Ask Ben Blog Posts by Ben Nadel
This is everything that I have ever written about Ask Ben. Of course, that doesn't mean I'm about to stop any time soon. I'm only getting warmed up!
June 2011
October 2010
March 2010
- Ask Ben: Processing Files With CFThread In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Blocking WSDL Access In A ColdFusion Application
February 2010
December 2009
- Ask Ben: Using jQuery To Act On A Click Event Based On The Target Element
- Ask Ben: Using ColdFusion Components As Return Types, Argument Types, And Property Types
- Ask Ben: Showing Related Form Fields Based On A Given Selection
September 2009
- Ask Ben: Displaying A Blog Teaser (Showing The First N Words)
- Ask Ben: Parsing Nested Lists With A Single Delimiter In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Excluding Script Tag Content From The jQuery .text() Method
- Ask Ben: Creating ColdFusion Templates On The Fly
- Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion
August 2009
- Ask Ben: Extracting And Resizing A ZIP Archive Full Of Images With Coldfusion
- Ask Ben: Keeping Close Track Of Who Is Currently Online
- Ask Ben: Getting The Domain Name From The Referer URL
July 2009
- Ask Ben: Enforcing An SSL (HTTPS) Connection Based On Request
- Ask Ben: Dynamic Web Root And Site URL Calculations In Application.cfc
- Ask Ben: CFImage And Dynamic Image Compression With File Size Limits
- Ask Ben: Building A jQuery And ColdFusion Rating System
June 2009
- Ask Ben: Overriding Core jQuery Methods
- Ask Ben: Detecting When DOM Elements Have Been Removed With jQuery
- Ask Ben: Formatting A Date Span In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Converting Javascript Variables Into ColdFusion Variables
- Ask Ben: Dynamic Form Field Population With jQuery
May 2009
- Ask Ben: Collecting And Relating Sibling XML Nodes In A ColdFusion XML Document
- Ask Ben: Print Part Of A Web Page With jQuery
- Ask Ben: Selecting XML Nodes That Have A Given Parent Node Using XPath
- Ask Ben: Executing ColdFusion Custom Tag Code If First Run Only
April 2009
- Ask Ben: Manually Enforcing Basic HTTP Authorization In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Changing The Root Node In A ColdFusion XML Document
- Ask Ben: Accessing Cached CFCs With AJAX via Remote Proxies
March 2009
- Ask Ben: Using jQuery's triggerHandler() To Skip Default Behaviors
- Ask Ben: Building An AJAX, jQuery, And ColdFusion Powered Application
February 2009
- Ask Ben: Parsing CSV Strings With Javascript Exec() Regular Expression Command
- Ask Ben: Cross-Site AJAX Requests Using jQuery And ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Using Regular Expressions To Parse Data In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Parsing String Data Using Javascript's String Replace() Method
- Ask Ben: Finding XML Nodes That Have Children With The Given Case-Insensitive Phrase
- Finding The Distance Between Latitude / Longitude Locations In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Selecting Random Values Without Repetition In ColdFusion
January 2009
- Ask Ben: Displaying The Next Hidden Element Using jQuery (Update)
- Ask Ben: Sending Emails Based On XML Contact Data In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array In jQuery, One Index Per Click
- Ask Ben: Creating Single Location Logins
- Ask Ben: Securely Pinging One ColdFusion Application From Another
- Ask Ben: Removing Duplicate List Items While Maintaining Original List Order
- Ask Ben: Maintaining Case Of XML Attributes In Manually Created ColdFusion XML Documents
December 2008
- Ask Ben: Handling Optional XML Nodes In WhitePages.com API Response
- Ask Ben: Extracting Data With Regular Expressions vs. ColdFusion List Functions
- Ask Ben: Creating A Fixed-Field-Width Data File With ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Posting XML And File Data With ColdFusion And CFHttp
- Ask Ben: Get Arguments For ColdFusion User Defined Functions
November 2008
- Ask Ben: Checking Domain Name Availability Using ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Sorting A Sub-Tree Of An XML Document Using ColdFusion And XSLT
- Ask Ben: Limiting The Number Of Simultaneous Users For A Given IP Address
- Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array With jQuery
- Ask Ben: Hiding Customer-Specific Image Paths
- Ask Ben: Dynamic Table Names In ColdFusion Queries
- Ask Ben: Flagging Threaded Discussions As New Or Unread
- Ask Ben: Getting The Start And End Dates Of The Previous Week In ColdFusion
October 2008
- Ask Ben: Redirecting Users To A Random Page
- Ask Ben: Dynamically Adding File Upload Fields To A Form Using jQuery
- Ask Ben: Instantiating Nested Java Classes In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: What I Look For In A Potential Employee - Passion
September 2008
- Ask Ben: Optimizing Form Inputs For Numeric Keypad Usage
- Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Unknown Number Of Nested Lists
- Ask Ben: Optimizing Tables For Printing
- Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion
August 2008
- Ask Ben: Displaying And Formatting The Difference Between Two Dates
- Ask Ben: Updating An Excel Document More Than Once With The POI Utility
- Ask Ben: Moving Decimal Places And Formatting Numbers
July 2008
- Ask Ben: How To Build A Home Gym
- Ask Ben: Rendering Javascript Line Breaks
- Ask Ben: Getting Dynamic References To XML Nodes And Setting Text Values In ColdFusion
June 2008
- Ask Ben: Create A New XML Document Based On A Child Node Of An Existing XML Document
- Ask Ben: Splitting And Joining Large Binary Files Using Buffers In ColdFusion
May 2008
- Ask Ben: Dynamically Executing ColdFusion Application.cfc Instances
- Ask Ben: Working With Lists In An Object Oriented Programming Application
March 2008
January 2008
- Ask Ben: Simple Data Caching In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Ending ColdFusion Session When User Closes Browser
- Ask Ben: Delete Values In A Given List Using ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Screen Scraping PowerBall Statistics With ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Querying Groups With Conditional Elements
- Ask Ben: Uploading Multiple Files Using ColdFusion
- Posting File Data Using A Base64 Encoding In ColdFusion
December 2007
- Ask Ben: Breaking An SMS Text Message Up Into Multiple Parts
- Ask Ben: Converting XML Data To ColdFusion Queries
- Ask Ben: Recursive Numeric Pyramid
- Ask Ben: Simple Recursion Example
November 2007
- Ask Ben: Running ColdFusion Asynchronously - Caveman Style
- Ask Ben: Iterating Over A ColdFusion XML Document
- Ask Ben: Zipping Images With ColdFusion 8's CFZip And CFHttp
- Ask Ben: Parsing A Microsoft XML Rowset Into A ColdFusion Query
October 2007
September 2007
- Ask Ben: Pulling SQL Records Based On A List Of IDs
- Ask Ben: Testing For ColdFusion Session Management
August 2007
- Ask Ben: Handling Redirects With ColdFusion CFHttp
- Ask Ben: Handling Errors With ColdFusion CFError
- Ask Ben: Spoofing Referrer With ColdFusion 8 CFImage Tag
- Ask Ben: Printing Shipping Labels With ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Forward ColdFusion Requests To Another Domain
- Ask Ben: Environment-Based Application.cfc Settings
July 2007
- Ask Ben: Finding The Last Monday Of The Month In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Protecting Database Table Names In ColdFusion CFQuery
- Ask Ben: Parsing Microsoft Word XML Into A Useful ColdFusion XML Document
- Ask Ben: Keeping Parallel Sessions Alive In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Getting the Previous Day In ColdFusion, Excluding Saturday And Sunday
- Ask Ben: Upload And Email File Using ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Displaying A Modified Detroit Calendar Schedule
June 2007
- Ask Ben: Passing ColdFusion Structs And Arrays In The URL
- Ask Ben: Hiding / Encrypting ColdFusion CFID And CFTOKEN Values
May 2007
- Ask Ben: Getting The Date Based On The Year And Week In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Grabbing World Of Warcraft Data With ColdFusion And CFHTTP
- Ask Ben: Tracking File Downloads In ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Getting Query String Values In JavaScript
- Ask Ben: Shifting ColdFusion's DayOfWeek() Functionality
- Ask Ben: Truncating The Event Titles In A Calendar Display
- Ask Ben: Adding A Column From Second Query To First Query
- Ask Ben: Limit File Upload Size In ColdFusion
April 2007
- Ask Ben: Displaying A Simple Event Calendar Month With ColdFusion
- Ask Ben: Creating A Simple Wish List / Shopping Cart
- Ask Ben: Limiting The Amount Of Time A Block Of Code Can Run (Attempt II)
- Ask Ben: Limiting The Amount Of Time A Block Of Code Can Run
March 2007
- Ask Ben: ColdFusion Variable Caching And How To Use It (Simple Demo)
- Ask Ben: Getting CSS Class Names From My CSS Data
- Ask Ben: CFTry / CFCatch Issues
- Ask Ben: Displaying A Query Vertically Instead Of Horizontally
February 2007
- Ask Ben: Creating An Archive Folder / File List (Part II)
- Ask Ben: Form Processing Demo With Anti-Spam Features
- Ask Ben: Using POI Utility To Move Excel Data Into A Database
January 2007
- Ask Ben: Cleaning Two Digit Years Using Javascript And Regular Expressions
- Ask Ben: Creating An Archive Folder / File List
December 2006
October 2006
- Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude
- ColdFusion CFQuery Tag To Pull From Two Data Sources (a.k.a. Faking It With Bad Programming)
- Ask Ben: Looping Through The Days In A Month
- Ask Ben: Getting A Random Date From A Date Range In SQL
- Ask Ben: Testing The Existence Of A Query Column In CFScript
- Ask Ben: Iterating Over The Characters In A String
September 2006
August 2006
- Ask Ben: Counting Spaces In A Given String
- Ask Ben: Grabbing Google Results with CFHttp
- Ask Ben: Creating Large Random Strings In Javascript
July 2006
- Ask Ben: Averaging Date/Time Stamps In SQL
- Ask Ben: Selecting Parts of a Date/Time Stamp In SQL
- Ask Ben: Processing A Query In Java
- Ask Ben: Appending Times To Date/Time Objects
- Ask Ben: Javascript String Replace Method
- Ask Ben: Checking The ColdFusion Version
- Ask Ben: CFHttp For Web Mining And Image Hot Linking
- Ask Ben: Comparing Only Times in SQL
- Ask Ben: Converting a Query to an Array