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Recent Blog Comments By Joshua Curtiss

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 10, 2011 at 9:34 AM

  @Ben Oh my gosh dude, that video literally scared me.... read more »

• Using SetTimeout() To Delay The Closing Of A Related UI Element Based On User Interactions

  Posted on Oct 7, 2010 at 3:07 PM

  I have used setTimeout() many a time, and never knew it returned a token or that you could use that to clear it! Awesome! All this time, I would have a global variable that I would set that would flag the scheduled function whether it should proceed or abort (wrap it's actions on a big if block).... read more »

• Using Dynamic Keys In ColdFusion 9's Implicit Struct Creation

  Posted on Sep 9, 2010 at 2:28 PM

  Cool. This just feels natural. That's great when the language gets to a point where stuff just feels right how it's working. :-)... read more »

• Overriding Internal ColdFusion Component Variables With Method Arguments

  Posted on Aug 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM

  Boo. I don't like this. I've always been a big proponent of scoping ALL variables in CFCs (except a function's local scope), but I've never applied that to method calls.... read more »

• Post-Instantiation CFC Method References Don't Show Up In CFDump In ColdFusion 9

  Posted on Jul 20, 2010 at 3:40 PM

  I also discovered this when I was writing a nifty service object for ORM, and then using a factory that injects the methods into a CFC upon creation. Except I didn't notice that it used to work in CF8. I thought it was just old news. Thanks!... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Sep 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM

  Lol, fun stuff. Also had me til the end.... read more »

• Adobe Announces That HomeSite Is Officially Dead

  Posted on Jul 5, 2009 at 4:00 PM

  Ben: Do you find Eclipse's find/replace functionality lacking? It also supports RegEx find/replace, and as of Ganymede also has improved search results output. Just a thought that I noted since you specifically mentioned find/replace. Josh... read more »

• ColdFusion Tag Parameters Can Be Included In Separate Files (Thanks Mark Drew!)

  Posted on Jun 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM

  Whoah. Weird. It shows how literal cfinclude is.... read more »

• SQL LIKE Clause Case Sensitive in ColdFusion MX Query-of-Query

  Posted on Jun 3, 2009 at 3:21 AM

  I just finished modifying an object factory to fail over to a WDDX file of cached serialized queries when the database is unavailable (fun stuff, maybe worth a blog post!) and encountered this, since the non-DB mode was doing all the queries in QoQ mode. What a pain. I wouldn't mind the case sens... read more »

• Using ColdFusion Query's Underlying Java Methods For Query Manipulation And Logic

  Posted on May 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM

  Haha, I completely wrote it the long and ugly way, THEN thought to do a Google search and found your recommended faster way. Oh well, in the end, the code is better. :-) Thanks as always dude.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Accessing Cached CFCs With AJAX via Remote Proxies

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM

  Sweet. Creating the alias in the pseudo-constructor of the remote proxy is a great idea. Like you said, it makes the "evil" of referring to the application scope cleaner and more maintainable. Kudos.... read more »

• What Is The Best Time Of Day To Workout?

  Posted on Apr 13, 2009 at 3:50 PM

  Yes! Now I have a legit excuse for not being able to wake up early for a morning workout! :-) Thanks for the interesting info.... read more »

• ColdFusion Session Management And Asynchronous Page Requests

  Posted on Mar 31, 2009 at 2:42 PM

  So.. am I right that the bottom line resolution is that an empty cflock on the session scope in onRequestStart() will address the issue as long as the cause isn't an error in onSessionStart()? I followed the whole comment thread on both posts and I *think* that thought has held true throug... read more »

• Finding Values In A ColdFusion Array Using Java - And Other Cool Stuff

  Posted on Dec 15, 2008 at 11:13 AM

  Freakin' awesome! Didn't want to do a bunch of ListFinding with 10,000 entries, so this method will be much better. Thx.... read more »