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Recent Blog Comments By Paul

• QUERY.ColumnList Does Not Return True Column Ordering

  Posted on Mar 28, 2013 at 2:15 AM

  @Bret, Exactly the same reason I came here. The solution worked great, thanks!... read more »

• ColdFusion Query Error: Value Can Not Be Converted To Requested Type

  Posted on Jan 10, 2012 at 8:20 PM

  Thanks, saved me yet again.... read more »

• Graceful ColdFusion Timeout Disaster Recovery (Thanks Barney Boisvert)

  Posted on Sep 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM

  It would be good to be able to allow processing to continue for a second once we hit the timeout mark. This would take care of those requests you really need to run, and usually would run if it hadn't been for some unexpected load on the server.... read more »

• ColdFusion Date Math Faster Than Date Methods... And Other Date/Math Ramblings

  Posted on Aug 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM

  I'm stumped and can't find anything online. Our CF code calls an ASP.NET web service passing the following parameters: Web service operation Usage with parameters {EndDate={{ts '2011-08-31 00:00:00'}},StartDate={{ts '2011-08-01 00:00:00'}},CustomerCode={905841},FullUserName={customeris},Ses... read more »

• KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client (Beta)

  Posted on Jul 30, 2011 at 5:22 AM

  Sweet, I'm loving it, I'm usin' it.... read more »

• Thoroughly Document Your Use Of ColdFusion's CFHTMLHead Tag

  Posted on May 23, 2011 at 6:40 PM

  hehe, you described exactly what I've just been through with this tag. I inherited the allblacks.com website and was getting ready to insert some Facebook Open Graph meta tags. Some time later, I finally traced the meta tags to a <cfhtmlHead> tag hiding in onRequestEnd.cfm.... read more »

• Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 7, 2011 at 11:55 PM

  Correction: It does appear to have dealt with them.... read more »

• Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 6, 2011 at 10:13 PM

  How do I take care of these pesky U+FFFF non-characters plaguing my XML? Your function apparently didn't cut it on those.... read more »

• Content Is Not Allowed In Prolog - ColdFusion XML And The Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)

  Posted on Feb 24, 2011 at 10:56 PM

  Ben, this saved my ass. Thanks for having the energy in your busy schedule to post this stuff.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Selecting XML Attributes Given Other XML Attributes

  Posted on Feb 17, 2011 at 11:47 PM

  Correction to that code provided: <cfset matchNodes = xmlSearch(scheduleXml,"/SportData/Sport/Schedules/Match/MatchDate[(@StartDateLocal) >= '#now()#']")>... read more »

• Ask Ben: Selecting XML Attributes Given Other XML Attributes

  Posted on Feb 17, 2011 at 11:44 PM

  Hey Ben, Could you give us an example of how to return nodes according to a date range? I tried posting sample XML within <code></code> tags, but got an error: Your comment contains restricted HTML elements (A). For a live-scoring app, I need to get the first... read more »

• Posting XML SOAP Requests With jQuery

  Posted on Dec 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM

  Hi Ben, Could you show us how to work with just a subset of the returned XML. I managed to get your jquery/ajax example working, but it's a huge SOAP XML return with "soap:envelope" and "table:diffgr" etc crapola all over the place and I want to just get down to the data... read more »

• Posting XML SOAP Requests With jQuery

  Posted on Dec 14, 2010 at 8:07 PM

  I flagged the regex and just did something like this: var soapBody = soapTemplate.html() .replace('${SessionID}', vSessionID ) .replace('${CustomerCode}', vCustomerCode ) .replace('${FullUserName}', vUser... read more »

• Posting XML SOAP Requests With jQuery

  Posted on Dec 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM

  How does the code below change if there are more than one parameters to pass (i.e. not only zip): var soapBody = soapTemplate.html().replace( new RegExp( "\\$\\{[^}]+\\}", "i" ), zip.val() read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating ColdFusion Templates On The Fly

  Posted on Nov 13, 2010 at 7:51 AM

  Thanks for this Ben. You saved my day. God bless you.... read more »

• Custom User Agents For ColdFusion Debugging

  Posted on Oct 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM

  Thanks! Awesome...I'm using it.... read more »

• Paginating Record Sets In ColdFusion With One SQL Server Call

  Posted on Jul 27, 2010 at 2:49 AM

  I love your tutorials, but man they're hard to follow with the double-line spacing, comments, returns and tabbing. I thought those things were supposed to make things 'easier' to follow..hehe... read more »