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Recent Blog Comments By Marcos Placona

• Ode To ColdFusion On Valentine's Day

  Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM

  OMG! Ben you're a freak! ;-) AWESOME!!!!!! I loved it!... read more »

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

  Posted on Dec 1, 2010 at 2:55 PM

  What a beautiful act Ben! Makes me feel like somehow doing the same. You might be starting a trend here. Well done ;-)... read more »

• HTML5 Up And Running By Mark Pilgrim

  Posted on Oct 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM

  I thought we were not supposed to be using HTML 5 yet ;-) Nice review btw...... read more »

• Getting Ready For Scotch On The Rocks (SOTR) 2010

  Posted on May 20, 2010 at 10:57 AM

  @Ben, we've got "Relentless", and 5 cans of it will give you the caffeine for a whole year!... read more »

• Getting Ready For Scotch On The Rocks (SOTR) 2010

  Posted on May 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM

  That's an awesome picture. Gotta have pictures taken holding the beer :-)... read more »

• 3rd Annual (Inter)?National Regular Expression Day (And Prizes) - June 1st, 2010

  Posted on May 17, 2010 at 6:16 AM

  Ha ha, that's a really good one Ben. I've added some entries.... read more »

• NYC + Snow + ColdFusion + jQuery = Winter Wonderland

  Posted on Dec 21, 2009 at 6:17 AM

  Dude you're such a geek! ;-) And yeah, I have to second James' comment. We can't handle all of that 1/2 inches of snow we get... read more »

• Storing Property Data In Javascript Function Objects

  Posted on Mar 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM

  Hey, that's a really nice tip Ben. I saw it once, but didn't really bother to go after it and see what it was actually doing. Laziness at the extreme :-) I've also been playing with some plug-in development in jQuery, and this sure will be useful.... read more »

• Using A Rough Box Model To Gather Near-By Zip Codes

  Posted on Feb 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM

  Nice findings Ben. I'm even thinking about a nice app involving maps now :)... read more »

• Finding The Distance Between Latitude / Longitude Locations In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM

  Nice one Ben. I've had to do something similar a while ago, but as Matt mentioned above, the 'free' databases for the UK are dodgy or incomplete. I ended up using the Royal Mail's database, which as mentioned costs a fortune but is very complete. It'd be great to have a service like this one you... read more »

• KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client (Beta)

  Posted on Feb 4, 2009 at 3:33 PM

  Don't know how I missed that one, but excellent job!!!... read more »

• A Graphical Explanation Of Javascript Closures In A jQuery Context

  Posted on Feb 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM

  You're a star!!! That's a really good explanation!!!!!!!! Thanks for that Ben... read more »

• Kinky Solutions Shop - Holiday Season Beta Launch

  Posted on Dec 22, 2008 at 6:58 AM

  Hey, that's a very clever idea, and very nice too. I've never thought about this before (dammit!) :-), but I reckon this can revolutionize the blogsphere ;-) Keep the good work man... read more »

• Any Interest In A ColdFusion Fan Art Contest?

  Posted on Mar 13, 2007 at 9:16 AM

  I like the idea. How would it be? We should post things like: http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/28/Tag-of-the-day-CFIMAGE Cheers... read more »