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• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Nov 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM

  @Henry Crystaltech, HostMySite and Hostek all have decent service, bar the occasional downtime which seems to be prevalent with all of them. On average I'd also rate their customer service at a 6 - 7 which isn't bad. Recently though, to my own surprise, I moved to Railo CFML in... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Nov 27, 2009 at 3:15 PM

  @Henry - I have to disagree with James STRONGLY! GoDaddy is not good! They are not CF specialists and the only way you'll benefit from them is if you need hosting for a large capacity. With regards to the CF industry, they lag behind enormously and their support staff are not specialised. Al... read more »

• Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)

  Posted on Sep 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM

  Awesome man! Been meaning to get myself a copy of Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" but somehow never find the time. That is much cleaner and I presume less resource intensive!... read more »

• Building A Simple ColdFusion Dependency Injection Framework

  Posted on Aug 19, 2009 at 5:27 AM

  Hi Ben I know that you are moving ahead with a lot of new CF9 features and / or different methodologies / frameworks. Please could you explain why you would use this whole Factory approach as aopposed to something like: <cfif NOT StructKeyExists( application, 'appInitialize... read more »

• The Regular Expression Cookbook By Steven Levithan And Jan Goyvaerts

  Posted on Jul 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM

  Have you read Jeffrey Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions?? If so, is it better than that? Because from what I've read and heard, that book is the daddy of all books when it comes to Regular Expressions.... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jul 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM

  @Jody, Sure - and if you read my previous posts, you'll see that up till about 2 months ago I used to rave about them too. But recently that's changed.... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jul 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM

  Hahaha - this is sooo funny! I'm busy downloading my database and website files from my HostMySite hosting (to move away from them), when all of a sudden the FTP transaction cuts out and my connection to their Control Panel dies!! Then your Blog Reply about them constantly being dow... read more »

• Free ColdFusion 9 Beta Hosting On Hostek.com

  Posted on Jul 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM

  I signed up with Hostek about a month ago to test drive some CF CMS software. They are cheap and reliable and I have had no issues with them so far! Glad to hear they've already jumped on board the CF9 Beta release!... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jul 3, 2009 at 2:56 AM

  I just received a mail from CrystalTech.com this morning that might explain that huge downtime a lot of us experienced at HostMySite a week ago. Considering that HMS did not offer us any explanation for the WEEK of downtime, I will take the liberty to speculate and say that this was probab... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jun 29, 2009 at 1:46 PM

  @jish. I agree - I never had a problem with Crystaltech. I had to leave them only because they didn't allow adult content. :)... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jun 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM

  Mike - Thank Goodness someone else brought this up! I thought I was the only one!! 3 of my sites all went down on the 21st and I spent almost a WEEK trying to get them sorted out and up and running again! It was SO frustrating working with HostMySite on this issue. They kept skirting aroun... read more »

• Ask Ben: Accessing Cached CFCs With AJAX via Remote Proxies

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 7:20 AM

  @Will Aaah - makes sense then! Ta!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Accessing Cached CFCs With AJAX via Remote Proxies

  Posted on Apr 16, 2009 at 2:50 AM

  How was the author of the question able to notice that new instances of the component were being created each time a call was made? Or was it obvious because he didn't have access to the application scope from AJAX?... read more »

• What Is The Best Time Of Day To Workout?

  Posted on Apr 15, 2009 at 7:08 AM

  Hey Ben I'm sure if you and Secret Admirer got together in the mornings you would be able to find a workout that you could manage ;) hahaha!... read more »

• Dig Deep Fitness iPhone App Gets A Huge Usability Upgrade

  Posted on Apr 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM

  @Ben I think we quits at the moment :) No outstanding mails that I can recall!... read more »

• Dig Deep Fitness iPhone App Gets A Huge Usability Upgrade

  Posted on Apr 1, 2009 at 5:58 AM

  Dude - I need this... ...I also need an i-Phone LOL!... read more »

• Note About CFLogin, Application Name, And ApplicationToken

  Posted on Mar 20, 2009 at 4:40 AM

  Ben - posts like these really make my day! They open my eyes to little things that I never would have thought about on my own! applicationToken - Fantastic!!! :)... read more »

• Creating An Abstract Base Class In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM

  Another quickie... If you set variables in the pseudo constructor - is it possible to define them without any values, like in .NET, for example, can you do this: <cfset variables.instance.name /> <cfset variables.instance.age /> instead of: <cfset vari... read more »

• Creating An Abstract Base Class In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 12, 2009 at 5:43 AM

  Hi All. I have been coding in .NET C# recently, and a lot of the time you will have your class variables defined before you even declare any methods, for example: class Person { private String name; private int age; public Person(String tName, int tAge)read more »

• Applying Flattened CSS To XHTML For Use In Remote Environments

  Posted on Mar 10, 2009 at 3:24 AM

  @Ben What does the final emailBody look like? Could you post the code as well?... read more »