Jon Dowdle

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• Using A State Machine To Parse Tokenized Data In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM

  @Ben Have you looked at flex (as in free lex, not Adobe's)? The way flex works might give you some more ideas on how to parse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_lexical_analyser... read more »

• Contextual CSS Is Good When You Know Everything About Your Content

  Posted on May 28, 2009 at 7:31 AM

  Good points Ben. I've found that "namespacing" CSS helps quite a bit when developing a generic css framework. For a really good example of this look at the CSS created by the jQueryUI widgets. Also another bit that I find very useful is that items can have multiple classes (and your CSS can match... read more »

• My 1,000th ColdFusion Post - What It Means To Me (And Free Prizes)

  Posted on Jan 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM

  I started using CF way back in 2006. While on my learning journey (which is far from over) , your posts have come in very handy. Thanks for taking the time to write it all down.... read more »

• OOPhoto - Annotating The User Interface Before Designing The Domain Model

  Posted on Jul 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM

  @Ben I agree, Head First was a great help to understanding the patterns. Ironically, I didn't even know about the GoF until I read the Head First book. I still haven't read the entire GoF Book, although I do plan on grabbing a used copy from Amazon. When you say you're not sure how it all fits tog... read more »

• OOPhoto - Annotating The User Interface Before Designing The Domain Model

  Posted on Jul 8, 2008 at 9:23 PM

  Hey Ben, I'm digging your OOP series so far. I'm excited to see how the series of articles progresses, since I've caught the OOP bug as well. For me, the biggest help so far has been learning some of the GoF design patterns. Also, I find your Interface Design method really cool. A project I'm worki... read more »