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Recent Blog Comments By Randall

• Creating Microsoft Excel Documents With ColdFusion And XML

  Posted on Feb 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM

  @Ravi, Are you also setting the MIME type? application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet http://stackoverflow.com/questions/974079/setting-... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 21, 2013 at 10:48 AM

  Alternatively: https://www.dwolla.com/developers... read more »

• Detecting (And Canceling) Key-Combo Events With jQuery

  Posted on Jul 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM

  @Ben, Were you trying to prevent an ALT+#### input?... read more »

• Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship By Robert C. Martin

  Posted on Jul 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM

  @Ben, I've noticed my first pass always ends up working, but not necessarily the best way to do things. Usually AFTER you've written the code, you have the 20/20 hindsight of knowing what the other side looks like so you have a, "Oooh, y'know, I could speed up this here and not duplica... read more »

• Calculating CSS Selector Specificity Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 17, 2012 at 5:47 PM

  You made my day, Ben!... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 Beta - Generating Hash-Based Message Authentication Codes With Hmac()

  Posted on Mar 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM

  Sixteen days have passed and no one has made your day yet? This is a good post! How can I have been the one to make your day? Seriously?!... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Invoking ColdFusion Closures From Within A Java Context, Part II

  Posted on Mar 3, 2012 at 3:42 PM

  This feels a little like Microsoft helping Apple, or Darth Vader helping Luke Skywalker ;-)... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Invoking ColdFusion Closures From Within A Java Context, Part II

  Posted on Mar 3, 2012 at 9:55 AM

  Ben, can you say why we need to learn two languages? I'm fighting at work to claim cf is great, but if we have to write in java any way, why not simplify my code and only use java? - Devil's Advocate... read more »

• Back To The Fusion - Part X

  Posted on Feb 22, 2012 at 2:09 PM

  Ben, didn't I see you tweet something about a beta? I can't believe it's been a year since you posted this!... read more »

• Using An IFrame To Override document.write() Inside A DOM (Document Object Model) Sandbox

  Posted on Jan 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM

  Once again, making your day (w/o any additional valuable input)... read more »

• Loading GitHub Gists After The Page Content Has Loaded

  Posted on Jan 13, 2012 at 5:30 PM

  Ben, Pfffff, white-space ain't going anywhere You forgot an F. I think you mean "pFFFFFF white-space ain't going anywhere." ;-) But maybe since this is a CF blog, you really meant to say "##FFFFFF"... read more »

• A Book Apart: Mobile First By Luke Wroblewski

  Posted on Jan 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM

  Lookup/Find, Explore/Play, Check In/Status, Edit/Create I heart this post. And it summarizes what we all already knew, but didn't completely know .... read more »

• Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources

  Posted on Jan 11, 2012 at 12:33 PM

  Unfortunately I have nothing to add, but I thought I'd make your day anyway (and subscribe to future comments). Enjoy reading the JQuery posts!... read more »

• Disabling Auto-Correct And Auto-Capitalize Features On iPhone Inputs

  Posted on Jan 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM

  @WebManWalking, Agreed. AutoCorrect is still on on my Android, but I turned it off when I had my iPhone3G. Annoying. But thanks for the @@ shortcut idea. Will turn that on the iPad for sure.... read more »

• For Pay: I Need A Few Hours Consulting On Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

  Posted on Dec 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM

  (after 22 Dec update) Wow! PERFECT timing. I am dazzled by JQ's drag/drop and definitely want to use this in my code. (Your demo) I drag-n'-dropped items 1, 2, 3, and 4 into the box. Then I dragged three and four back out. I then dragged #5 back in (thus the counter states "3&quo... read more »

• ColdFusion ORM: A Guide To Developing Applications Using ColdFusion ORM By John Whish

  Posted on Dec 19, 2011 at 7:43 PM

  Ben, Just re-installed CF9 at home and trying to learn Hibernate at work with Java. Any updates in the past couple of months? I actually Googled "CF9 ORM Ben Nadel" hoping you'd have even more about it. Checking out the Lulu link now.... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM

  Hot off the presses, er interwebs: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/5-alternatives-to-paypal/... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM

  Ben, Joshua mentioned it already, but www.square.com does this on Android and iOS, with a free reader.... read more »

• A Book Apart: Designing For Emotion By Aarron Walter

  Posted on Dec 6, 2011 at 10:03 AM

  As soon as I began reading, I was reminded of when we asked Siri, "How do I get to 95?" Okay, it was a different interstate, but you get the point. Amazingly, "she" said, "Take this route to get to Interstate 95." In response to, "Shall I create [your re... read more »

• Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 6, 2011 at 9:51 AM

  Ben, once again, I'm glad I haven't quit you (see your "Brokeback" post). As you discovered, this could come in real handy. nothing more than your bank routing number and account number That caused me to tense up a bit. I might sug... read more »