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Recent Blog Comments By Paul Marcotte

• cf.Objective() 2008: Walking Among Giants

  Posted on May 5, 2008 at 3:27 PM

  Ben, Thanks for describing your experience so eloquently. You've captured my sentiment exactly. It was a great pleasure to meet you and a host of other people at the conference. I've got a huge todo list written out today of things I want to integrate into my development methodology and... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 16, 2007 at 3:00 PM

  DB: You are now a null. Value: I am not a NULL, I am a zero length string!!! DB: Bwahahahahhahhhahhah!!!!... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 16, 2007 at 12:42 PM

  Hey Ben, There's a typo in the Get method for your final example. The StructKeyExists(ARGUMNTS,"Value") should read StructKeyExists(VARIABLES,"Value"). I've had a long time struggle with the use of null in CF. I was thinking that it might be wise to create a NULL data type, but whe... read more »

• Exercise List: Building The Domain Model (Saucy)

  Posted on Nov 9, 2007 at 12:14 PM

  Hi Ben, I'm enjoying this series! Explorations into OO and domain modeling total fascinate me. One observation about your ServiceFactory CFC cfcs, since the ServiceFactory is not creating new instances of a service when the GetService("ServiceName") method is called, that class acts... read more »

• Exercise List: Designing The Database Schema

  Posted on Oct 22, 2007 at 10:49 AM

  Hi Ben, I'm with you on the naming conventions. I used to use preface all table attributes with the table name, but have opted for a style similar to yours. My only suggestion, would be to avoid the TEXT fields in favour of long(ish) varchar fields. That is, if you plan to retrievin... read more »

• IE Has Correct Box Model In Standards Compliant Mode

  Posted on Sep 14, 2007 at 12:11 PM

  I've used the XHTML Transitional doc type for a long time now and I was always curious why other folks were using box model hacks, or substitute style sheets when I was only using one. Of course, I've had to roll other workarounds, but the box model was never a problem. Now I know why!... read more »