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Posted: January 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM by Ben Nadel
Over the last few weeks, an individual in my life has launched a serious campaign of hatred against me. These messages started out with simple feelings of discontent; but, over the last week or two, these feelings have escalated to extreme and very explicit feelings of hatred. I tried ignored all of these messages, hoping that the hatred would sim... read more »
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Posted: January 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM by Ben Nadel
With deadlines and the holidays and wrapping up last year, I hardly had time to think about 2009. But, now that 2008 is behind us and I have a whole new year to look forward to, I can finally concentrate on all the great stuff I have going on. One of the things that I am most excited about is the Hal Helms' Real-World OOP Training event taking p... read more »
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Posted: December 31, 2008 at 12:57 PM by Ben Nadel
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Posted: December 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM by Ben Nadel
We are one day away from January 2009, my month of fitness! So far, I like to think I have taken a number of great steps to help move my fitness revolution along: Designed a workout program to kick off the new year. Purchased protein and vitamins. Scheduled nutritional intake with calendar alerts . Sought out Active Release Technique doctor... read more »
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Posted: December 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM by Ben Nadel
Yesterday, I was trying to determine when to turn on and off day light savings time for a given date calculation. Based on some Googling (cause I don't know this kind of stuff off-hand), it looks like day light savings time in this country goes from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday of November. Because of this, I had to come up with ... read more »
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Posted: December 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM by Ben Nadel
About six or seven years ago, I experienced acute pain in my right knee while squatting on the Smith Machine in my college gym. Although there was no pain when I was standing, I could hardly walk up stairs or get out of bed without wincing; working out was out of the question. I gave it a few days to see if there was any improvement - there was no... read more »
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Posted: December 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM by Ben Nadel
If you can remember this far back, a little over two years ago I stumbled upon the odd fact that in ColdFusion a scheduled task cannot delete itself . As a very hacky work around to this, I came up with a way to use ColdFusion's CFHTTP tag to have the scheduled task launch an asynchronous request that was able to delete the original scheduled tas... read more »
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Posted: December 29, 2008 at 9:13 AM by Ben Nadel
I'm a CF / Flex developer who has been reading some of your XML entries. Thanks, in advance, for always posting great solutions. I have one for you that is driving me crazy, and it's probably minor. I'm developing an app using the whitepages.com api. If I want to collect specific data in each returned record, it breaks in my loop b/c the XML is mi... read more »
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Posted: December 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM by Ben Nadel
For some reason, I have this completely imaginary fear surrounding the scheduling of mundane tasks. I have this made-up belief that certain things should just happen naturally - that I should just know how and when to get them done and that the very act of scheduling them is a symptom of some inherent fault in my personality. Imagine having to sch... read more »
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Posted: December 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM by Ben Nadel
I am not a coffee drinker. In the morning, I have a few cups of Genmaicha - a green tea with brown rice - that has about 80% less caffeine that brewed coffee. In short, I don't get a whole lot of caffeine in my daily routine. And for some reason, I have this imaginary belief that caffeine is not good for you. I have no facts to back up that beli... read more »
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Posted: December 27, 2008 at 10:24 AM by Ben Nadel
The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, finds fictitious wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, 20 years after the height of his professional wrestling career. He is no longer performing in arenas on pay-per-view with a crowd of 80 thousand and another 40 million television viewers; he's an "old, broken down piece of meat" that simply ... read more »
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Posted: December 26, 2008 at 11:16 PM by Ben Nadel
I am not one who enjoys cardio. In my many years of gym experience, I have done very little cardio. And when I say "very little," it's only cause I am too timid to say, "none." However, about two months ago, my right-wrist pain came back a bit. I was so nervous about aggravating it that I stopped going to the gym. During this three week period of ... read more »
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Posted: December 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM by Ben Nadel
I haven't posted anything like this in a while, so I figured I'd post my self up a little female muscle for Christmas :) Nothing like a little inspiration to ring in the new year! ... read more »
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Posted: December 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM by Ben Nadel
I tend to hear a lot of uncertainty about the existence of various ColdFusion scopes during different types of page requests and application-level events. In particular, there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what ColdFusion scopes exist during remote web service calls (external calls made to local ColdFusion components with "remote" access). ... read more »
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Posted: December 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM by Ben Nadel
Do you ever just have an error that is a pain to debug and once you debug it, you feel like total loser for even letting it be an error in the first place? Yeah, well that happened to me yesterday. I was updating a page when I started to get this ColdFusion error: Parameter 1 of function SetVariable, which is now FORM., must be a syntactically ... read more »
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ArrayAppend() Does Not Work With ColdFusion's XML Pseudo-Node-Sets - Posted Dec 22, 2008
MySQL Cannot Convert Value '0000-00-00 00:00:00' From Column XX To TIMESTAMP - Posted Dec 19, 2008
Ask Ben: Splitting Strings In Javascript To Form New Variables - Posted Dec 19, 2008
Kinky Solutions Shop - Holiday Season Beta Launch - Posted Dec 19, 2008
MySQL: The Multi-part Identifier "u.id" Could Not Be Bound - Posted Dec 18, 2008
ColdFusion ARGUMENTS Keys Always Exist, Even When Not Required - Posted Dec 16, 2008
ColdFusion REFind() Cannot Find The Empty String - Posted Dec 16, 2008
Ask Ben: Extracting Data With Regular Expressions vs. ColdFusion List Functions - Posted Dec 12, 2008
Getting ColdFusion To Work With MS SQL Server Express 2005 Databases - Posted Dec 10, 2008
Both MySQL and MS SQL Server Use @@Identity To Report Latest Auto-Incrementing Value - Posted Dec 9, 2008
Getting Header Values From A ColdFusion Request - Posted Dec 9, 2008
Exploring The Cardinality And Selectivity Of SQL Conditions - Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rick Osborne On Database Indexing And SQL Best Practices - Posted Dec 8, 2008
Experimenting With Flat-File ColdFusion CFML Caching - Posted Dec 5, 2008
Ask Ben: Creating A Fixed-Field-Width Data File With ColdFusion - Posted Dec 4, 2008
Ask Ben: Posting XML And File Data With ColdFusion And CFHttp - Posted Dec 4, 2008
The Four Agreements By Don Miguel Ruiz (Thanks Jason Kay) - Posted Dec 4, 2008
Overriding ColdFusion's ArgumentCollection And An Extremely Weird Behavior! - Posted Dec 3, 2008
The Occasional Danger Of ColdFusion's Automatic Data Type Conversion - Posted Dec 2, 2008
Update: Sorting Target XML Node Sets In ColdFusion XML Documents - Posted Dec 2, 2008
Ask Ben: Get Arguments For ColdFusion User Defined Functions - Posted Dec 1, 2008
Interesting Behavior When Swapping Live Nodes In A ColdFusion XML Document - Posted Dec 1, 2008
Random Thought: The Database Bottleneck And Elegance - Posted Nov 29, 2008
Dot-Character Matches In ColdFusion And Java Regular Expressions - Posted Nov 26, 2008
Have A Happy Thanksgiving From Kinky Solutions - Posted Nov 26, 2008
Ask Ben: Checking Domain Name Availability Using ColdFusion - Posted Nov 25, 2008
Sorting XML Nodes Using ColdFusion And XSLT - Posted Nov 24, 2008
Ask Ben: Sorting A Sub-Tree Of An XML Document Using ColdFusion And XSLT - Posted Nov 24, 2008
Ask Ben: Limiting The Number Of Simultaneous Users For A Given IP Address - Posted Nov 21, 2008
Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, And Producing Software - Posted Nov 21, 2008
EtherPad: Potential For Great Peer Debugging - Posted Nov 20, 2008
jQuery Data() Method Associates Data With DOM Elements - SWEET ASS SWEET! - Posted Nov 20, 2008
Javascript Objects Cannot Have Complex Index Values - Posted Nov 20, 2008
Comprehensive ColdFusion Component OnMissingMethod() Testing - Posted Nov 19, 2008
Using jQuery To Leverage The OnChange Method Of Inputs - Posted Nov 18, 2008
Duckman Is My Sherpa - Posted Nov 17, 2008
Ask Ben: Iterating Over An Array With jQuery - Posted Nov 17, 2008
ColdFusion CFParam Regex Validation Tests Whole Value - Posted Nov 14, 2008
Ask Ben: Hiding Customer-Specific Image Paths - Posted Nov 13, 2008
Ask Ben: Dynamic Table Names In ColdFusion Queries - Posted Nov 13, 2008