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• Thoughts On Storing Duplicate / Calculated Data In The Database

  Posted on Mar 31, 2008 at 11:20 AM

  @Peter Using that volume of data if you still wanted to keep the reports up to date you could aggregate the collated information in the nightly table with data from the source table only using a where clause to restrict the date/time being checked in the source table. So long as the d... read more »

• IE Has Correct Box Model In Standards Compliant Mode

  Posted on Sep 19, 2007 at 11:01 AM

  I'm sure a lot of you already know this but <cfcache /> can be a real pain with this... The tag adds a HTML comment to the top of the cached results with the URL in. Unfortunately this kills IE's recognition of the DOCTYPE causing the following to be seen: 1st view of a page (un... read more »

• How Do I Get A Pointer To A Built In ColdFusion Method?

  Posted on Mar 2, 2007 at 9:28 AM

  Sam I agree on the single return point. I was kinda just illustrating the point of abstracting the functionality into another function. I agree on the just use reFind() although I imagine Ben was aware of that too. I think the question was more about can you do it the pointer way and/... read more »

• How Do I Get A Pointer To A Built In ColdFusion Method?

  Posted on Mar 2, 2007 at 8:00 AM

  Ben, I'm interested to know what other languges you've done this in? D... read more »

• How Do I Get A Pointer To A Built In ColdFusion Method?

  Posted on Mar 2, 2007 at 7:48 AM

  Hi Ben, Yes I get what you're trying to do but probably just disgaree on it's elegance factor.... (definitely on the mad factor tho! :p) This situation sounds like it would fit the proxy(?) pattern nicely: cffunction myFind(regEx, str, sub, ....) cfif regEx cfreturn... read more »

• How Do I Get A Pointer To A Built In ColdFusion Method?

  Posted on Mar 2, 2007 at 7:33 AM

  Although I think this is interesting I think maybe WHY!? is even more interesting. I can't think of a case where this would be particularly useful? Maybe you could give a fuller example of what you're trying to do? D... read more »