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Recent Blog Comments By Murray

• Software Application Layers And Responsibilities

  Posted on Dec 29, 2012 at 5:49 PM

  Thanks Ben. Your architecture is very similar to what I ended up with. I ended up building my own framework in order to learn about these issues. However, I do use Taffy for my REST controller (just to parse and return the web request). user web request --> Taffy(REST request parsing) -... read more »

• Command-Query-Responsibility-Segregation (CQRS) Makes Domain Models Practical

  Posted on Dec 29, 2012 at 4:23 PM

  Hi Ben, Yes, I hit the same issue. Using ORM to save the state of the entities is great. However, the hoops I found myself jumping through to query data (using HQL) from entities with lots of interconnections was way too much and I found myself saying "f*** it!" and did it using S... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 16, 2011 at 8:44 PM

  Thanks Ben. Very interesting. I have signed up to be notified when they make this available in Australia! I would love to ditch PayPal!... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Jun 14, 2011 at 4:25 AM

  Is the actual numberformat "#,##0" defined? I needed to add a few of my own but I cant remember whether that caused the error you are describing. I am not in a position to test my POI code at present so I cant answer this myself: what happens if you substitute another function as... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM

  Without seeing your declaration for the cell it is hard to answer. Does it look something like this? <poi:cell value='COUNTIF(G#rangeStartRow#:G#rangeEndRow#,"=y")' type="formula" numberformat="0" alias="#local.alias#" /> eg are you specif... read more »

• POI Utility Now Supports Formulas And Cell Aliasing In Custom Tags

  Posted on Dec 11, 2010 at 5:54 AM

  Hi Ben, I just posted on my blog about 500 Null errors with POIutility - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError http://murrayhopkins.wordpress.com/201... read more »

• Ask Ben: Getting Line Breaks To Work In A ColdFusion And POI Generated Excel Document

  Posted on Dec 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM

  Chr(10) works for me (in summary): <poi:class name="header" style="font-family: arial ; font-size: 8pt ; text-align: left ; "/>   <poi:row class="header">   <cfset local.value = &q... read more »

• Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase

  Posted on Sep 5, 2010 at 4:40 PM

  Actually, for the benefit of anyone reading this who might want to make sense of the question post, the first <td> had a bold tag surrounding the numeral 6. So, the problem was that the xmlSearch wouldnt return that <td>, but would return the second one because the second one only had... read more »

• Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase

  Posted on Sep 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM

  Thanks Ben. Much appreciated.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase

  Posted on Aug 29, 2010 at 12:29 AM

  Woops. Sorry that my tags embedded in the source above cause the bolding nightmare!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase

  Posted on Aug 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM

  Hi Ben, Thanks for that tip. After much testing I have found that using MX7 there are a couple of "bugs" in xmlSearch. Perhaps these have been fixed in later versions of CF. I wanted to search for the <td> that had text containing the string "properties that match your search cr... read more »

• Way Of The Peaceful Warrior - Living In The Moment, Letting Go Of The Future

  Posted on Aug 9, 2010 at 7:36 AM

  @Ben I have been meditating for more than 30 years so here is my take for what it is worth. The goal of most meditative practice is to strengthen the "observer" part of our minds. What I mean is best illustrated by an example. Imagine that at any point of the day (whether or not... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Jul 4, 2010 at 1:13 AM

  @Eli re: auto-width Thanks for that! I implemented it using jar version poi-3.2-FINAL-20081019.jar on MX7 and it works fine. I use a modified version of the poi custom tags to make use of Mark Mandel's javaLoader as described here: read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM

  PS: the weekend I mentioned is called the "New Warrior Training Adventure"... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 27, 2010 at 8:04 PM

  There is also The Mankind Project - http://mankindproject.org/ - a worldwide not-for-profit project that has seen tens of thousands of men change their lives. I have done their weekend training here in Australia and cannot recommend it high... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM

  Two books on brain rewiring that are very interesting: The Brain that changes itself - Norman Doige Mindsight - Daniel J Siegal Yes, attention and intention create new neurons and new synaptic connections. Think of it like a muscle - the more exercise it gets the stronger it gets... read more »

• Way Of The Warrior: What Is A Warrior?

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 7:13 PM

  @Ben May I offer a subtle adjustment to your thinking? You say "We are warring against the harmful feelings in our head". Actually the feelings are your best friend because they alert you to the fact that your thinking about an event in your life might be unhelpful. ie Feeling is the... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 12, 2010 at 3:42 PM

  @Matt H >turn into resentment and infighting when decisions by management or other employees are effecting profits negatively Yes, that can happen where the decision are not collectively made. If you share the profits (or some of them) you need to also be prepared and able to share... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM

  @Ben >As far as asking the employees how they want the company to be organized, I am not sure that would work as I think people are not deeply aware of what would actually work best for them. Look at me - I've been an employee for 10 years and I am only just now starting to think at a de... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 6:24 PM

  @Steve >Pay that doesn't tie at all to performance sounds good, but also smacks a bit of communism - inasmuch as it risks failing to acknowledge that people (as a group, if not as individuals) tend to act in a self-interested manner. Yep. And it is also true that in a small group (... read more »