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Recent Blog Comments By WebManWalking

• ColdFusion 10 Beta, Apache Tomcat, And Symbolic Links On Mac OSX

  Posted on Feb 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM

  Thanks, Ben. Is your MacBook Pro running Lion or Snow Leopard? (My ONLY reason for not upgrading my MBP to Lion was that it wouldn't support CF 9. No PowerPC apps on the laptop to get messed up by the loss of Rosetta. I'm still on Snow Leopard for that sole reason.)... read more »

• How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation

  Posted on Dec 31, 2011 at 3:41 PM

  @Ben, Yeah, that was my point. Used properly, JavaScript is the magic ingredient that can fix everything that's still royally messed up about HTML and CSS. It now helps accessibility much more than it hurts it. You're well justified in your numerous experiments and explorations to ex... read more »

• The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die By John Izzo

  Posted on Oct 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM

  @Anna, It takes so much concentration to keep your mind from wandering, the instant you stop, your mind fills up with somethings again.... read more »

• Creating A CFThread-Based Process In ColdFusion In Order To Learn About Concurrency

  Posted on Dec 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM

  @Ben, My big eye-opener about modern multicore computers and concurrency was Java Concurrency in Action: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/... read more »

• Learning Event-Driven Programming Best Practices From Web Browsers

  Posted on Dec 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM

  @Ben, This observation might help: If the onevent() handler can prevent the default behavior by returning false or calling preventDefault(), the event() method generally doesn't call the onevent() handler. That way, you can call onevent() to decide whether to trigger event(). But you... read more »

• Learning Event-Driven Programming Best Practices From Web Browsers

  Posted on Dec 14, 2010 at 3:21 AM

  @Ben, The reason why browsers decouple submit() and onsubmit() is so that your JavaScripts can do only one thing. It can be thought of as a logical atomism or fine granularity. For example, suppose that you have an (input type="button") button that you want to go to a diffe... read more »

• Very Simple Pusher And ColdFusion Powered Chat

  Posted on Nov 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM

  @asim, There are actually 2 message gateway types already defined in CF Admin's Gateway Types page: SMS (phone text messaging) and XMPP instant messaging. In other words, you don't need to write a messaging app. CF ships with 2 of them. You just need to hook them up. You could... read more »

• Very Simple Pusher And ColdFusion Powered Chat

  Posted on Nov 28, 2010 at 11:23 PM

  @Ben, You'll like it. Event Gateways are a different way of coding, but fun. Here's a good, practical use for Event Gateways: Define a "directory watcher" that looks for new files in an FTP upload directory. If it sees any, it cfexecutes a virus scanner on the file. If the... read more »

• Building A Fixed-Position Bottom Menu Bar (ala FaceBook)

  Posted on Nov 19, 2010 at 10:32 AM

  @All, In case you missed it: http://jqueryui.com/demos/position/ Positioning is such a generic problem, it was only a matter of time before there would be a generic jQuery UI solution. One of the o... read more »

• Creating An ArgumentArray Collection In ColdFusion 9 Using TreeMap

  Posted on Nov 5, 2010 at 12:56 PM

  @Ben, just as an aside on maps: For all intents and purposes, you can think of java.util.HashMap as a ColdFusion struct and java.util.TreeMap as a struct on which you've done x = ListSort(StructKeyList(struct)) and you're using x to iterate over the struct. That is, TreeMap is like an orde... read more »

• Javascript Patterns By Stoyan Stefanov

  Posted on Nov 2, 2010 at 9:23 AM

  Yay!... read more »

• Javascript Patterns By Stoyan Stefanov

  Posted on Nov 2, 2010 at 9:22 AM

  Sorry about this: <testing>...</testing> Indentation too.... read more »

• Javascript Patterns By Stoyan Stefanov

  Posted on Nov 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM

  #Whitespace, #Readability: One of the whitespace avoidance patterns I never use is putting { at end of line and } at beginning of line followed by something else. The reason is that { and } have syntactical significance, so they should be visibly indented with the block they define. Furthe... read more »

• Using ColdFusion's PrecisionEvaluate() Function To Perform Big Integer Math

  Posted on Oct 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM

  Wow. This looks to be the EASIEST way to do BigIntegers. Thanks!... read more »

• Invoking Javascript Methods With Both Named And Ordered Arguments

  Posted on Oct 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM

  @Ben, Thanks for this. A lot of people don't know the key trick of using toString() on a function. And your extactArgumentMap and building the orderedArguments array add real, non-trivial extra value. I really think you should send this to John Resig. jQuery routines often accept obj... read more »

• Breaking Out Of jQuery's Each() Iteration Method

  Posted on Oct 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM

  After reading this article, I'm thinkin' maybe I should switch to using "return true" for "continue". Returning nothing is kinda falsy.... read more »

• Breaking Out Of jQuery's Each() Iteration Method

  Posted on Oct 18, 2010 at 12:51 PM

  And a simple "return" is the equivalent of "continue".... read more »

• Using ColdFusion With Pusher - A Notification Service Powered By HTML5 WebSockets

  Posted on Oct 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM

  @Ben, jQuery 1.4.3 core includes the functionality of my .defineDatasets() plugin! This is an own-horn-tooting followup to my Jun 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM post in this thread. jQuery 1.4.3 was just released today: read more »

• The Integer Division Operator In ColdFusion

  Posted on Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM

  @All, Roland's right. Integer division has been in CF for a long time. The biggest thing I got out of taking the CF certified developer's test was studying for it. That's where you pick up on things you don't commonly use and may have slipped under your radar. On the subject o... read more »

• The Integer Division Operator In ColdFusion

  Posted on Oct 12, 2010 at 1:52 AM

  I'll bet you're keeping all of those rounded-down fractional pennies, aren't-cha. :-)... read more »