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The Blog Of Ben Nadel On Obsessively Thorough Web Application Development
I am the chief software engineer at Epicenter Consulting, a boutique software
company in New York City that specializes in developing high-end, customized business
solutions using ColdFusion and jQuery.
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Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)
Nov 21, 2009 at
12:41 AM
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Nov 20, 2009 at
11:32 PM
I've used headless camel case for years for not only ColdFusion variables, but also SQL tables and fields... pretty much everything involving code. I also subscribe to the "don't abbreviate and clea
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Nov 20, 2009 at
11:00 PM
@Marcel, Yeah, I always err on the side of longer but more readable variable names. As for the camel casing of CF methods and the headless camel casing of custom items, I get around this by always
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Nov 20, 2009 at
10:56 PM
I use the following and love it: my.namespace.MyComponents.functionMethodsOrUDF() CONSTANT_VALUES_OR_PROPERTIES One thing I always try is to CamelCaseBuiltInColdFusionFunctions() so others can tell
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Nov 20, 2009 at
5:38 PM
Hi Ben, Great article. I've been looking around to see if ColdFusion image engine can programatically create the following "wrap around" effect: http://www.creativepro.com/article/photoshop-s-she
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Nov 20, 2009 at
5:35 PM
@Dave: I talked to Gert he suggested: <cfhttp method="get" url="http://{some cf website}" result="stuff" addtoken="yes" /> Note the addition of cfhttp attribute addtoken. That should persist y
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Nov 20, 2009 at
5:23 PM
@Todd, Ahh, gotcha, yeah that makes sense.
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Nov 20, 2009 at
5:17 PM
Ben, sorry if I didn't make this clear. You can make it work like that if you want, just put <cfset session.foo = 1> (and <cfset application.foo = 1>) in your OnRequestStart() and it reve
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