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Recent Blog Comments By Brian Lang

• ColdFusion Path Usage And Manipulation Overview

  Posted on Feb 23, 2010 at 10:53 AM

  Another thing you can do with file paths, especially if you're on a shared server or your files move drives regularly, is to save the primary path in a database. Query it when you need it. That way when you need to change it, you only have to change ONE place.... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: REMatch() For Regular Expression Matching

  Posted on Feb 9, 2010 at 4:03 PM

  Useful like you wouldn't believe! I'm tying it together with your other blog post (link below) to match the first two sentences of a news story. http://www.bennadel.co... read more »

• ColdFusion 9 Script-Based Method Definitions Work Inside CFScript

  Posted on Jan 13, 2010 at 11:24 AM

  Ben, Is there a GOOD reference on CFScript anywhere?... read more »

• Ben Nadel Will Make You Code - Thanks Dave Dugdale!

  Posted on Jan 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM

  You earned it man! You always have great articles on coding CF or JQuery...... read more »

• NYC + Snow + ColdFusion + jQuery = Winter Wonderland

  Posted on Dec 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM

  Thanks for the laugh. And here I thought I was going to learn about something to do with ColdFusion and JQuery.... read more »

• Using Javascript's Function() Constructor To Deserialize JSON Data

  Posted on Dec 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM

  I'm not really sure how big a problem it is. I read about it all the time. I follow the "best practice" guidelines whenever I find them for whatever programming languages I'm using, but is that enough to protect my apps/websites? I hope so. It's not like I'm leaving out a "Welcome Hacker" ma... read more »

• Using Javascript's Function() Constructor To Deserialize JSON Data

  Posted on Dec 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM

  Something else to watch for as I learn AJAX then.... read more »

• Using Javascript's Function() Constructor To Deserialize JSON Data

  Posted on Dec 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM

  This sounds a bit sketchy. Could a hacker not use this to return a malicious script as JSON data?... read more »

• Five Months Without Hungarian Notation And I'm Loving It

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 11:39 AM

  Love the pic @Adam. Personally, I prefer headless Camel Case. For the most part I stopped identifying my variables with prefixes (ie. str int boo) when I started with CF.... read more »

• Looping Over ColdFusion JSON Queries In jQuery

  Posted on Nov 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM

  Looks useful. Going to try this on my next AJAX project.... read more »

• Using CSS Fixed Position Elements Across Browsers

  Posted on Oct 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM

  I have multiple VM's available on my Mac. I have a Win 2K VM with IE6. I have a Win XP VM with IE 7 and a Win7 VM with IE8. I develop using Firefox.... read more »

• Adobe Officially Releases ColdFusion 9 - The Newest, Most Powerful ColdFusion Server (Saucy)

  Posted on Oct 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM

  Where can I get a copy of the "official" CF9 poster above? :P... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM

  Will this work in CF7? I was under the impression that any code AFTER a closing cfdocument tag would not execute. @Jody - I'm with you. Where's Joanna?... read more »

• CSVToArray() ColdFusion UDF For Parsing CSV Data / Files

  Posted on Aug 31, 2009 at 6:18 PM

  Going to try this out. Initial look seems very promising. I've got some very dirty data however... will have to proceed cautiously.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Uploading Multiple Files Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 26, 2009 at 2:57 PM

  Thanks for the tutorial Ben. The tips you gave made my day go quicker.... read more »

• ColdFusion Path Usage And Manipulation Overview

  Posted on Aug 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM

  Very useful. Thanks.... read more »

• ColdFusion vs. XYZ - It Finally Got Physical

  Posted on Aug 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM

  Waiting for the "real" story to come out.... perhaps there was a door involved?!?... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using CFQuery In CFScript Can Enable SQL Injection Attacks

  Posted on Aug 7, 2009 at 1:37 AM

  So, can you use <cfqueryparam> in cfscript in CF9? I use it exclusively when writing queries in CF7 and CF8...... read more »

• Win A FREE Ticket To CFUNITED 2009

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM

  I'd like to attend Understanding Application.cfc This is a topic I'd really like to wrap my head around properly.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Enforcing An SSL (HTTPS) Connection Based On Request

  Posted on Jul 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM

  In my case, we're running CF on IIS, so changes at the Apache level is not an option.... read more »