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Recent Blog Comments By Matt Hunnell

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 30, 2012 at 5:17 PM

  @Snake, I have inherited dozens of sites/apps in CF, C#, VB, and PHP mostly small to medium scale sites, so I think I have a pretty good handle on how various languages get used. PHP sites tend to be the worst, probably because people that won't pay for hosting wont pay for a decent develop... read more »

• Object Oriented Programming And ColdFusion - What's The Point?

  Posted on Oct 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM

  Coldfusion's greatest flaw is that it is too easy to use. Because that any idiot with a keyboard can start building spagetti code that somewhere down the line is going to turn into a maintenance nightmare and in many cases cost businesses money. Programmers who learn to build things in the OO mod... read more »

• ColdFusion Query of Queries And Undefined Cell Values

  Posted on Mar 4, 2011 at 10:39 AM

  I was getting a null pointer running a QofQ of another Q. It did not always occur depending on the data. Even if I removed the Where statement in the final QofQ it still threw the error. I was able to fix it by explicitly declaring the column dataTypes in the first QofQ. Hope that helps so... read more »

• ColdFusion 8's OnMissingTemplate() - So Close To Being Good

  Posted on Feb 5, 2010 at 12:27 PM

  For missing img sources, i've found this onError javascript to be an easy way to fail gracefully. You could even uses a dyanmic page as your onError source to return different images based on the Params I think. We sometimes have to use images on servers that we don't have direct access to, so th... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 12, 2010 at 1:06 PM

  As usual Ben, Great insight. I have found that profit sharing can be a great motivator that ties employees choices directly to What is Best for the company. Even if the $ amount is small, it's the ability to have an impact that can make a difference. I have also seen it first hand t... read more »