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Recent Blog Comments By Russ S.

• Using CFML Files To Pre-Process CFM Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM

  @Ben Does this type of problem make you want to work in other languages that have more syntactic sugar? [ ] yes [ ] no [ ] maybe... read more »

• Using CFML Files To Pre-Process CFM Files In ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 28, 2010 at 5:10 AM

  @Peter is this what you were thinking? http://pastebin.com/sENPFkJP I bet Ben has already blogged about passing functions as arguments like that though, so he had to try to out-genius himself with this post. read more »

• My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of The jQuery Event Object

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 at 12:03 AM

  Makes sense. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!... read more »

• Using CFParam To Define A Variable Number Of Arguments In ColdFusion (And What ColdFusion 9 Teaches Us)

  Posted on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM

  fn() fn( to ) fn( from, to ) This gets into method overloading, which is one of CF's limitations. Using method overloading in other languages, you'd be able to define two separate functions with the same name within a class to handle fn(to) and fn(from, to). CF just isn't built th... read more »

• Using CFParam To Define A Variable Number Of Arguments In ColdFusion (And What ColdFusion 9 Teaches Us)

  Posted on Nov 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM

  Sorry to repeat it Ben, but named arguments really is the bee's knees. I took a PHP class recently and all the example code used ordered arguments, which got totally insane as the examples increased in complexity. I had sworn off PHP entirely until I realized you could pass in a single arg... read more »

• Exploring IIS Mod-Rewrite For Rewriting URLs In A ColdFusion Application

  Posted on Sep 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM

  Ben, I'm wondering if using "$404" as a URL key is a good idea. I worry that search engines might consider a url containing "404" as a broken link. I'm not sure, but you should look into it. Why use "$404" as the URL key anyways? Why not "$rewrite=" or something? "404" is kind of a mi... read more »