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Recent Blog Comments By Phillip Senn

• How To Handle NULL Values In Object Oriented Programming In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 16, 2007 at 4:59 PM

  Paul Nielsen blogged an interesting post at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/11/11/the-real-problem-with-null.aspx... read more »

• HostMySite.com Customer Care Rocks

  Posted on Sep 1, 2007 at 4:08 PM

  A number of times I've called them and a. Someone answers. b. The person who answers is intelligent. c. The person who answers solves my problem. d. I hang up and shake my head in disbelief.... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 Beta Released - ColdFusion 8 Release Date Contest Still Open

  Posted on Jun 1, 2007 at 11:02 PM

  Why was it easier to find the BETA Developer Guide on your site than Adobe labs? Cause I'm stupid?... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Mar 21, 2007 at 12:48 PM

  Ben, I'm on a shared hosting environment (Hostmysite.com). You reference org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem in your component. I'm assuming I should download the Apache POI library poi-bin-2.5.1-final-20040804.zip file from read more »

• Introduction To Regular Expressions Presentation Notes

  Posted on Jan 23, 2007 at 9:23 AM

  Remind me in 10-11 months to nominate you for a cfEmmy.... read more »

• My Sincerest Apologies To Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, And To The Entire ColdFusion Community

  Posted on Jan 23, 2007 at 9:11 AM

  Ben, I don't think you need to fall on your sword for this one. There's such a thing as "Fair Use" copyright, which means you can lift a part of someone's work. What you did would have been just fine. The only thing missing was the attribution, which you quickly corrected. read more »

• A Small Calendar Utility For Reference

  Posted on Dec 13, 2006 at 6:13 PM

  It's delicious! http://del.icio.us/ psenn... read more »

• My Coding Methodology - Understanding The Madness And The Man Behind It

  Posted on Nov 8, 2006 at 11:47 AM

  There's plenty of intellectual property here! BTW, have you seen http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/contents.html ?... read more »

• People! Please Stop Using Single Quotes!

  Posted on Nov 8, 2006 at 9:04 AM

  Single quotes are the lazy man's double quotes. You don't have to press the shift key to type a single. And yes, there is something wrong with that.... read more »

• ColdFusion Custom Tags And High Coupling

  Posted on Nov 8, 2006 at 8:49 AM

  You're right in thinking that components should be black boxes with wires going in and one wire going out. The single return value can be a structure and thus contain many results. I think that since components are a relatively new phenom, some people are still using custom tags. I u... read more »

• Posting Form Values With The ColdFusion CFHttp And CFHttpParam Tags

  Posted on Nov 2, 2006 at 2:51 PM

  From: http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/230515.htm <cfhttp url=" http://del.icio.us/ rss/psenn" method="get"> <cfset RSSObj = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent)>... read more »

• Does Mentoring Exist Any More?

  Posted on Oct 23, 2006 at 9:20 PM

  > So what happens if you do take a job at (what you thought at the time) was a real go-ahead institution... Sometimes changes take a long time. But when the opportunity arises, things change very quickly. What a difference a year makes! ... only to find that - you're the onl... read more »

• The Fountainhead, An Amazing Book

  Posted on Oct 21, 2006 at 7:25 PM

  Ayn Rand has a devoted following to be sure. And her books DO affect you because you want to identify yourself with the hero who refuses to compromise. I saw the 1949 movie "The fountainhead" a few years ago starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. They did a great job interpreting the... read more »

• Does Mentoring Exist Any More?

  Posted on Oct 20, 2006 at 6:53 PM

  Here's was an extremely long thread called "The CF Skill Divide" posted April 5, 2006. http://www.briankotek.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/4/5/The-CF-Skill-Divide... read more »

• Does Mentoring Exist Any More?

  Posted on Oct 20, 2006 at 6:49 PM

  I forgot about Flash and Flex. Sorry.... read more »

• Does Mentoring Exist Any More?

  Posted on Oct 20, 2006 at 6:38 PM

  Employee training is the key. In order to stay at the top of your game, you have to take time to go to conferences, read manuals, etc, etc. But corporate employees don't have time to train. So managers find someone that's been training outside the company, either as a consultant or a n... read more »