and the egg, I wouldn't have expected it to work in the valuelist going in I guess. Maybe I just need a beer, long day :) ... read »
Ben Nadel
May 20, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Using A Dynamic Column Name With ValueList() In ColdFusion
@Dana, That's if you're trying to reference a specific row. In this case, we're trying to reference the entire query column as one cohesive value. So, you are correct that if you wanted to output a ... read »
DanaK
May 20, 2013 at 4:24 PM
Using A Dynamic Column Name With ValueList() In ColdFusion
I thought when you used array notation to reference queries you always had to have the row or it would throw a similar error as well? ... read »
Jonathan Azulay
May 20, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Using jQuery's Animate() Step Callback Function To Create Custom Animations
This is really useful. I found out that you don't actually have to use a dummy css property (surprisingly). To animate a property in a linear-gradient for instance I did this this.css('someLinearGra ... read »
Ben Nadel
May 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Using A Dynamic Column Name With ValueList() In ColdFusion
@Josh, Oh snap! You're totally right! I'm not sure I've ever tried that. I did know that you can call a number of other array-methods on ColdFusion query columns: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/167 ... read »
Josh Siok
May 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Using A Dynamic Column Name With ValueList() In ColdFusion
@Ben - I believe you can achieve the same functionality with ColdFusion's built in ArrayToList() function. ArrayToList( users[ "id" ] ); ... read »
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