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Recent Blog Comments By David McGuigan

• Extending ColdFusion Components And Its Impact On Page Performance

  Posted on Feb 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM

  Ah gotcha, makes perfect sense.... read more »

• Extending ColdFusion Components And Its Impact On Page Performance

  Posted on Feb 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM

  Sidenote: Ben, just noticed your main page is /index.cfm and all of your entries and the member profiles rock a .htm extension. What the what? Is that some kind of trick-people-and-computers-into-thinking-it's-1990-again caching or pyramid scheme technique you're using? What's going on? I'm... read more »

• Extending ColdFusion Components And Its Impact On Page Performance

  Posted on Feb 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM

  Assuming it's correct, that just blew my mind.... read more »

• What Happens When A ColdFusion CFLock Timeout Is Exceeded Without Error?

  Posted on Feb 18, 2010 at 11:44 PM

  I'd never thought to use a named lock to guarantee that frequently running scheduled tasks wait for themselves! Genius. I can't believe that the minimum timeout you can use is 1 second. That's like 10 minutes in Internet years.... read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 12:24 PM

  @Drew: Ah, thanks. I'd assumed that it just used Web Workers ( or whatever Javascript's multithreading technology is called ) under the hood to run animations simultaneously. Very good to know.... read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 3:02 AM

  Isn't delay for sequencing and orchestrating time-based animation? Like making element A fade out, and then 1/2 second later element B fade in a simpler and conciser way than managing setTimeouts or termination triggers yourself? Wouldn't .animate({ opacity:1 }) just animate the opacity in when t... read more »

• jQuery 1.4 Released - Hella Sweeeet!

  Posted on Jan 14, 2010 at 11:52 PM

  The delay method looks tight! But much more importantly, "better support for Java applets". I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Java applets are going to be HUGE, in the future.... read more »

• My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of The jQuery Event Object

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 at 1:54 AM

  Scratch that. jQuery creates its own scratch object and actually copies over properties from the browser's original event object. That knowledge will come in handy some day if there's ever a Fallout 3 apocalypse and I find myself sitting around playing some kind of legacy technology trivia game i... read more »

• My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of The jQuery Event Object

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 at 1:48 AM

  PS I like that you're totally obsessed with jQuery, I love jQuery too. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the Flash Platform and Actionscript, and if you've thought about it, why you're as excited as you are about jQuery and AJAX apps without being even MORE excited about Actions... read more »

• My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of The jQuery Event Object

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 at 1:43 AM

  So is what's actually happening that the browser instantiates the event object internally and jQuery gets handed that, which IT then feeds to all of the subscribing handlers by reference? I wonder if jQuery has a setting or option to let you get the event object by value instead which seem... read more »

• Creating Globally Accessible User Defined Functions In ColdFusion (Safer Version)

  Posted on Dec 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM

  Ben, awesome posts. I lobbied my ass off to get this capability into CF9, even suggesting solutions as cheap as letting you add application and request to the unscoped variable wiring queue on a per-application ( application.cfc setting ) or per-instance basis ( administrator option ). <... read more »

• ColdFusion ArraySplice() Method As An Example Of A Dynamic Method Signature

  Posted on Nov 25, 2009 at 4:51 AM

  Nice to see someone giving CF a little "dynamic method signature" discussion love. Intelligently overloaded function signatures are one of the most powerful techniques for quality API authoring. jQuery's selector method is probably the greatest single example of how you can consolidate an... read more »

• CFContent-Variable Response vs. Standard Output Response

  Posted on Nov 24, 2009 at 1:14 AM

  I always thought you took the streamy approach because of some kind of performance gains or reduced server overhead you secretly knew about. Excited for the follow up.... read more »

• Five Months Without Hungarian Notation And I'm Loving It

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 12:59 AM

  Atta boy. I've been a HUGE fan of headlessCamelCase since I discovered it right at the beginning of my career. It's just so readable and fluid to type. Pretty much the only time I don't use it ( and use underscores instead ) is in certain types of dynamic and generated code where a physical delim... read more »

• My First ColdFusion Builder Extension - Encrypting And Decrypting CFM / CFC Files

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM

  Is this the same thing or different than cfcompile? I never get an Allaire header when I use that, it's usually a max of 3 miscellaneous looking characters. If it is the same, is there any real way to successfully physically protect your CFML source code when distributing it?... read more »

• jQuery In Action By Bear Bibeault And Yehuda Katz

  Posted on Oct 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM

  Hey Ben, just noticed you've had multiple posts on multiple jQuery books, and they all looked like pretty positive reviews. If you had to pick one book over all the others to recommend to someone who's used jQuery a bit and has intermediate-to-advanced Javascript skiyells, which one would you pic... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Aug 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM

  HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. CF5?!?!? WHEN DOES THAT COME OUT. BLEEDING EDGE! SIGN ME UP.... read more »

• Win A FREE Ticket To CFUNITED 2009

  Posted on Aug 1, 2009 at 2:29 AM

  AIR Messaging: Integrating AIR, BlazeDS, and ColdFusion I've got all of this ColdFusion skill and some great ideas for desktop apps. ColdFusion to AS3-powered AIR apps with some Blaze sounds like a recipe for bad assery.... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jul 31, 2009 at 2:25 PM

  Jody! I filed this ( null pointer datasource issue ) as a bug with Adobe and they've fixed it for ColdFusion 9 as of this morning! Woohoo.... read more »

• HostMySite.com Has The Best ColdFusion Hosting

  Posted on Jun 30, 2009 at 1:18 AM

  Jody: No, that all makes perfect sense. Thank you. I'm actually running all dedicated servers so this won't be an issue in production luckily. I was just curious as to how you solved it. Great solutions. Thanks again.... read more »