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Recent Blog Comments By Donnie Bachan

• Creating UI Elements With Low-Coupling And Conditional Event Handling

  Posted on Jan 20, 2010 at 6:14 AM

  Excellent post as usual Ben. I think that your use of the controller is the most appropriate way to decouple the individual objects. The controller will have to take on the role of a "global register" or "UI Manager", where each object that is added to the UI registers. Once they are registered,... read more »

• JSON Files As Temporary File Storage In ColdFusion Applications

  Posted on Jan 18, 2010 at 10:07 AM

  @Ben I am so going to do an avatar for that although it is not warranted at all! :)... read more »

• JSON Files As Temporary File Storage In ColdFusion Applications

  Posted on Jan 18, 2010 at 9:48 AM

  Ben, just one thing to note (you may already be aware of this), and it's something I ran into recently, for this type of scenario it may be important to use the second parameter of the serializeJSON and deserializeJSON functions, mainly because by default serializeJSON doesn't distinguish between... read more »

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

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM

  I've actually never had a job where I've had 1. A pay increase and 2. A bonus! This may sound odd in today's world but I've spent a lot of time working for very small businesses and money is always tight. I try to get myself a decent base salary though. It would be nice once in a while to get som... read more »

• Testing Credit Card Transactions In Payflow Pro (Thanks Dan Vega!)

  Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM

  Ben, I've been developing a shopping cart for processing UK transactions via Paypal and it is really frustrating. You have to usually send a support ticket. The response errors are usually wrong and the URLs are different for the UK and the US. The UK url is pilot-payflowpro.verisign.com an... read more »