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Recent Blog Comments By Justin Carter

• ColdFusion 10 - Script vs. Tags And My Coding Methodology

  Posted on Mar 30, 2012 at 7:24 AM

  Interesting that you've made the switch to script based components Ben! Out of curiosity, how are you finding the syntax of database queries and queries of queries? I'm still finding them way too clunky and verbose...... read more »

• Getting Ready For Scotch On The Rocks (SOTR) 2010

  Posted on May 20, 2010 at 10:58 AM

  @Ben and @Ray, fingers crossed that volcano behaves for your flights, looking forward to meeting you both :) And Ben, yep the UK has Monster, not sure if the range of flavours is the same though.... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using CFQuery (And Other Service Tags) In CFScript

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 11:06 AM

  Ok, cool stuff ;)... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using CFQuery (And Other Service Tags) In CFScript

  Posted on May 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM

  @Ben: Regarding Rick's and Justice's comments above, did you see my recent blog entry on XML and CFML tag literals for cfscript? http://www.madfellas.com/blog... read more »

• The Tick On ColdFusion

  Posted on May 14, 2010 at 9:46 AM

  ROFL! Ben, that's awesome. That's wallpaper worthy :)... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Implicit Struct And Array Usage

  Posted on Jul 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM

  Definitely both funky bugs. Just to clarify too, I think we should state that these relate to the ColdFusion 9 *Public Beta* - hopefully they won't be present in the final release of ColdFusion 9 ;)... read more »

• Create A Running Average Without Storing Individual Values

  Posted on Jul 3, 2009 at 2:57 PM

  This is how I always want to implement average rating kind of features (with just two fields) but I usually have the requirement for ensuring a user can only add a rating once, hence resorting to the usual "store each value with a userID in an intermediate table" approach :P... read more »

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

  Posted on Jul 1, 2009 at 5:54 PM

  The most obvious use for onMissingTemplate() is when you actually want to handle a request for a .cfm file that doesn't exist. ColdFusion processes all .cfm requests and so in that case it would leave you with a ColdFusion template not found error page rather than showing the web servers 404 Not... read more »

• ColdFusion Tag Parameters Can Be Included In Separate Files (Thanks Mark Drew!)

  Posted on Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM

  I've also done this with nested custom tags in the ColdExt project, with a bit of trickery looking through the list of parent tags you can safely ignore standard CF tags (including cfinclude) and only pass data back to a parent tag that belongs to your own library (using cfassociate), even when t... read more »

• CFM Templates And Remote CFCs - They're All Just ColdFusion Page Requests

  Posted on May 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM

  Maybe people are just impressed that CF8 lets you specify returnformat="plain" on remote method calls to let you get back a plain text response, since CFMX7 and before doesn't support returnformat and always wraps the response in a WDDX packet. A few weeks ago I was working on a CFMX7 serv... read more »

• The New BenNadel.com - Same Content, Fresh New Look

  Posted on May 10, 2009 at 6:06 PM

  Looks slick Ben, congrats :)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM

  And now I realise that it's somewhat useless passing in a scope if it might not exist... Haha.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 7:06 PM

  Errrr, that's supposed to be attributes.scope and not arguments.scope too :)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 7:05 PM

  @Ben: Ahh, I see what you mean about the calling context and using something like cfthread, nice trick :) Perhaps you could also pass a reference to the namespace/scope to the custom tag rather than passing the namespace as a string? e.g. <cf_demo2> or... <cf_demo2... read more »

• Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM

  I do a similar thing in ColdExt to keep track of loaded JS resources, though I just use the request scope directly, as you say you would traditionally do. Is the combination of the caller scope + StructKeyExists() letting you do something that wouldn't normally be possible, or is it just letting... read more »

• Paraming ColdFusion XML Documents With CFParam

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM

  Ben beat me to it! I tested it as well, and you can just use the array notation. The XML document would need a <girls> root node though of course :)... read more »

• Paraming ColdFusion XML Documents With CFParam

  Posted on May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM

  @todd: Nope it only does the first node, you would have to loop over each <girl> node I guess.... read more »

• Randomly Executing Only One ColdFusion Custom Tag Child

  Posted on Apr 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM

  Custom tags rock :) I think complex nested custom tags are one of the most under used features of CF. The cfassociate tag, GetBaseTagData() and GetBaseTagList() can do some pretty awesome stuff and until I wrote ColdExt I had no idea just how powerful a few custom tags could be. The cfexit/... read more »

• ColdFusion Components As Data Types - Help Or Hindrance?

  Posted on Apr 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM

  I think one reason enough to not use CFC's as data types is the lack of performance when it comes to object instantiation. Usually a data type is a simpler construct than a full blown class (which is pretty much what a CFC is). For example in C/C++ the "struct" keyword is what you use to de... read more »

• Overriding ColdFusion's ArgumentCollection And An Extremely Weird Behavior!

  Posted on Dec 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM

  @Ben: Cool stuff :)... read more »