Community Member Profile

Recent Blog Comments By themanchicken

• My UNCIVILIZED Brand Cherry Wood iPhone Back From JackBacks

  Posted on Mar 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM

  I dig it. I have an Atomic case for my iPhone 4, anodized aluminum with a carbon-fiber backing. I like the wooden ones, but for some reason I can't find one that I really like like I like the aluminum ones.... read more »

• Using Encrypted JSON Data To Hide Cookie Implementation In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 8, 2011 at 11:26 AM

  Neat idea, you just need to be careful. I believe that cookies have a 1K limit. Very neat idea though.... read more »

• A Random Exploration Of Closure Use Cases In Javascript

  Posted on Feb 23, 2011 at 10:57 AM

  @Ben, Can I nitpick about return being a keyword rather than a function? :P @Drew, I don't begrudge anybody acting for more freedom, I categorically disagree with the tone of your response to my comment.... read more »

• A Random Exploration Of Closure Use Cases In Javascript

  Posted on Feb 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM

  @Ben, Yeah, it's super useful in automated testing, and also when you're dealing with third-party libraries which you want to bend to your will.... read more »

• A Random Exploration Of Closure Use Cases In Javascript

  Posted on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM

  @Ben, Say you're testing something which accesses a payment vendor, but in automated testing, you only want to prove that you've gotten to the method that calls the payment vendor, because you're not crazy and you want to test your payment stuff separately. Assuming this is your exist... read more »

• A Random Exploration Of Closure Use Cases In Javascript

  Posted on Feb 22, 2011 at 12:09 PM

  Don't forget closures for automated testing! Especially overriding methods at runtime with closures for automated testing.... read more »

• Circumventing Private Variables In Javascript Using Method Reassignment

  Posted on Feb 21, 2011 at 2:41 PM

  @Ben, Don't you go getting my hopes up now!... read more »

• Circumventing Private Variables In Javascript Using Method Reassignment

  Posted on Feb 21, 2011 at 2:27 PM

  @Ben, True, though I think what I put up might be the closest thing to a closure you can get... which isn't actually very close at all. *sigh*... read more »

• Circumventing Private Variables In Javascript Using Method Reassignment

  Posted on Feb 21, 2011 at 1:34 PM

  This is a fun way to do things, but let's not forget that you can do this in Coldfusion as well! components/mikestest.cfc: <cfcomponent> <cfscript> function init () { thi... read more »

• The Power Of Closures - Deferred Object Bindings In jQuery 1.5

  Posted on Feb 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM

  @Ben, Completely! I mean, I love function pointers, don't get me wrong, but closures and anonymous functions are so awesome that Apple even managed to implement them in Objective-C for Cocoa-based platforms... and they are nice. I understand it is possible to abuse and overuse feature... read more »

• The Power Of Closures - Deferred Object Bindings In jQuery 1.5

  Posted on Feb 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM

  @Ben, It's nice to have someone agree with me on that. Some of my buddies are C programmers who assert that nothing more than function pointers are necessary. I maintain that once you've seen and wept over (okay, maybe that's a stretch) the beauty of anonymous subroutines AND closures, you... read more »

• The Power Of Closures - Deferred Object Bindings In jQuery 1.5

  Posted on Feb 15, 2011 at 5:33 PM

  @Ben, I completely agree. That said, I like anonymous functions in and of themselves as well. I would also say that anonymous functions are an important part of closures, but they're not the most important part of an actual closure. An anonymous function on its own is still useful thou... read more »

• The Power Of Closures - Deferred Object Bindings In jQuery 1.5

  Posted on Feb 15, 2011 at 3:28 PM

  @Ben, Absolutely! Though if I had one request for CF, it would be a simpler form of lexical scoping. With CF9 we see a nice move in this direction with the formal "local" scope, but that's still not completely lexical. Lexical scoping would be necessary in order to have closures I... read more »

• Ode To ColdFusion On Valentine's Day

  Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM

  Does it matter? (honey, if you're reading I'm just joking.)... read more »

• Ode To ColdFusion On Valentine's Day

  Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM

  If only Coldfusion returned the affection. She is a cold, merciless mistress... but still we cannot help ourselves.... read more »

• The Power Of Closures - Deferred Object Bindings In jQuery 1.5

  Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM

  For the most part I've worked in languages having closures, but I often miss them when I work in Coldfusion. I've seen some clever work-arounds, but there's really no good substitute for closures the way that you can do them in languages like JavaScript, Perl, or Python. This is a pretty go... read more »