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• Project HUGE: Huge In A Hurry - Get Big - Phase 2 / Week 3

  Posted on Jun 12, 2009 at 1:45 PM

  As a pitcher in baseball, one of the scariest things I fear is the term "rotator cuff injury". You have to treat these with kid gloves. My strength coaches in high school and college worked on all us pitchers the same way - low weight and high reps are the key to not blowing them up (and you're n... read more »

• Using The OnError() Event Handler Implies A "200 OK" Response Status Code

  Posted on Apr 29, 2009 at 11:24 AM

  @Matt, One thing to keep in mind is that by fudging a 500 error, you are adding a 500 error to your logs. Which means any web site reporting tool such as Urchin will report these as errors within your sites. I have been on many a contract where monitoring and reducing the number of 500 erro... read more »

• Handling Remote API Errors With Application.cfc's OnError() Event Method

  Posted on Apr 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM

  Thanks Ben, that did it. I figured it would be something simple... :(... read more »

• Handling Remote API Errors With Application.cfc's OnError() Event Method

  Posted on Apr 23, 2009 at 4:01 PM

  Ben, I've hit a snag implementing this, and it makes no sense. jQuery is not seeing the full ERRORS array for some reason. Here is JSON that my CF passes back, it validated on JSONlint: {"ERRORS":[{"ERRORTYPE":"","ERROR":"Error"}],"SUCCESS":false,"DATA":""} But in my jQuery, the... read more »

• Handling Remote API Errors With Application.cfc's OnError() Event Method

  Posted on Apr 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM

  One other thing I'd like to comment on. While using CFHEADER to fudge a 500 error that the AJAX code can catch is definitely easier to do (and judging from the other blogs and tutorials I have read, that seems to be the "preferred" method of error management by AJAX coders), it becomes problemati... read more »

• Handling Remote API Errors With Application.cfc's OnError() Event Method

  Posted on Apr 20, 2009 at 6:01 AM

  Ben, I was the one that posed the question to Ray. Thanks for your work on this, between this post and the responses that Ray got, there is a lot to think about and a lot of good approaches to handling security for AJAX calls. I am slowly getting my work to look at AJAX as a viable solution... read more »

• iPhone 3G - One Week Review Of The Apple iPhone 3G Black 16 Gig Model

  Posted on Jul 25, 2008 at 2:44 PM

  There have been articles at Gizmodo and Engadget that point out that the phone reception issues to actually be the iPhone 3G's fault. It's happening worldwide on every network that has it. A huge blunder.... read more »

• Creating Microsoft Excel Documents With ColdFusion And XML

  Posted on Apr 5, 2007 at 10:32 AM

  It should be noted that this will not work unless you are using Excel 2002 or later. That is when Microsoft added XML support to Excel. While on the face it sounds irrelevant, consider that most Federal Government agencies are still using Windows 2000 and Office 2000 on a wide-scale basis. That's... read more »