Tim Cunningham
Member since Jul 6, 2010
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Recent Blog Comments By Tim Cunningham
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The Not-So-Dark Art Of Designing Database Indexes: Reflections From An Average Software Engineer
Posted on Jul 5, 2018 at 3:38 PM
@Ben, I know the feeling! Keep in mind when you read my deadlock article, it is old, so the latest versions of MSSQL may have better ways to do it.... read more »
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The Not-So-Dark Art Of Designing Database Indexes: Reflections From An Average Software Engineer
Posted on Jul 5, 2018 at 11:40 AM
Great writeup Ben! I followed the same journey in my career in dealing with Databases. It is kind of a magic feeling when you have database that is constantly getting deadlocks and you clear it up with a couple of indexes. I wrote about my struggles back in 2012: Coping with deadlocks... read more »
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Matthew McCullough And Tim Berglund On Mastering Git - O'Reilly Video Series
Posted on Mar 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Agreed Ben, these videos are really instructive. I bought the first one when it first came out. I didn't know there was a second one till you blogged about it today. So I just purchased it. Thanks for the heads up.... read more »
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ColdFusion 10 - Creating A ColdFusion WebSocket AMD Module For Use With RequireJS
Posted on Mar 12, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Ben, Brilliant! I love the idea of making make the socket life cycle event based using the Application.cfc Brett, not directly. See: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ Point 1 and Point 4. Websockets work on port 80 and port 443, if your idea is to check for new mail in real time, you would ... read more »
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A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks
Posted on May 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Yeah, it is very confusing. I can't tell you the number of times people have told me that the "scheduler is broke" when in fact, they just misunderstood what they told it to do. Glad to see the the scheduler getting some love soon.... read more »
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Phone-Based Realtime Authentication With ColdFusion, Twilio, And Pusher
Posted on Mar 16, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Very cool stuff, you have been doing some great Twilio work lately. It does add an extra layer of security, I guess. Have cell phones become the new "Signet Ring" If someone steals my phone, have they stolen my identity? Still it is better than "read" 500 pages of legal crapol... read more »
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Ode To ColdFusion On Valentine's Day
Posted on Feb 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Ohh, Ben, Ben, Ben, you big valentine plush toy. You finally lost your marbles, eh? Awesome song.... read more »
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Extending The Application.cfc ColdFusion Framework Component With A Relative Path
Posted on Feb 2, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Classic Nadel! What use case are you envisioning for this?... read more »
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The Integer Division Operator In ColdFusion
Posted on Oct 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM
I found this by accident one time by using the wrong slash. Spent hours debugging because I want the decimal places LOL.... read more »
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Saturday Hackathon: Integrating Twitter, oAuth, Twilio, And ColdFusion
Posted on Oct 4, 2010 at 4:18 PM
@Randall when a guy who's blog has got your coding but out of the sling so many times ask for help, you can't help but answer!... read more »
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Saturday Hackathon: Integrating Twitter, oAuth, Twilio, And ColdFusion
Posted on Oct 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM
This is good stuff it got me interested in Speech Recognition again!... read more »
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Reflections On My Client-Side MVC View-Rendering Hackathon
Posted on Aug 29, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Ben, You know what I love about you doing stuff like this? Although I currently have absolutely no need for this currently, in fact I can't even imagine what I would use this for at our company. I still store stuff like this in a part of my brain, labeled "Cool and Possibly Useful info" One day... read more »
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Bidirectional Data Exchange With ColdFusion's CFThread Tag
Posted on Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Won't be the first time I was wrong, nor the last. It will still be interesting to see where this leads, learning about it won't hurt anyone.... read more »
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Bidirectional Data Exchange With ColdFusion's CFThread Tag
Posted on Aug 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM
I am using the threading in conjunction with cfprint, (Adam Lehman thinks we may be the only shop that USES cfprint) and needed a way to to supply some data to the thread already created after it started. I will let you know how it goes.... read more »
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Bidirectional Data Exchange With ColdFusion's CFThread Tag
Posted on Aug 12, 2010 at 9:10 AM
That is awesome! I was hoping something like this was possible. You sir are a mad scientist!... read more »
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Named Arguments In ColdFusion Depend On The Argument Collection, Not The CFArgument Tags
Posted on Aug 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM
So what are you planning on doing? Doing some protoTypes? Method Chaining?... read more »
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From Windows To Mac - A Roller-Coaster Of Emotions
Posted on Aug 6, 2010 at 12:12 PM
He has finally seen the error of his ways and joined the CFBuilder side: <img src=" http://c0021363.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/d0b2_dark_side_apron.jpg ">... read more »
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ColdFusion 9's NEW Operator Can Use Dynamic Class Paths
Posted on Jul 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Thank you! That is great to know.... read more »