Community Member Profile

Recent Blog Comments By Sammy Larbi

• OOPhoto - Embrace Failure Or Optimize My Domain?

  Posted on Jul 31, 2008 at 10:03 AM

  I was going to ask the same question before I saw you wrote it out in bold. =) However, after thinking about it, I would say that both instances have the same answer: take the OO to the extreme. It will help you (and others) learn OO, and it will help you write better CF code. I... read more »

• Not Commenting And The Tipping Point Of Poor Programming

  Posted on Jun 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM

  Ben, I think perhaps the title in Brian's post was the poorly chosen part of it. The actual advice, that comments are indicators that your code is bad, would have been a better title. Then people could cite it and there could be no confusion about the actual advice contained therein. read more »

• National Regular Expression Day And Reflections On My Own Journey

  Posted on May 30, 2008 at 11:08 AM

  "best gift you've given yourself in years." Indeed. I'm glad you're doing the nat'l regex day. I hope it inspires someone or gives them the confidence to try regex, and realize that it doesn't have to be a dark art.... read more »

• SQL Pivot Tables Are Rockin' Awesome (Thanks Rick Osborne)

  Posted on Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM

  I just learned of pivots today, and found this post when looking for the MSDN reference. I don't know how I missed it the first time around, but I thought it was cool that you were in the top 10 for my search.... read more »

• You Cannot Submit Non-Rendered Forms

  Posted on Apr 18, 2008 at 10:40 AM

  Ben, Thanks for the clarification. Gotta love the single responsibility principle. =)... read more »

• You Cannot Submit Non-Rendered Forms

  Posted on Apr 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM

  Isn't $("whatever") short for document.getElementById("whatever")? If so, you're trying to get an id="<form ...", which doesn't exist, of course. I kind of like the idea behind it though - you could create a form quickly and then submit it. I'm not sure why I'd use it, but the pos... read more »

• Thoughts On Chained And Dependent Algorithm Steps

  Posted on Apr 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM

  I was going to mention making each step a function on its own which returned true or false, and putting them in a CFIF since it will get short-circuited the first time one of the functions returns false (as Jaime mentioned above) Glad you're thinking and writing about things like this. Kee... read more »

• Thanks Adobe!

  Posted on Jan 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM

  Good for you Ben!... read more »

• Don't Be Lazy, Be Proud

  Posted on Jan 10, 2008 at 10:04 AM

  After some time passed to do some thinking, I wrote this down in an email to Ben, so I thought I'd share it here: ========================= Looking back over the title just now it really hit home - don't be lazy, be proud. That and the line before the restatement of the title at the e... read more »

• Don't Be Lazy, Be Proud

  Posted on Jan 10, 2008 at 9:26 AM

  I've been wanting to write a post about "the best programmers are lazy programmers" for a little while now. I imagine it would have drawn your ire =) . I probably still will - and a little sooner now that you've done this one, or I may talk myself out of it. Good points - I have no... read more »

• The Fresh Face Of The New York ColdFusion User Group (NYCFUG)

  Posted on Jan 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM

  Awesome! Congrats and good luck!... read more »

• Happy Holidays From Kinky Solutions

  Posted on Dec 27, 2007 at 1:52 PM

  I've always wanted to start a comic strip - I used to draw stuff all the time as a kid and into my teens. Maybe I'll think of something fun one of these days. Anyway, cheers!... read more »

• Happy Holidays From Kinky Solutions

  Posted on Dec 27, 2007 at 11:29 AM

  +1 from me. Love the CF tech and learning cool stuff all the time. Love the cards and the saucy bits too. Keep up the good work. PS: I haven't seen Lenny and Bo for a while. Did they get retired and I missed it?... read more »

• I Will Never Be Tired Again

  Posted on Dec 16, 2007 at 3:11 PM

  Aside from responding "Great, how are you?" when asked how I am, I also like "Better than I deserve," something Dave Ramsey says all the time.... read more »

• RELoop ColdFusion Custom Tag Case Study

  Posted on Nov 14, 2007 at 4:57 PM

  Lovely!... read more »

• Why Do I Protect People Who Want To Break My Site?

  Posted on Oct 12, 2007 at 3:47 PM

  "I could care less either" should have been "I could care less either /way/" Sorry - it sounded bad the first way.... read more »

• Why Do I Protect People Who Want To Break My Site?

  Posted on Oct 12, 2007 at 3:45 PM

  Ben, I normally tell them something like "the end date you selected occurs before the begin date. please select a valid one." If you guess, and guess wrong, that can be a huge problem. For this case in particular, I think you'd almost always be guessing wrong, because people don't... read more »

• Finally Bought Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

  Posted on Sep 28, 2007 at 8:20 AM

  Well, they have great make-up artists in Hollywood!... read more »

• Finally Bought Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

  Posted on Sep 28, 2007 at 7:58 AM

  Thought you might be interested: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/ Starring Angelina Jolie.... read more »

• Getting The String Representation Of One ColdFusion XML Node

  Posted on Sep 20, 2007 at 4:23 PM

  Definitely did not know you could do that. Cool, and thanks for pointing it out!... read more »