Gary Stanton

Recent Blog Comments By Gary Stanton

• Splitting An Array Into Groups In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Apr 22, 2022 at 1:12 PM

  Thanks, yet again Ben! Just wondered how you handle your utilities.cfc ? I have a sprawling one that has been updated over, well, basically my entire career, and is instantiated as a singleton and passed into pretty much all of my other CFCs... but if anyone has a more elegant way, I'm sure... read more »

• Scaling An Image During A Draw Operation Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:44 AM

  It's really cool that you're having the exact same issues as me, about a week before I have them... so by the time I come to do a bit of Googling, your solution is already there for me to peruse... Keep it up! ;)... read more »

• As A Man, I Can Be A Better Example Than I Have Been

  Posted on Mar 25, 2020 at 6:32 PM

  This is a great post dude. I've been reading your blog since the KS days and always took your examples with a pinch of salt; partially because I think the 'real you' that you allude to has always been evident in the tone of the posts themselves, but also because I too was young, male, privil... read more »

• Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13

  Posted on Feb 18, 2020 at 5:41 AM

  This came up in a feed today and I found myself trawling back through the post on the Lucee dev forum - based on that, I can't believe this was ever actually implemented! I've spent the last couple of years getting used to the queryExecute syntax and I'm comfortable using it, but I have... read more »

• JSONWebTokens.cfc - A Small ColdFusion Module For JSON Web Tokens

  Posted on May 11, 2017 at 9:33 AM

  That's yet another beer I owe you... hope you're keeping track. ;)... read more »

• On Staying Focused And Productive In The World Of Programming

  Posted on Jan 19, 2016 at 11:58 AM

  Damn Ben, that was an excellent and inspiring post. I have to say though, the idea that you of all people suffer from 'impostor syndrome'? Sheesh... You should know that you're the reason most of the *rest* of us feel like impostors from time to time! Or to rephrase more positively: Without your ... read more »

• LOCAL Variables Scope Conflicts With ColdFusion Query of Queries

  Posted on Mar 15, 2013 at 7:26 AM

  @Curt Self - Yup... you and the rest of the CF community. Adobe should be paying Ben, I reckon there'd be a lot less CF websites out there without him. @Ben - Thanks for solving yet another issue. Previously I've been copying a Local variable to an unscoped variable in order to use in QOQ, which ju... read more »

• Using CSS Pseudo Elements :before And :after

  Posted on Jan 21, 2013 at 11:50 AM

  Actually, though I'm guilty of doing it myself, I don't think using :before to add an asterisk to a required field is good usability. A screen reader won't be able to pick that asterisk up - unless they've changed recently to pick up CSS 'content' values. Still, they're a great way to add design to... read more »

• Using CSS Pseudo Elements :before And :after

  Posted on Jan 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM

  Lovely, aren't they? ;)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Manually Enforcing Basic HTTP Authorization In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM

  I'm using this, or some variant thereof, to force authentication of a REST API I've been working on using Taffy. It all works perfectly in development and is a very slick solution (thanks as always, Ben!), but when I run it live it seems that the authentication details aren't passed along in the hea... read more »

• Using Four-Sided Positioning In CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

  Posted on Aug 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM

  I can't believe I never thought to try this before...... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: CFThread Part IV - Cross-Page Thread References

  Posted on May 13, 2010 at 7:07 AM

  Thanks for this - it seems like a bit of a hack to store the data in the application scope, but damn if it doesn't work a charm. I had a massive timing issue with posting data to a payment gateway and this technique solved the problem. The thing is, I can't see why this functionality isn't built i... read more »

• Kinky Solutions Shop - Holiday Season Beta Launch

  Posted on Dec 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM

  This is a fantastic concept - I just hope it doesn't work out to be a financial milestone around your neck... Of course, the amount of time this blog has saved me over the last year, we should probably be paying you... ;)... read more »