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Recent Blog Comments By Ryan Jeffords

• Using A Name Suffix In ColdFusion's CFMail Tag

  Posted on Jul 12, 2011 at 4:55 PM

  Saved my neck again, Ben! :) Great info!... read more »

• Understanding Transactions And Database Rollbacks That Involve 3rd Party API Integration

  Posted on Mar 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM

  ...and it works quite nicely might I add! :) Excellent (and simple) solution.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Showing Related Form Fields Based On A Given Selection

  Posted on Jan 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM

  @Heather Try saving each value to the session scope. This can be done on your confirmation page by doing something like.... cfset session.firstName = form.firstName Then, on your form page you can test to see if session.firstName is defined, and if so, display it in the field's value... read more »

• jQuery Events: MouseOver / MouseOut vs. MouseEnter / MouseLeave

  Posted on Jan 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM

  As always, good info Ben! I've always been curious about the differences in those events as initially they sound so similar.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Showing Related Form Fields Based On A Given Selection

  Posted on Dec 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM

  @Ben -- Very well put. It absolutely makes sense why it would work this way. I definitely had a feeling there was a reason to the madness, and this is a pretty good reason. My worry was that I was simply overlooking a special set of event names that I could use, or maybe a global jQuery settin... read more »

• Ask Ben: Showing Related Form Fields Based On A Given Selection

  Posted on Dec 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM

  Can you elaborate a bit further on 'seeking.change();'? I bind a LOT of my form elements using jQuery and always get frustrated when I have another method change a select box and of course THAT change doesn't fire the ".change() binding". Let me know if that makes any sense at all. :)... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Web Service

  Posted on Nov 3, 2009 at 12:44 PM

  Ben, What are your thoughts on "RESTful" webservices (I still have a hard time calling them webservices since they aren't REALLY). I'd be interested in reading your approach to building them with CF.... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Web Service

  Posted on Nov 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM

  Ben - Makes total sense. I had a feeling that since CF converts the CFC to a WSDL document, you lose a lot of functionality that CFCs usually provide. I suppose when I go to refactor my app, I should highly consider a RESTful approach. That does seem to be the "proper way to do it" these... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Web Service

  Posted on Oct 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM

  Here's a good one... Let's say I have a basic cfc with 2 methods setSomeValue() This method takes 1 arguments and sets it to the variables scope. getSomeValue() This method returns variables.someValue (whatever was set in the previous method) REALLY straight for... read more »