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• JSON Files As Temporary File Storage In ColdFusion Applications

  Posted on Jan 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM

  Interesting approach. With CF9 using ORM is great for stuff like this where you want to store data but don't want the hassle of dealing with databases.... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 6:59 PM

  @Ben: Cool. Now I want to read his book as well!... read more »

• Thoughts About Salaries And Raises As Motivated By Daniel Pink's Book, Drive

  Posted on Jan 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM

  Interesting post Ben. If possible #5 is the way to go. The best programmers are generally creative people and they perform best when comfortable and motivated on a more holistic level. Other factors will also shape this like having monthly one-on-ones instead of annual reviews. Watch thi... read more »

• jQuery Events: MouseOver / MouseOut vs. MouseEnter / MouseLeave

  Posted on Jan 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM

  Ben, Thanks for posting this...I am right in the middle of trying to solve this problem and this works awesomely. The only difference is I am using ExtJS 3 and it works just the same. As an aside I'm finding a lot of similarities between ExtJS and jQuery.... read more »

• NYC + Snow + ColdFusion + jQuery = Winter Wonderland

  Posted on Dec 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM

  Awesome!... read more »

• Creating Globally Accessible User Defined Functions In ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM

  @Ben Very cool find. I'm pretty torn whether its a good idea or not though. On one hand its very cool and useful. On the other it could be a debugging clusterf**k since its added at the server level when really it should be at the application level. Then there is the issue th... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Iterating Over Pseudo XML Node Wrappers With CFLoop

  Posted on Oct 31, 2009 at 2:51 PM

  Cool find. Thats going to help me next week!... read more »

• My BFusion / BFLEX Keynote Address

  Posted on Oct 24, 2009 at 5:36 PM

  Great speech and a very interesting point of view. Out of interest did you use slides as well or did you do this old skool and just speak?... read more »

• ColdFusion's OnMissingTemplate() Event Handler Works With CFC Requests

  Posted on Aug 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM

  I've always thought this was a cool feature but not one I can work out something to do with it!... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 9: Referencing Arrays Returned From Methods

  Posted on Jul 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM

  I really like this addition.... read more »

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

  Posted on Jul 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM

  Due to how requests work its not really possible for CF to act as a URL rewiriter since those happen before the web server decides where to send the request which is where CF comes to the party. As with any technology they have advantages and disadvantages including some advantages over sta... read more »

• ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo

  Posted on Jun 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM

  @Dave: All cfforms within cflayout or cfdiv will submit via AJAX. Have you tried putting the iframe outside of all the cflayout tags?... read more »

• Regular Expressions With Repeated Groups

  Posted on Apr 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM

  @Ben: Yet again you saved me a hell of a lot of time with this post! Thanks.... read more »

• My 1,000th ColdFusion Post - What It Means To Me (And Free Prizes)

  Posted on Jan 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM

  I forgot to add my why cf: i love cf because it makes the hard things easy and seems to "think" the same way I do. Or it has trained me to think that way...hmmm....... read more »

• My 1,000th ColdFusion Post - What It Means To Me (And Free Prizes)

  Posted on Jan 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM

  Congrats that is a great achievement and thanks for some great posts that have saved me a lot of time.... read more »

• Apple iPhone 3G Has Been Extremely Frustrating

  Posted on Aug 27, 2008 at 9:36 AM

  Sounds like a lemon. Have you tried taking it back to apple?... read more »

• ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo

  Posted on Aug 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM

  @Ben: I was merging this with a whole bunch of other JS and things got a little too complicated. So I added a permanent iframe to the page and always post to that (which is fine for my use case) and it solved the "always thinking" issue. Not sure what the cause was but thought that might help.<... read more »

• ColdFusion, jQuery, And "AJAX" File Upload Demo

  Posted on Aug 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM

  Awesome example. Thanks Ben...this helped out a great deal.... read more »

• iPhone 3G - One Week Review Of The Apple iPhone 3G Black 16 Gig Model

  Posted on Jul 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM

  checking my GMail from the comfort of my bed suuurree, thats what you are using the faster internet for in bed. :)... read more »

• I Won Steven Levithan's Regular Expression Contest!

  Posted on Jul 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM

  Congrats!... read more »