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Aaron Longnion
Member since Dec 11, 2008

Recent Blog Comments By Aaron Longnion

  • Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching

    Posted on Dec 8, 2008 at 3:48 AM

    I've found cf_accelerate to work very well under high load (in a lab with intense load testing, not in the real world), and could be easily modified to write to disk or database. Brandon Purcell already worked out a lot of the performance issues with where to put the data in CF structures, and s... read more »

  • Using Verbose Regular Expressions To Explain Url Auto-Linking In ColdFusion

    Posted on Mar 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM

    may want to add the following to the list of valid extensions: aero|coop|museum|name|jobs|travel|mobi from http://www.cflib.org/codeView.cfm?ID=216... read more »

  • Never Be Conflicted About Being Nice

    Posted on Mar 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM

    @Ben, Nice compliment #1. You're so nice, and that's why you're so great! Nice compliment #2. You know, Ben, every morning I come in to work, and if my boss (who sits right next to me) isn't in yet, I feel I have a bit of time to run through all the CF blog posts via ColdF... read more »

  • Custom User Agents For ColdFusion Debugging

    Posted on Mar 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM

    [tongue in cheek] Cool! Now all I have to do is use your FF trick and surf your site to see what you're debugging at the moment. (you didn't really use "(DEVELOPER)", did you dude? ;-) In the past, I worked in a system where we had a secret, IP-restricted developer-only login area (de-co... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Running ColdFusion Asynchronously - Caveman Style

    Posted on Nov 30, 2007 at 6:07 PM

    AsyncHTTP! http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=137 I don't have tons of experience with it, but have verified it works in CF 6.1.... read more »

  • Paginating Record Sets In ColdFusion With One SQL Server Call

    Posted on Oct 11, 2007 at 1:32 PM

    Interesting way of tackling the problems. But it's just not nearly as efficient as doing it with a sproc: With *heavy* inspiration from read more »

  • Been In A Funk Lately

    Posted on Oct 9, 2007 at 10:21 AM

    *try* meditation... if that doesn't work, meditate. :) Also, have you moved to CFEclipse yet? If not, that's clearly your problem, haha. Thought #2 - have you tried getting into the world of Unit Testing? (it's more fun than it sounds) Considering your recent promotion, I'd be very... read more »

  • Convert jQuery XML Documentation To HTML / PDF Using ColdFusion And XSLT

    Posted on Sep 20, 2007 at 10:06 AM

    Keep it up! Another thorough, real-world example. Though I haven't done a ton of XSLT, in the real-world work I've done with it, using XmlTransform with XSLT has always out-performed nasty structure and array looping, etc. Do you find the same to be true with the performance of ths XSLT... read more »

  • Stripping XML Name Spaces And Node Prefixes From ColdFusion XML Data (To Simplify XPath)

    Posted on Sep 14, 2007 at 12:40 PM

    @Ben - Yes, I noticed your XSLT Intro post today during my morning blog reading, and you did an excellent job explaining to newbies and vets alike. The beauty of it once it's starts to click is a wonderful thing. Thanks for all your continuing efforts for the CF community! (I still want... read more »

  • Stripping XML Name Spaces And Node Prefixes From ColdFusion XML Data (To Simplify XPath)

    Posted on Aug 31, 2007 at 11:47 AM

    Glad you made me research this. Simply use the XSLT in #41 at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html #d7594e1750. XmlTransform() your XML doc with it, using the sample on read more »

  • Stripping XML Name Spaces And Node Prefixes From ColdFusion XML Data (To Simplify XPath)

    Posted on Aug 30, 2007 at 6:23 PM

    nice workaround, but it's much cleaner and simpler (once you get the hang of it) to XmlTransform() and XSLT to transform the original XML into the XML formatted the way you want.... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Handling Errors With ColdFusion CFError

    Posted on Aug 29, 2007 at 10:28 AM

    lots of great info in there, Ben. Thanks for the thorough explanations! How do you have time to get actual work done? Does your job mind you spending time blogging during work hours? Anyways, here's a custom tag I worked up over the years, though I use onError() now in CF 7 and 8:... read more »

  • Superbad Is Bonafide Badass!

    Posted on Aug 20, 2007 at 12:58 PM

    Oh man! You gotta see *all* 'o the Hustle! (and if you like it, watch Shaolin Soccer, too... actually, it's better build-up I think to watch Shaolin Soccer first) ;) And yes, I went to see Hot Fuzz right away when it came out, knowing it was by the same folks who did "Shawn..." but for wha... read more »

  • Superbad Is Bonafide Badass!

    Posted on Aug 20, 2007 at 11:25 AM

    Ben - I totally agree with your review, man. I just saw it last night, and I can't wait to see again. It's now up there on my list with Shawn of the Dead, 40 Year Old Virgin, and Kung Fu Hustle!... read more »

  • Need Help Making A Viable ExpandServerPath() ColdFusion UDF

    Posted on Jul 3, 2007 at 5:06 PM

    I can't think of any other way to get the calling template. It would be interesting to see *how* slow your UDF is; is it really that bad performance-wise?... read more »

  • ColdFusion Optimizing Case Study: Writing Orders To A CSV File

    Posted on May 4, 2007 at 9:30 AM

    a generic function along the same lines ;) http://cfzen.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/18/queryToCsv2-util-function-updated... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Limit File Upload Size In ColdFusion

    Posted on May 2, 2007 at 2:30 PM

    haven't used this yet myself, but if you the customer is cool with requiring users to have at least Flash 8, cf_flashUpload is supposed to be sweet: http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/file-upload-... read more »

  • ColdFusion CALLER Scope Dependent On Invoking Parent, Not Markup Parent

    Posted on Apr 19, 2007 at 10:20 AM

    @Ben - is this what you're looking for? http://cfzen.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/19/my-nested-custom-tag-is-bi-directional-that-is... read more »

  • ColdFusion CALLER Scope Dependent On Invoking Parent, Not Markup Parent

    Posted on Apr 19, 2007 at 9:44 AM

    nice write-up! Good reminder for all of us, and probably taught many folks a thing or two. Have you got into using cfassociate, getBaseTagData, and assocAttribs? CustomTags can be very powerful and if used properly will make you UI and "widget" development go much better: read more »

  • Am I A Senior Programmer?

    Posted on Apr 13, 2007 at 10:33 AM

    Hey man - I've been reading your blog entries a bunch over the past few months, and I think you could definitely be a senior developer right now if that's what you want. It's really up to you. I don't have some of the pure programming skillz that you possess, but I've been labeled a senior deve... read more »

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