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Recent Blog Comments By Marco Antonio C Santos

• Win A Free Copy Of The Regular Expression Cookbook 2nd Edition

  Posted on Sep 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM

  @Ben, I received yesterday. Wow, very fast delivery, 4 days from Sebastopol(CA) to Brazil. That book is awesome with several examples in Java, .Net, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Ruby and so on. Great book, really. Thank you Ben!... read more »

• Win A Free Copy Of The Regular Expression Cookbook 2nd Edition

  Posted on Sep 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM

  Thanks Ben. I won!!!!!! I'm excited to take the book in my hands!!!... read more »

• Building Single-Page Applications Using jQuery And ColdFusion With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)

  Posted on Nov 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM

  Looking your code I found parts based in CF 9 version. Nothing is sooooo difficult to translate in CF 8 flavor. Like this in APIResponse.cfc: <cfset var local = {} /> to <cfset local = StructNew() /> Thanks for your time.... read more »

• Building Single-Page Applications Using jQuery And ColdFusion With Ben Nadel (Video Presentation)

  Posted on Nov 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM

  Great job Ben. Do you have any plan to build a CF 8 version? Thnx... read more »

• Running UPDATE And DELETE SQL Statements Using ColdFusion Query Of Queries

  Posted on Oct 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM

  Great!!!!! Convert qoq custom tag to CF 7 syntax could save much souls!!! ;-)... read more »

• Tracking Data Audits In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM

  Hi Ben. Do you know about SQLAudit? SQL Audit( http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlaudit ) is a very very nice application to build SQL table trail audit. We're using in our CF application and we're very happy. With a very easy U... read more »

• REReplace() + Java + Function Pointers = Freakin' Sexy!

  Posted on Jan 16, 2008 at 12:44 PM

  Hi Ben. I'm using(like you) local(cfset local = StructNew()) structure to initialize variables inside functions. Better practices... But I inserted several variables including(instead you) function parameters. What do you think about? Cheers... read more »

• Reading A Microsoft Excel File In ColdFusion Using JExcel API

  Posted on Sep 25, 2007 at 9:18 AM

  Ben, I'm using JExcel for nearly months. It's a nice tool using low amount of data. Today I found a timeout in Excel generation file for ~9000 rows and ~25 columns. Do you have tests for huge amount of data? JExcel scales for you?... read more »

• Poor Interface Design Example

  Posted on Jul 27, 2007 at 11:46 AM

  I agree with you Ben. Cancel button needs to die! Unnecessary in web forms.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Passing ColdFusion Structs And Arrays In The URL

  Posted on Jun 23, 2007 at 6:02 PM

  Hey Ben for this user example could be used get method instead post right? ;-) Form structure will be passed along URL querystring.... read more »

• Using ColdFusion Query Column's Java Methods To Find Values And Test Existence

  Posted on May 21, 2007 at 3:25 PM

  Hi Ben. Good point. Using this Java method searches for case sensitive text inside query, ya? Do you know a method to search using Java to search like SQL LIKE?... read more »

• SQL Server NOLOCK / ROWLOCK Directives To Improve Performance

  Posted on Apr 19, 2007 at 8:58 PM

  Ben, nolock is deprecated in SQL Server 2005( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx ). Like you I'm using <cftransaction isolation="read_uncommitted"> for SELECT clauses but I don't know if t... read more »

• Reading Excel Files With ColdFusion And POI

  Posted on Jan 17, 2007 at 11:03 AM

  Ben, I'll recommend you to know about JExcel Java libraries. This is a great great piece of code. The ntegration with CF is very easy. I'm using JExcel( http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ ) and I'm very happy with your power. Please loo... read more »

• Creating And Streaming Simple Microsoft Excel Files With ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 15, 2006 at 1:54 PM

  Without path class? Mark Mandel Java Loader ( http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=114 ) can help you ya? I'll try here too! ;-)... read more »

• Creating And Streaming Simple Microsoft Excel Files With ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 15, 2006 at 1:04 PM

  Ben, only one tip: this technique doesn't work with OpenOffice documents. OO will try to open with Writer(MS Word similar) application loosing file style. Using JExcel to create an "real" Excel file allow user to open that with OO Calc application.... read more »