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Recent Blog Comments By JAlpino

• Win A Copy Of JavaScript Enlightenment By Cody Lindley

  Posted on Aug 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM

  First time I have ever won anything!!! Thank you Ben.... read more »

• Win A Copy Of JavaScript Enlightenment By Cody Lindley

  Posted on Aug 25, 2011 at 7:39 PM

  Wicked! I never thought to override the toString() method on my objects before.... read more »

• Tales Of Revolution And A Sense Of Community

  Posted on Apr 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM

  Amazing Ben, congratulations! You are on your way to international stardom (beyond the tech world!).... read more »

• Ode To ColdFusion On Valentine's Day

  Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM

  Nice, who knew that Ben was also poet!!... read more »

• Extending The Application.cfc ColdFusion Framework Component With A Relative Path

  Posted on Feb 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM

  Wouldn't a (CF) mapping pointing to the application root solve this issue? I realize you still can't extend using relative pathing, but would you need to if you always knew how to start from the root?... read more »

• In The Spirit Of B. Virdot - A Small Gift For A Few Families In Need

  Posted on Dec 1, 2010 at 3:24 PM

  +100 karma points for Ben!!... read more »

• Platform vs. Template: Branching Logic, Application Architecture, And Request Optimization

  Posted on Nov 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM

  @Ben, I think with either approach, conditional branching or maintaining two sets of code, there is the chance that either choice could become a maintenance issue down the road. If your apps become very different from each other, then branching will surely cause some pain, on the other han... read more »

• Platform vs. Template: Branching Logic, Application Architecture, And Request Optimization

  Posted on Oct 31, 2010 at 9:32 AM

  I'm also in the midst of trying to digest the best approach for catering to the web and mobile under a single app. My first thought was that I could just simply style the same markup for each platform. That proved to be a little more difficult than I anticipated even though I'm sure some more CSS... read more »

• Overriding Internal ColdFusion Component Variables With Method Arguments

  Posted on Aug 24, 2010 at 4:44 PM

  I feel like this new behavior can be useful in some situations (ie. implementing a strategy pattern or perhaps for closures?), but also a very dangerous in others. There doesn't seem to be a way now to ensure that 'protected' usage of private variables, remains private. I feel like encapsulation... read more »

• Using GMail's Plus-Style Addressing To Track Bounce Back Email Meta Data

  Posted on Apr 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM

  Somewhat OT, but I use the + modifier on my gmail address when I sign up for new services to see if spam that I receive contains it. I will usually make my address "me+theSiteName@gmail.com". If I receive spam on that address, then I know that the site either sold or otherwise gave up(will... read more »

• Drawing On The iPhone Canvas With jQuery And ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM

  You are a fine artist my friend. Great post also!... read more »

• Caching ColdFusion Component Methods Has Negligible Performance Improvements

  Posted on Oct 29, 2009 at 9:49 AM

  Without claiming to know the inner workings of object creation, I would have to image that instantiation time is partially consumed due to the size of the underlying object. Each component appears to be a concrete instance of coldfusion.runtime.CFComponent which probably has it's own inheritance... read more »

• Caching ColdFusion Component Methods Has Negligible Performance Improvements

  Posted on Oct 28, 2009 at 9:26 PM

  In using ecplise's class viewer (no decompilation), it looks like each method on the cfc is being turned into an inner class (of type UDFMethod) of the component that's being compiled. Those inner classes are then being referenced as static properties. If I understand it correctly, it means that... read more »

• Caching ColdFusion Component Methods Has Negligible Performance Improvements

  Posted on Oct 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM

  I'm pretty sure the only way that CF would be able to have class based/shared methods is if the underlying java object representing the CFC (when compiled) has it's methods declared static. Static methods are shared amongst all instances of the class, they also have no concept of state but can op... read more »

• FireBug's Console For Debugging Javascript Data (Thanks Ray Camden)

  Posted on Jan 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM

  Don't forget about the 'debugger;' statement that lets you dynamically add in break points for your code. I just found that out and have been loving it ever since.... read more »

• Thanks Adobe!

  Posted on Jan 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM

  Hey Ben, congrats! I think you are very deserving of this achievement.... read more »

• 204 Status Codes And ColdFusion CFHttp Calls

  Posted on Dec 4, 2007 at 1:28 PM

  @ Ben, no problem about the name thing, I usually sign with JAlpino instead of my full name. Here is the article that I first learned about using 204 for async processing ( http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/46789.htm ). This article pi... read more »

• 204 Status Codes And ColdFusion CFHttp Calls

  Posted on Dec 4, 2007 at 11:49 AM

  Nice write up Ben! As usual, you go above an beyond in your research and gratefully share it with the rest of us. I've typically used 204 status codes instead of AJAX requests when it wasn't (absolutely) necessary to receive a response from the server, items like 'watch this item' or 'flag this s... read more »

• Ask Ben: Running ColdFusion Asynchronously - Caveman Style

  Posted on Nov 30, 2007 at 5:06 PM

  Don't forget about using cfheader and status code 204! If thats the first thing that gets processed in the target 'async' template, the calling page will move right along after receiving a response and the target template will continue to process in the background.... read more »

• Returning Zero-Length Images Works Just Fine

  Posted on Sep 10, 2007 at 9:30 AM

  Hi Ben, you could also pass back a status code of 204 ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html #sec10.2.5) which tells the client that the request was successful but that it has no data to return...... read more »