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Recent Blog Comments By David McGuigan

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:41 AM

  @Ben, I don't know man. Fireworks is a pretty spectacular tool. I always saw it as the superhero-like love child of Photoshop and Illustrator. It can do most of the things that each of them can do in a single app and most of the time ( opinion ) more obviously, smoothly, and accessibly, as... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:11 AM

  P.S. If you ever can't figure out how to use an appropriate chunk of time you find, it'd be nice to be able to edit our comments. I have an OCD thing about misspellings hahaha ( ingenious ).... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:10 AM

  This post really made me think. And I think your approach is ingenius. When I've prototyped up interfaces before I've fallen into all of the traps you've alluded to and ended up spending way too much time iterating through endless purely aesthetic design decisions for hours instead of focusing or... read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 1, 2013 at 12:39 PM

  @Ben, Hahahaha, that's extremely OCD. I like it.... read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM

  Ben, can you elaborate on this? "LEFT OUTER JOIN (yuck!!!)"... read more »

• Tiny Test - An Exploration Of Unit Testing In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM

  I'm in the same boat, have never adopted it or particularly seen the value in it. I generally just opt to not write code that would ever error. But I know that that's "wrong", excited to play with this. Thanks!... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 12:11 PM

  Ben, this is really encouraging. AngularJS was high on my New Year's Resolutions, and seeing ColdFusion's poster boy endorse it sure adds some steam to the sauna. Most posts on Angular please!... read more »

• Ask Ben: Getting The Domain Name From The Referer URL

  Posted on Nov 1, 2012 at 3:50 PM

  This post just saved me a few minutes years after the fact. Thanks!... read more »

• Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain

  Posted on Jul 13, 2012 at 2:10 PM

  Just admit that you read that book because you thought its author was hot.... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 21, 2012 at 5:14 PM

  Holly hell. Numeric. Ok that's it, a "retina" display is not worth coming off as ESL in your typing.... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 21, 2012 at 5:12 PM

  Stupid autocorrect, init. Not unit.... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 21, 2012 at 5:11 PM

  @Jim, That's irrelevant. Adobe already has their Java that translates your CFML into the loop processing, they simply have to do what we do now in CF ( unit and increment a numerical counter manually ) in their Java. I've requested this feature twice now and I know countless others have to... read more »

• ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

  Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 2:47 AM

  "Trust me, this will come back to bite you. Your query column references should always be explicitly scoped." I stopped reading there. Yikes Ben, just yikes. Huge fan of your blog but this post seems misguided in my opinion. Using contextually implicit query column referenci... read more »

• Creating Globally Accessible User Defined Functions In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM

  I'm sure this goes without saying but please blog your experiences. I'd love to see some evidence of this functioning well in production and even get Adobe's thoughts on it. Man I really wish we could do this formally.... read more »

• Creating Globally Accessible User Defined Functions In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 24, 2012 at 2:55 AM

  So it looks like CF10 is going to ship without the ability to extend the language at the global level yet again, so I'm going to toy with using this approach. I think I'd prefer to not pollute the form and url scopes or to have to scope-reference globals even with a shorthand, so thanks a... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jul 5, 2011 at 11:48 AM

  @Jaana Thank god. Yeah the orange one is tacky and would've ruined my visualization. I popped a key off of a Dell laptop once too, I think it has to do with the angle you strike them at, but I just called them and they overnighted me a totally free full keyboard replacement the next d... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jul 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM

  @Jaana Just a note: Picturing a female with a 16GB M6500 is maybe the hottest thing I have ever heard of. Do you have the silver or the orange? My M6400 was one of my favorite laptops ever.... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 21, 2011 at 12:45 AM

  @Grant Some SSDs ( like the ones OWC offers ) try to compensate for OS X's lack of TRIM support with tricks at the controller level like including a higher capacity drive than what you buy and reserving a large portion of space for improved block management and wear leveling, but OS X's lac... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 20, 2011 at 11:56 PM

  @Grant Hey Grant, just a slight correction. While you can currently install a SSD in a mac and it will *work* well initially, because of a fundamental design flaw in OS X, SSD performance on a mac will degrade astronomically over time. In a nutshell, a simple technology called TRIM ne... read more »

• My First Year As A Mac User On The Apple MacBook Pro

  Posted on Jun 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM

  @Jordan Actually, they don't produce their own hardware, that's just another facet of their false advertising. In reality, Intel makes their OS X processors, at the moment ATI their graphics cards ( was NVidia ), Hitachi and others their hard drives, Samsung and Sony the important par... read more »