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Ben Nadel

Member since Dec 11, 2008

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Nadel

  • CF_SaveFile Custom Tag In ColdFusion

    Posted on Jul 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM

    @Gregory, Ha ha, great minds think alike I suppose 😉... read more »

  • Closures Do Not Work In Adobe ColdFusion Custom Tags

    Posted on Jul 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM

    I filed bug CF-4227145 in the Adobe Tracker.... read more »

  • Using ColdFusion Custom Tags And Modules In CFWheels

    Posted on Jul 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM

    re: CFSaveContent , that's part of what I'm trying to get around. Ideally, there are some UI elements that I'd like to put in a custom tag instead of a helper function, because I think it just lends well to that form-factor. But, I'm still very much exploring.... read more »

  • Using ColdFusion Custom Tags And Modules In CFWheels

    Posted on Jul 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM

    @Chris, Ha, yeah, I settled on helpers because it was kind of a thing in Wheels already - I thought it might reduce confusion 😜 but yeah, like I said I'm just making this up as a I go. I agree that something more explicitly "wheelsy" would be good, like injectWheelsFunctions(... read more »

  • Creating Service Objects In The CFWheels ColdFusion Framework

    Posted on Jun 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM

    @Chris, Very similar approaches - just a matter of timing mostly. I certainly have built my fair-share of applications that boot-up all the CFCs in the onApplicationStart() event, so that feels very familiar. I know that CFWheels 2.5 -> 3.x is going to be pretty big; but this is my fi... read more »

  • Movie Ranking With Sortable.js And Kendall Tau Distance

    Posted on Jun 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM

    @Chris, Here's what I came up with: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4819-creating-service-objects-in-the-cfwheels-coldfusion-framework.htm In the end, it was just a few lines of code, really. Hopefully this is on the right track.... read more »

  • Movie Ranking With Sortable.js And Kendall Tau Distance

    Posted on Jun 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM

    @Chris, I actually work for Peter Amiri right now :D re: Services, I was thinking about creating a global helper function called service() that would essentially look up a table-less model class, but prefix it with an implicit folder name. Basically, instead of doing: model( &quo... read more »

  • Movie Ranking With Sortable.js And Kendall Tau Distance

    Posted on Jun 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM

    @Chris, How dare you! 😆 as far as Phoenix - it seems pretty solid. This is my first Boostrap project, though, at a new job, in a new business sector, with a new ColdFusion framework. I feel like I'm drinking from 8 fire hoses at once! 🔥 It would actually be great to pick your brain about... read more »

  • My Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon Entry

    Posted on Jun 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM

    @All, I'm excited to announce that I came in 2nd place in the ACF 2025 Hackathon - Mark Takata announced it on LinkedIn . Woot woot! Can't wait to see the other contestant code - will share a link here when I know what it is. @Jeff, All good - any 555 number in the US is "fake&... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Destructuring Complex Queries Into ColdFusion Objects

    Posted on Jun 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM

    @Brendan, Ummmm, because I completely forgot that the group attribute works on the cfloop tag 🤪 Just did a little Google search and apparently I wrote about it back in 2012 : https://www.bennadel.com/blog/2359-coldfusion-10-using-the-group-attribute-with-cfloop-to-group-query-r... read more »

  • Encoding "FFFFFFFF" Into An INT In Adobe ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM

    @Chris, No problem! Glad that it was still in the logs (I'm on the BugSnag free tier, so not sure how long that data sticks around).... read more »

  • Rendering QR Codes With Zxing And ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM

    @All, As a quick follow-up, I had written this code in Lucee CFML and it works as is. But, over the weekend, while working on my Adobe ColdFusion 2025 hackathon, I went to generate a QR code, and it broke. Turns out, ACF doesn't like stuffing FF____ into a Java signed int . As such, I h... read more »

  • Using InputBaseN() To Encode HEX Colors Into An INT In ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM

    @Danilo, That's a really interesting question. And, on point for something I was thinking about over the weekend. When I was working on my ACF 2025 hackathon project, one thing I did was generate a QR Code. And, I used the ColdFusion logo colors as the on/off colors of the QR Code. But, th... read more »

  • Using InputBaseN() To Encode HEX Colors Into An INT In ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM

    @All, As an update, this code actually breaks in Adobe ColdFusion (ACF). For reasons that I don't fully understand, Lucee CFML seems to be able to cast ffffffff to an int , but ACF cannot. At least not without using the "two's complement" approach. I've outlined that here: ... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Destructuring Complex Queries Into ColdFusion Objects

    Posted on Jun 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM

    @Peter, Ha ha, it's all connected. The whole .normalizeQuery() concept (the bulk of this post) was directly inspired by the fact that CFWheels ORM can bring back nested objects from the database. I still haven't really dove into the SQL-generation level under the hood - but, I have to im... read more »

  • Light-Weight DumpModel() Function For CFWheels In ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM

    @Will, Hundo-p, I almost never care about functions. Historically, it's never been a real issue for me since I've never worked with an ORM before, so all of my "things" have just been Structs / Queries. This is the first time I've had a data-access layer return CFCs. The fact tha... read more »

  • Image Paste Bug In Lucee CFML

    Posted on Jun 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM

    @Zac, Good catch on the duplicate() - that will be good to know going forward.... read more »

  • Ask Ben: Destructuring Complex Queries Into ColdFusion Objects

    Posted on Jun 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM

    @Robin, Always a pleasure - I appreciate letting me go down a rabbit hole on this one 😆 And, for the readers' benefit, I just wanted to mention that you had come up with a MSSQL Server STRING_AGG() solution on your end. Which, I think is the equivalent of GROUP_CONCAT() in the MySQL... read more »

  • Rendering QR Codes With Zxing And ColdFusion

    Posted on Jun 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM

    As an aside, at the end I had mentioned a BufferedImage bug in Lucee CFML - turns out, it's more of an imagePaste() bug. I isolated the case for Zac Spitzer: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4811-image-paste-bug-in-lucee-cfml.htm... read more »

  • ColdFusion: Comparison Method Violates Its General Contract

    Posted on Jun 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM

    @Pete, Awww yeah! It takes a village :)... read more »

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