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Recent Blog Comments By Tom Chiverton

• Calculating CSS Selector Specificity Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 18, 2012 at 4:03 AM

  Interesting. I looked at this recently and just used a loop around http://cssparser.sourceforge.net to call http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors - Part II

  Posted on Apr 17, 2012 at 4:01 AM

  @Michael, Because then all your mail and template handling code is in one place. The CFC is probably a Facade or something that knows how to orchestrate the templates and CFMAIL - logic best not scattered all over the app. Tom... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors - Part II

  Posted on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM

  Very cool. Now if I could just get it working by configuring in ColdSpring I could easily (further) secure several boundaries in an application... actually, I wonder if this might be a good way to 9re)implement the remoteMethodNames property of RemoteFactoryBean ...... read more »

• Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line

  Posted on Feb 14, 2012 at 11:10 AM

  Repeat after me, UNIX is wonderful :-)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Environment-Based Application.cfc Settings

  Posted on Jul 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM

  For those looking at this from a performance point of view, it looks like config() will be called once per-request, because Application.cfc is recreated on each request and so $Config is cleared. You can store the cache in the server scope to work around that, but you might want to use expan... read more »

• ColdFusion 8 ImageResize() / ImageWrite() Bug?

  Posted on Nov 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM

  Hi Ben; did you log this in the tracker ? Do you know if CF9 fixes it ? We just got bit on CF8, and doing this: myImage = imageCopy(pdfObj, 0, 0, imageInfo(pdfObj).width, imageInfo(pdfObj).height) ImageScaleToFit( myImage, 350,"", 'highestPerformance', 1 ) imageWri... read more »