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• February 06, 2012
• 9:26

  jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I started to talk about chaining asynchronous Validation rules using jQuery Deferred objects . After writing up that post, I thought I might be able to factor-out the core idea into its own jQuery plugin - jQuery.whenSync(). Like the native jQuery.when() method, the jQuery.whenSync() method takes a variable-number of argument ... Read More »
• February 03, 2012
• 9:23

  ColdFusion Supports HTTP Verbs PUT And DELETE (As Well As GET And POST)

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I read an excellent book on building RESTful web services - the REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse . In the book, Masse describes how the various HTTP methods (also known as Verbs) are intended to be used to create, access, update, delete, and augment data within a RESTful web service API. As far as HTTP verbs go, I'm extremely familiar with GET and POST - the two ve ... Read More »
• February 02, 2012
• 8:57

  REST API Design Rulebook By Mark Masse

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I read The REST API Design Rulebook by Mark Masse . I absolutely loved this book! In a world where so many computer science questions are answered with, " It depends ," or, " there's no 'right' answer ," Masse comes through with a book that says, No, these are the rule ... Read More »
• February 01, 2012
• 9:09

  Use A Return Statement When Invoking Callbacks, Especially In A Guard Statement

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In a synchronous processing workflow, the Return statement tends to indicates the end of a given function's execution. In an asynchronous processing workflow, callbacks are more generally used to indicate the desired end of a given function's execution. That said, it is critical that a Return statement is also used in an asynchronous workflow in order to ensure that multiple callbacks are not invoked accidentally. This is a mistake that I have made many times and it always comes back to bite ... Read More »
• January 31, 2012
• 9:34

  Using jQuery Deferred To Chain Validation Rules In An Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Environment

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A while back, I blogged about how client-side validation is changing the structure of server-side validation ; with the client creating user-friendly error messages, the server can finally streamline its validation and data processing using a light-weight, exceptions-based workflow. While I really like this evolutionary step in data handling, I realize ... Read More »
• January 27, 2012
• 17:42

  How I Got Node.js Running On A Linux Micro Instance Using Amazon EC2

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In the past, I've dabbled with Node.js (a server-side JavaScript runtime environment) on my local MacBook Pro. If you know JavaScript, it's not too hard to get something up and running on your local machine. Putting Node.js out into the wild, however, is whole other beast. Not only am I mediocre at managing web servers in general, I happen to know almost nothing about Amaz ... Read More »
• January 26, 2012
• 9:25

  Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I tried to apply some deep thinking to how dependencies should be managed in a modular JavaScript application architecture that is using RequireJS . The conclusion that I came to was that RequireJS should manage and load "definitions" while your application should manage and load "instances." This makes sense since instantiation is the domain of your business ... Read More »
• January 25, 2012
• 9:37

  Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In my journey towards understanding modular JavaScript application architecture, I've been using a lot of RequireJS . The RequireJS framework facilitates the organization and then the subsequent loading of in ... Read More »
• January 23, 2012
• 10:03

  Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I looked at handling keyboard shortcuts in a modular JavaScript application architecture . In that initial exploration, I distributed the handling of keyboard shortcuts across two different modules: a Controller module and the View module that would ultimately be affected by the command. After I was done with the code, however, I was left ... Read More »
• January 20, 2012
• 15:40

  Handling Keyboard Shortcuts Within Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, when using Gmail, I started to think about keyboard shortcuts. Specifically, I started to think about how keyboard shortcuts get routed within a modular JavaScript application architecture. If I have a module that can respond to the keyboard - but, that module is not supposed to "know" about the document at large - how does it listen for key-based events? I can think of two ways: 1) Either the application listens for keys and then directly invokes methods on encapsulated modules; o ... Read More »
• January 19, 2012
• 9:49

  Using An IFrame To Override document.write() Inside A DOM (Document Object Model) Sandbox

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I talked about loading GitHub Gist content after the DOM (Document Object Model) had loaded . This was a somewhat complex operation since the remote Gist Script tag uses document.write() in order to inject the Gist content into the calling document. If document.write() is called after the parent document has been "closed," the write() call will overwrite the ent ... Read More »
• January 18, 2012
• 9:31

  A Book Apart: Responsive Web Design By Ethan Marcotte

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . It was a compelling read that talked about the broader benefits of designing to the constraints of a mobile experience. At the end of his book, he suggested that Ethan Marcotte's book on Responsive Web Design would be a perfect compliment to t ... Read More »
• January 17, 2012
• 9:31

  Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last night, I was listening to the Lately In JavaScript podcast . Among the many items discussed, one topic that was brought up was the emergence of the LET keyword in the next version of ECMAScript (the language on which JavaScript is based). LET allows for block-level variable binding; so, while the VAR keyword allows for function-level variable binding, LET allows variables to be define ... Read More »
• January 16, 2012
• 9:25

  Experimenting With GitHub Gist-Based Code Samples For My Blog

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I started looking around for a new color-coding solution for my blog's syntax highlighting. For the past couple of years, I've been using my own home-grown algorithm; which worked well for ColdFusion but, quite poorly for everything else. After looking at some of the options out there, I settling on trying to integrate GitHub's Gist hosting for my blog. It has an API that I can use to create posts (as part of my Content Management System); and, it has a Script tag that I can use to ... Read More »
• January 13, 2012
• 9:54

  Loading GitHub Gists After The Page Content Has Loaded

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A long time ago, I created a syntax highlighter / color-coder for my blog post code snippets. It was a pain to create; but in the end, it worked pretty well. For ColdFusion code. That was tag based. In recent years, however, I've tried to branch out a bit, playing with other languages, JavaScript in particular. For these languages, my color coding sucks. As such, I've been on the hunt for other color coding options. There's a ton of methods out there; but, I need one that can seamlessly integ ... Read More »
• January 11, 2012
• 10:02

  Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As of now, all of my experimentation with modular JavaScript application architecture has been exclusive to client-side code. That is, it involves Views and Controllers, but no real sense of any Model that is tied to a persistent data store. As I've started to think about experimenting with the Model facet of client-side MVC (Model-View-Contr ... Read More »
• January 10, 2012
• 9:19

  Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A little while back, I started looking at RequireJS as away to organize and modularize my JavaScript code . And, while I am still getting my feet wet in modular JavaScript web application development, I can tell you that I have really enjoyed using RequireJS - and, that I plan to continue to integrate it into my development process. The asynch ... Read More »
• January 09, 2012
• 8:49

  Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I'm relatively new to the Mac OSX operating system . And, as far as getting around on the command-line, I'm even more of a novice. I can't remember where I saw this, but recently, I saw a fellow programmer execute a set of command-line scripts from a file. What was so interesting to me about this, however, was that the file was invoked like a standard executable file. I thin ... Read More »
• January 06, 2012
• 8:47

  Creating A Fixed-Length Queue In JavaScript Using Arrays

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The other day, I was laying in bed thinking about JavaScript Arrays. Specifically, I was thinking about an Array that would have a fixed length - something that would maintain a maximum length, even as new items were pushed onto the stack. I had envisioned creating some sort of container for "recent" data value (ex. last 50 messages). As a fun thought experiment, I wanted to see if I could ... Read More »
• January 05, 2012
• 8:29

  Disabling Auto-Correct And Auto-Capitalize Features On iPhone Inputs

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . In his book, Wroblewski mentioned that in order to create the most usable experience on a mobile device, one should probably turn off the auto-correction and auto-capitalization features for input fields that don't require them. This way, users don't have to worry about their email addresses being capitalized or their names ... Read More »
• January 04, 2012
• 8:48

  What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the new year's holiday weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . In the book, Wroblewski talks about leveraging the contraints of mobile development in order to think more holistically and effectively about your users and your software. In his explanation, he suggests using CSS effects instead of images wherever possible in order to reduce the number of HTTP requests th ... Read More »
• January 03, 2012
• 9:32

  A Book Apart: Mobile First By Luke Wroblewski

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As a web applications developer, I know that people use mobile devices to access my work; but, unfortunately, this fact is still a bit of an afterthought in my life. Typically, I create one version of software: desktop. And, since most smart phones can view this version with zooming and panning, I tend to concentrate on desktop iteration rather than mobile development. After reading Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski , ... Read More »
• December 30, 2011
• 14:48

  Experimenting With A JavaScript Gateway To A Remote ColdFusion Persistence API

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I was really trying to dig into modular JavaScript application architecture and development using RequireJS . In that exploration, I had an application that had Views and Controllers, but no real sense of a Model. To continue the exploration of JavaScript modularity, I wanted to play around with something that included a Model - one ... Read More »
• December 29, 2011
• 9:30

  How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  It used to be (and often times, still is) that when a user submitted a form in a web application, the entire page would be submitted to the server where it would be validated. Then, the form would either be re-rendered with user-friendly error messages; or, the user would be forwarded on to a "success" page. With the explosive growth of JavaScript and DOM (Document Object Model) manipulation libraries, however, we now see many web applications using both client-side validation for an improved ... Read More »
• December 27, 2011
• 9:06

  Preventing Links In Standalone iPhone Applications From Opening In Mobile Safari

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  When developing web applications for the iPhone, one of the cool things that you can do is save your web application to the "home screen" of your phone. This creates a shortcut to your web application which will launch the site in "standalone mode" or "app mode". When your web application is being viewed in standalone mode, anchor tags (ie. links) open up in the mobile Safari browser which jumps you out of your standalone application. I thought this was just an irritating fact of life. But th ... Read More »
• December 23, 2011
• 11:54

  InVision - Front-End JavaScript Developer Positions

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  InVision is a user experience (UX) prototyping tool and collaboration platform that's working to change the way that the web thinks about software design. In the few short months since our launch we've seen over 15K sign-ups , copious amounts of great press, and an almost non-stop flow of ... Read More »
• December 22, 2011
• 8:26

  Creating A JavaScript Shim For Array Unshift() Method

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  If you write JavaScript, chances are good that you're familiar with the push() and pop() methods of an Array . These methods add and remove items to and from the end of an array, respectively. You might, however, not be as familiar with the unshift() and shift ... Read More »
• December 20, 2011
• 8:37

  For Pay: I Need A Few Hours Consulting On Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I love JavaScript! I love it. Only, my understanding of JavaScript architecture is a bit old-school. For the last few months, I've been trying hard to wrap my head around taking that understanding into the modern era with modular, decoupled, asynchronously loaded code. Since I've discovered RequireJS , I've been trying hard to think about deco ... Read More »
• December 19, 2011
• 9:56

  Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I spent a few hours trying to wrap my head around some modular JavaScript application development. In order to keep my modules decoupled from one another, I tried to make appropriate use of the publish / subscribe method of communication. One problem that I ran into, however, was that I was using jQuery's proxy() method to bind callbacks to contexts . ... Read More »
• December 14, 2011
• 13:02

  EmailYak.cfc - A ColdFusion Wrapper For The Email Yak API

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I started looking at the Email Yak API for creating bidirectional email communication between your web application and your users . In such a workflow, your users communicate with Email Yak using their native email client (GMail, Hotmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook, etc.); your web application communicates with Email Yak usin ... Read More »
• December 12, 2011
• 9:58

  Scalable And Modular Architecture For CSS (SMACSS) By Jon Snook

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, has made formatting our web content much easier than it used to be. And while it is relatively simple to get up and running with CSS, it is a technology that appears to be a bit more art than science. As our applications grow in size and complexity, keeping rules clean, organized, siloed, and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) can become a bit of a Herculean task. People like ... Read More »
• December 09, 2011
• 8:28

  Creating An Image Thumbnail Service Using Email Yak Attachments And ColdFusion

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I started looking at the Email Yak SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for creating bidirectional email communication in web applications . I was really excited by the way email complexities were nicely abstracted behind a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) API which allowed for seamless communication between a user's email client ... Read More »
• December 07, 2011
• 9:38

  Using Email Yak To Provide Bidirectional Email Communication In Your Web Applications

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I started looking at a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform called Email Yak . Email Yak provides your web application with an SMTP proxy and JSON API that allows you to create bidirectional email-based communication between your web application and your end users. You communicate with Email Yak using HTTP requests, web hooks, and JSON; your users communicate with Email Yak using standard email protocols. Essentially, Email Yak ... Read More »
• December 05, 2011
• 10:01

  A Book Apart: Designing For Emotion By Aarron Walter

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I read Designing For Emotion by Aarron Walter - one of the "brief books for people who make websites" from the "A Book Apart" library. Aarron Walter, if you don't know the name, is the lead user experience designer behind the MailChimp web application. And, if you don't know him, you are more than likely familiar with Freddie Von Chippenheimer IV - the MailChimp mascot with the blue hat th ... Read More »
• December 01, 2011
• 9:51

  Extending JavaScript Arrays While Keeping Native Bracket-Notation Functionality

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In JavaScript, we can sub-class native data types by extending the native prototypes. This works perfectly with the native String object ; but, when it comes to native Arrays, things don't work quite so nicely. If we extend the Array prototype, we inherit the native array functions; but, we no longer have the ability to use bracket notation to set and get indexe ... Read More »
• November 30, 2011
• 10:07

  Invoking A Native JavaScript Constructor Using Call() Or Apply()

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  This morning, I was working on some JavaScript code in which I wanted to create a proxy to a native JavaScript constructor (ex. Array, String). In the past, I've often invoked super-class constructors using JavaScript's call() or apply() method . But, in those cases, I had existing sub-class instances that would act as the target context (ie. "this"). ... Read More »
• November 28, 2011
• 8:27

  XML Posts Without A UTF-8 Encoding May Lead To 400 Bad Request Errors

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, Ryan Jeffords and I spent a solid hour debugging some API interactions between ColdFusion and Recurly . The API requests required the posting of XML content using CFHTTP and CFHTTPParam . The API calls worked 99% of the time; however, every now and then, one would ... Read More »
• November 21, 2011
• 10:07

  Using jQuery's Pipe() Method To Chain Asynchronous Validation Requests

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The other day, I looked at using Stripe.com to accept PCI-compliant online payments without a merchant account . In that experiment, I performed a cross-domain AJAX request to validate the credit card (using Stripe.com's API) followed by a local AJAX request to validate the rest of the form data. To do this, I put the launch of the second A ... Read More »
• November 17, 2011
• 10:08

  My First Look At The RequireJS Build Optimizer For Node.js

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the last few weeks, I've started to look into the RequireJS asynchronous loader and JavaScript dependency management system . Right off the bat, the facilitated modularity and code organization provided by RequireJS feels like a really solid approach to thick-client application development. With the increased modularity, however, we end u ... Read More »
• November 16, 2011
• 9:53

  Using jQuery As A Named Module In RequireJS

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  With the release of jQuery 1.7, there's been some amorphous buzz about the support between AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) script loaders and the jQuery library. I say, "amorphous," because I simply don't understand what that support entails. While reading Wilson Page's post on loading AMD modules from a remote CDN (Content Delivery Network), however, I started to see that ... Read More »
• November 15, 2011
• 9:55

  Accepting PCI-Compliant Payments Without A Merchant Account Using Stripe And ColdFusion

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  This week, I started looking at simple solutions for collecting online payments without the hassle of obtaining a merchant account. I have a couple of personal projects in mind and I wanted to find a way to charge people a nominal amount of money with ease while adhering to proper PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards. When I asked for suggestions on Twitter , a good number of people suggested that I check ... Read More »
• November 11, 2011
• 8:41

  Writing A RequireJS Plugin To Load Remote jQuery Templates

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the past couple of weeks, I've started looking into RequireJS for asynchronous script loading and JavaScript dependency management . While I don't have a lot of experience with such things, there is definitely something about RequireJS that feels really good. All the stuff that I've tried so far just seems to work. In my last post, I ... Read More »
• November 08, 2011
• 9:08

  Using java.util.Collections To Shuffle A ColdFusion Query Column Corrupts Column Values

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The other day, I wanted to see if I could use the java.util.Collections class to help shuffle the values in a ColdFusion query. As I've blogged about before, the Collections class presents a shuffle() method which can be used to randomly sort Java collections (ie. ColdFusion arrays) . And, since ColdFusion query objects represent columns as collections, I wanted to see ... Read More »
• November 04, 2011
• 10:30

  Keeping Modules Decoupled Using Signals And Mediators

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Lately, I've been struggling to wrap my head around the architecture of event-driven JavaScript applications . While I do love the idea of an evented system, I am finding it harder to see the benefit of using events for bi-directional communication. To me, it seems more natural to observe events for the purpose of explicitly invoking subsequent functio ... Read More »
• November 02, 2011
• 10:28

  Global Events vs. Entity-Bound Events In JavaScript Application Architecture

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The more I try to learn about JavaScript application development, the more I tend to think that absolute decoupling is a myth. I know I'm quite inexperienced when it comes to building non-trivial, thick-client applications; but, the idea of being able to simply "assemble" an app using recycled components strikes me as being very suspect. While this may work for inconsequential apps, I can't wrap my head around this working for anything with a complex feature-set. A lot of this frustrat ... Read More »
• November 01, 2011
• 14:26

  jQuery Appends Multiple Elements Using Efficient Document Fragments

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Earlier today, in my blog post on using jQuery's $.map() method, I talked about creating a buffer of detached DOM (Document Object Model) nodes . The value-add behind that post was the fact that the DOM nodes remained detached as long as possible; this allows them to be created and configured without incurring the cost of DOM rendering and repainting. As ... Read More »
• 10:13

  Using jQuery's $.map() Method To Convert Data Into Detached DOM Node Buffers

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the appendEach() jQuery plugin that allows you to append an array of jQuery objects to the rendered DOM tree . This plugin was created so that detached DOM (Document Object Model) nodes could be created and configured, en masse, without incurring the performance cost of visual rendering. At the heart of the plugin was a the $.map() method wh ... Read More »
• October 31, 2011
• 11:07

  The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die By John Izzo

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A while back, I read The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before Your Die by John Izzo . I believe it was recommended to me by a blog reader; but I cannot for the life of me find the recommendation, so sorry for not thanking you. In this book, Dr. John Izzo distills the critical and commonly held b ... Read More »
• 10:05

  ColdFusion ORM: A Guide To Developing Applications Using ColdFusion ORM By John Whish

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I finally got to read ColdFusion ORM: A Guide to Developing Applications Using ColdFusion ORM by John Whish . With the release of ColdFusion 9, Adobe has fully integrated Hibernate - the industry leader in Object Relational Mapping (ORM) - into the core language. With the release of the ColdFusion updater - 9.0.1 - a number of critical differences ... Read More »
• October 28, 2011
• 10:57

  Using the Text Plugin With RequireJS To Load Remote HTML Templates

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Earlier this week, I started looking into the RequireJS library as a way to manage JavaScript dependencies and modular application design . In addition to the core functionality of loading modules, RequireJS also has a plugin architecture that enables the loading of non-JavaScript data types. The "Text" plugin, for example, allows text files t ... Read More »
• October 27, 2011
• 10:27

  Using One Object Per Event Type With Publish And Subscribe (Pub/Sub)

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I was reading an interesting article by Miller Medeiros that compared different types of publish and subscribe mechanisms . Publish and Subscribe (Pub/Sub) is nothing new - if you use jQuery at all, you've probably been using Pub/Sub a lot (even without thinking about it). In the ar ... Read More »
• October 26, 2011
• 13:50

  Using RequireJS For Asynchronous Script Loading And JavaScript Dependency Management

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Traditionally, when I've needed to load multiple JavaScript files into an application, I've used multiple Script tags. This works, but is less than optimal when it comes to load times and organization. A while back, I experimented with LABjs for more efficient asynchronous script loading . LABjs has a dead-simple API and allows for good dependency management. As a fu ... Read More »
• October 24, 2011
• 10:23

  jQuery Can Provide Queue-Based Promise Objects

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I was looking up some Promise information in the jQuery API when I came across the .promise() fn-method. While I have worked with promises in the context of AJAX and explicit Deferred objects, it seems that jQuery provides implicit promise functionality around their queues and dequeuing functionality . This allows for promise objects to be returned for animations ... Read More »
• October 19, 2011
• 11:00

  The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week Five

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Coming to the end of week five of Love at the School of Practical Philosophy, I don't have too much to reflect on as far as interpersonal relationships go. But, I have been thinking a great deal about work and about loving my own life. I have had a lot on my mind these days; and, in the wake of Steve Jobs' death, something that he said in his Standford University commencement speech has been stuck like a bur to my mental socks. For the past 33 years, I have looked in ... Read More »
• October 12, 2011
• 17:54

  Getting Contact, Photos, And Social Media Information Using FullContact.com And An Email Address

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As the web becomes more socially-focused, it's becoming more important to give our software a social vibe. Often times, this can be accomplished by simply accenting the user interface with photos. Unfortunately, when it comes to users, the only substantial piece of information that we have [in the beginning] is the user's email address. Luckily, companies like FullContact are attacking this problem with intense focus. FullContact attempts ... Read More »
• 10:26

  The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week Four

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The fourth week of Love at the School of Practical Philosophy has been very busy and mentally trying for me. As such, I haven't had too much time to think. Or rather, I simply haven't made it a top priority. This is a shame as this week's practices happen to be ones for which I am a big proponent. This week, we had to practice gratitude - thinking about all the things for which we are grateful. We also had to practice reflection - thinking about all the points during the day in which the expr ... Read More »
• October 11, 2011
• 11:01

  Creating A Timer (Timeout) Using jQuery Deferred Objects

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  When I talk about using jQuery's new Deferred objects in the context of AJAX, people will often ask my why I don't just use the "success" and "error" callbacks in the AJAX configuration hash. To this, I can only say that I find the deferred / promise aspects create more readable and enjoyable code. Along the same lines, I wanted to see if I could create a Deferred wrapper for the native JavaScript timeout functions (setTimeout() and clearTimeout()). While this does add a bit of new functional ... Read More »
• October 10, 2011
• 10:21

  Creating A Private Scope By Extending The Public THIS Scope In JavaScript

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In JavaScript, we create objects. These objects don't really have a sense of public and private variables (in a classical object-oriented sense); but, thanks to the lexical binding of Closures in JavaScript , we can finagle private variables t ... Read More »
• October 07, 2011
• 10:42

  Appending An Array Of jQuery Objects To The DOM

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Often times, when I am creating HTML in a thick-client application, I am merging the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data returned from an AJAX call with a client-side template. The resultant DOM (Document Object Model) nodes are then initialized and appended to the visible document tree. As an intermediary step in this process, I am typically creating a collection of jQuery objects, each of which represents a newly formed DOM node. The problem with this approach, however, is that the jQuer ... Read More »
• October 06, 2011
• 14:12

  Decoding Morse Code With JavaScript

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A couple of weekends ago, I was down in North Carolina for the NCDevCon conference. At the conference, I got into a good conversation with Dan Skaggs about Ham Radios and Morse Code. I know nothing about Morse Code (or Ham radios for that matter); but, I thought it would be a fun little exercise to try and build a Morse Code demo in JavaScript. There's really no point to this post other than sharing with you what I did this morning bef ... Read More »
• October 05, 2011
• 10:58

  The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week Three

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In week three of Love at the School of Practical Philosophy, our practice has been to "meet people as if for the first time." This means that when we meet people that we already know, we are supposed to leave all of our bagage and our history behind us; we need to come to the conversation with an open mind and an open heart. Now, this doesn't mean forgetting or dismissing the past; it simply means granting yourself the opportunity to be the person that you truly want to be. A while back ... Read More »
• October 04, 2011
• 10:45

  Changing The Execution Context Of JavaScript Functions Using Call() And Apply()

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, as I writing about changing the execution context of self-executing functions in JavaScript , I realized that I didn't have a good general post on what execution context was or how it can be changed. I've talked about it a number of times, but never in a really cohesive way. In JavaScript, all function bodies have access to the "this ... Read More »
• October 03, 2011
• 10:08

  Changing The Execution Context Of Your Self-Executing Function Blocks In JavaScript

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the weekend, I attended the jQuery Conference 2011 up in Boston. In the CoffeeScript presentation by Mark Bates , I saw something very interesting. When he showed us how the CoffeeScript was compiled down into JavaScript, I saw the conversion using an approach that I had never seen before: the compiler was explicitly setting the context of self-executing function blocks. Self-executing function blocks (or IIFEs: immediately-inv ... Read More »
• September 28, 2011
• 11:00

  Use jQuery's SlideDown() With Fixed-Width Elements To Prevent Jumping

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  From what I have seen, the slideDown() method is perhaps one of the most used methods in jQuery. While the Sizzle library and the general jQuery API have revolutionized DOM access and manipulation, the slideDown() method has, in one stroke, allowed programmers to create a richer, more natural experience for their end users. Where user interfaces (UIs) used to feel mechanical, effects like the slideDown() function have helped them to feel "touchable" and user friendly. When you don't know how ... Read More »
• September 27, 2011
• 8:58

  The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week Two

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As the second week of my course on Love at the School of Practical Philosophy has come to a close, I have been thinking a lot about Self. Pretty much everything that we do here at school is geared towards gaining a better understanding of Self and about the wisdom that we have available to us. As such, I've started to think of the term, "selfless," as being somewhat ironic. We often refer to selfless acts as being virtuous. However, if we act without regard to our self, it appears that we are ... Read More »
• September 26, 2011
• 10:34

  Storing And Retrieving Global Dates And Times In The Database

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Over the last week, I've been diving deeply into the concept of global times and Daylight Saving Time (DST), exploring the Java Timezone and Calendar classes and seeing how date/time values can be translated around the globe ... Read More »
• September 23, 2011
• 10:54

  Converting Dates Across Time Zones Using ColdFusion And Java

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  This week has been a very immersive week in world clocks, time zones, and the absurdly inconsistent rules of Daylight Saving Time (DST). After several days of complete befuddlement, I was finally able to gain some understanding of how all this timezone logic fits together. Yesterday, I talked about using Java's java.util.TimeZone and java.util.GregorianCalendar classes to help ... Read More »
• September 22, 2011
• 10:58

  Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I'm working on a personal project that was going to have some Twilio-powered mobile integration. This feature depended on being able to send an SMS text message to a user at a given time each day. While this might sound simple, it is actually quite a complex matter. See, my server's 9PM is probably not your 9PM. As such, I need to calculate your time based on my server's time and our individual time zones. Throw Daylight Savings Time (DST) into the mix and suddenly, this seemingly simple conc ... Read More »
• September 16, 2011
• 10:49

  Using Google's Targeted Site Search Protocol To Search My Site

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The search form on my site (top-right at the time of this writing) used to display Google Search results directly within the context of my site. At one time, it did this with an embedded IFrame widget. Then, for a while, I was using an XML API. Then, a few months ago, I got an email from Google explaining that the particular service I was using would no longer be offered and would soon be shut down. I never did anything about it and then my site search suddenly stopped working a few weeks ago ... Read More »
• September 15, 2011
• 11:04

  The School Of Practical Philosophy: Love - Week One

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last night, I started "Love", which is course #3 at the School of Practice Philosophy. If you've followed this blog for a while, you'll probably know that I am a huge fan of love and that I put a great deal of time into reflecting upon my own thoughts, feelings, and experiences of it . In fact, I would go so far as say that ... Read More »
• September 14, 2011
• 11:03

  Who Controls The Data When Modules Don't Know The Whole Story

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about modules in JavaScript. As my client-side code has become much more complex than it used to be, I'm seeing that proper JavaScript application architecture is critically important. As I've tried to decouple my modules using encapsulated code and pub/sub (publish and subscribe) communication, however, I'm finding that I don't really know what I'm doing; this is especially true, when modules are displaying data that doesn't necessarily represent the ... Read More »
• September 09, 2011
• 10:54

  Using jQuery's Pipe() Method To Change Deferred Resolution

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I've really grown to love the Deferred functionality added in jQuery 1.5. Not only does it allow for new kinds of functionality, it also allows existing success and error handlers to be bound in an easier-to-understand, less condensed format. One thing that I never really understood, however, was the pipe() method, added in jQuery 1.6. While I sort of understand the concepts of Decoration and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), I was never able to connect that to the use of Deferreds. Then, it ... Read More »
• September 08, 2011
• 11:00

  POST Streaming Multi-Part Form Data From ColdFusion Using Java And Formidable.js

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Lately, I've been playing around with the idea of streaming form posts from a ColdFusion server such that the entire contents of the form post would not have to be buffered in the local memory at any given time. I was able to post file-only content from one ColdFusion server to another; but, when it came to ... Read More »
• September 07, 2011
• 9:34

  Replacing Text Nodes With jQuery

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  This morning on Twitter, I came across a Tweet from Robert Rawlins (aka. @SirRawlins ) asking about replacing text values within a DOM element. He had a situation in which a node contained mixed children; that is, the node contained both element nodes (type 1) and text nodes (type 3). What he wanted to do was replace one of the text nodes, leaving th ... Read More »
• September 06, 2011
• 10:50

  Apparently ColdFusion Cannot Handle Chunked Multi-Part Form Data

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Last week, I was exploring the use of the Java's java.net.HttpURLConnection class as a means to stream file data in a form POST without having to buffer the entire file in memory prior to transfer. This worked fine when the entire post consisted of the file data; but, would the same approach work with multi-part form data (ie. form data that consists of name-va ... Read More »
• September 02, 2011
• 11:08

  POST Streaming Upload Data From ColdFusion Using Java And Node.js

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I can't find the email, but a while back, someone asked me about POSTing very large files with ColdFusion's CFHTTP and CFHTTPParam tags. This individual was running out of memory because ColdFusion apparently needed to load the entire file into the local RAM before posting it up to the target server. To get around this issue, I started poking into the Java layer (beneath the ColdFusion surface) and found the java.net.HttpURLConnection class. This Java class allows a URL connection to be held ... Read More »
• August 31, 2011
• 10:02

  The Most Interesting Man Alive On ColdFusion

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
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• August 30, 2011
• 11:15

  A Billion Wicked Thoughts By Ogi Ogas And Sai Gaddam

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Did you know that Tranny porn is targeted at straight men? Did you know that gay men typically prefer straight male porn? Did you know that a "squick" is the stuff that's too kinky to be called a "kink"? Did you know that women get really turned on by watching two men make-out? I don't know about you, but I didn't know a lot of this stuff; not until I read ... Read More »
• 10:03

  Finding And Plotting Room Requirements For Concurrent Event Sessions

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A while back, I made a small website called www.UXMovies.com . The idea of the site was simple - you put in a Google Movies page and UXMovies.com will plot the movies on a sort-of Gantt chart for a visual understanding of when movies start and end in relationship to each other. The complicated thing about this task was that I only had the showtimes of each movie - I didn't know how many theaters were being used for screening. As such, I ha ... Read More »
• August 25, 2011
• 10:10

  Win A Copy Of JavaScript Enlightenment By Cody Lindley

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A few weeks ago, I blogged about Cody Lindley's new book, JavaScript Enlightenment . Like his previous book - jQuery Enlightenment - Lindley's new book makes use of technical thin-slicing - preferring simple code samples over prose when it comes to exploring the JavaScript language. ... Read More »
• August 24, 2011
• 11:00

  Experimenting With A Stateful Class For Stateful User Interface (UI) Widgets

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  After going back and forth with Dan G. Switzer, II in the comments of my blog post on Finite State Machines and UI widgets , I wanted to try and factor out the "stateful" aspects of my code into some sort of reusable, lightweight framework. Furthermore, I wanted to create a way for states to have acce ... Read More »
• August 22, 2011
• 9:41

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

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Typically, when it comes to positioning elements with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I am used to using two-sided positioning; that is, I define two of the four offsets on a given element. This is most often "top" and "left"; but, I make frequent use of the "bottom" and "right" offsets as well. Recently, however, as I was going through some of the code that Ryan Jeffords was working on, I noticed that some of his UI (User Interface) elemen ... Read More »
• August 19, 2011
• 10:06

  Performance Of LEFT OUTER JOIN Insert vs. INNER JOIN Delete Statement

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  When it comes to database queries, the only kind of JOIN that I like to perform with SQL is an INNER JOIN. They are wicked fast and always satisfying. Any time that I have to figure out which records don't have relationships, it means that I have to do a LEFT OUTER JOIN; this is always depressing and often slow and I try to avoid it as much as possible. That's why I ended up trying something a bit counterintuitive the other day. I was in a situation where I needed to populate one table (T) wi ... Read More »
• August 18, 2011
• 11:11

  Treating Complex User Interface (UI) Widgets Like Finite State Machines

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I looked at treating user interface (UI) widgets like Finite State Machines . In a simple widget, this is rather straightforward as the state of the widget easily defines the morphology of the user interface. In a more complex user interface widget, however, the relationship between the states of the widget and the morphology of its UI is not quite so "fi ... Read More »
• August 17, 2011
• 11:09

  Treating User Interface (UI) Widgets Like Finite State Machines

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Lately, I've been thinking a lot about JavaScript-heavy, thick-client applications and Finite State Machines . I've seen the way that Finite State Machines can take a large, complex tasks and break it down into smaller, much more manageable states. I've even tried to apply this kind of mentality to ... Read More »
• August 16, 2011
• 11:01

  Parsing CSV Data With An Input Stream And A Finite State Machine

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  I've talked about parsing CSV (Comma Separated Value) data on this blog a number of times, both in ColdFusion and in JavaScript . Every now and then, someone brings up the fact that ColdFusion may run out of memory when parsi ... Read More »
• August 10, 2011
• 9:49

  Creating Repeated Sequences With The Modulus (MOD) Operator

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  This almost doesn't warrant its own post; but, it seems to be one of those small factoids that I can't keep in my head without writing it down. And so, a quick post to demonstrate creating repeated sequences with the modulus operator (MOD or %). To be fair, the modulus operator already creates repeated sequences ; but, those sequences end with a zero. This is perfect for when ... Read More »
• August 09, 2011
• 10:13

  Jason Dean Tells Me To Use AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) Encryption

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  What I know about encryption can be summed up as: encrypt(), decrypt(), and hash(). Meaning, I know how to use encryption functions and create one-way hashes; but, my understanding of cryptography doesn't go much deeper than that. On this blog, I have made good use of the ColdFusion encryption functions; but, as you can see from previous posts, I tend to rely on the default ColdFusion algorithm - CFMX_COMPAT. Jason Dean - cryptography stud ... Read More »
• August 08, 2011
• 19:04

  Sometimes, I Feel Like A Man With No Identity

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A long time ago, I watched a movie in which a husband was arguing with his wife. She was trying to stop him from doing something. And, to her objections, he pleaded desperately, " Please - I have to do this; as a man, I need to do this. " I can't remember what movie it was; but, I believe that we can all relate to this sentiment in some form. At the end of the day, we all have our own identity - we all have somebody that we want to be. And, when that identity gets stripped from us, it ... Read More »
• August 05, 2011
• 11:04

  Storing Your ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks In The Database

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As I've talked about before, I am not the biggest fan of ColdFusion scheduled tasks. Or rather, I love the idea of ColdFusion scheduled tasks; but, I don't like managing them in the ColdFusion Administrator. Furthermore, some tasks require a more complex "interval" than the options provided in the task manager. As such, I've gotten into the habit of moving my scheduled tasks from the ColdFusion administrator into the database. Typically, I have a single scheduled tasks that runs about every 5 ... Read More »
• August 04, 2011
• 10:54

  Empty SRC And URL() Values Can Cause Duplicate Page Requests

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Yesterday, I spent a good four hours trying to track down a super frustrating problem. I had a page that needed some additional security features added to it. Basically, I wanted to make sure that once the given page was loaded, only one link on said page could be used. To do this, I stored a random value in the user's session. Then, I would pass that value through each link and compare it to the stored session value. On each target link, I would then clear the random session value, rendering ... Read More »
• August 02, 2011
• 10:34

  jQuery Plugin: triggerHandlers() - To Trigger Handlers On All Selected Elements

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  jQuery has a core method called trigger(). This method will trigger the given event on the selected elements and then propagate the event up the DOM before activating the default behavior (assuming it wasn't explicitly prevented somewhere in the bubbling phase). If you don't want to involve the bubbling and default behavior, jQuery also provides the method, triggerHa ... Read More »
• August 01, 2011
• 19:22

  How I Got Started In ColdFusion

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  In high-school, I took a class in QBasic. And it was awesome - super awesome!! The moment I turned a line of code into a visual screen element, I was hooked. I knew from that very moment that computer programming was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. And, when I started applying for colleges shortly thereafter, I made sure to declared my major as "Computer Science". In these applications, I always applied to the Liberal Arts colleges - my mom wanted me to have a well-rounded ... Read More »
• July 29, 2011
• 13:40

  Using State Change To Bind And Unbind Event Handlers vs. Handler Branching

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Recently, I have been working on an old project that has some fairly complex JavaScript interactions. One thing that I am noticing is that my event handlers are getting very complex. When a user clicks on certain elements, the event handler that listens for that "click" event may perform up to 5 or 6 logic checks before deciding how to react to said click event. This is a pain and is becoming quite a problem in terms of maintenance. If I could go back and write this all over again, I would pr ... Read More »
• July 28, 2011
• 11:02

  Understanding The Complex And Circular Relationships Between Objects In JavaScript

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  A couple of months ago, when reading JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford , I have to admit that there was some code discussed in the book that really threw my brain through a loop. Specifically, I had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the ripple effect that took place when methods were added to the Function() prototype. The relationship between JavaScript object ... Read More »
• July 26, 2011
• 10:42

  JavaScript Enlightenment By Cody Lindley

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  Two years ago, I read jQuery Enlightenment by Cody Lindley . I vividly remember being very impressed with how much information Cody had gotten across to the reader with such a concise book. Cody's explanatory style favors simple code over prose, leaving the reader with bite-sized examples that he or she can easily "grok" (as Cody might p ... Read More »
• July 25, 2011
• 10:46

  Using The LAB.js Script Loader With jQuery's DOM-Ready Event

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As I talked about last week, LAB.js is an asynchronous JavaScript loader that loads and executes remote scripts in an extremely efficient, non-blocking manner. With that efficiency, however, comes the complexity of working outside the "normal" top-down page flow of the document. This means that the DOM-Ready event provided by jQuery has to be integrated in to the LA ... Read More »
• July 18, 2011
• 10:36

  Trying Out LAB.js For Asynchronous JavaScript (Script) Loading

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The other weekend, I watched Kyle Simpson talk about Script Loaders at the New York City GothamJS conference. Script loaders (hopefully) provide an API for optimal, asynchronous JavaScript loading with options for dependency management. If this sounds complicated, it is; actually, from the kind of stuff Kyle was discussing, it's actually quite a bit more complicated than you think it is. I haven't played around with script loaders at all. ... Read More »
• July 13, 2011
• 10:57

  Some Thoughts On Handling 401 Unauthorized Errors With jQuery

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  As I continue to make the journey from the "traditional" request-response web application design to thick-client, AJAX-driven, realtime applications, I am always finding new problems to solve. Yesterday, on a project, we started seeing an issue where a user would have two tabs open for the same app; then, they would explicitly log-out of one tab which would cause all of the AJAX requests in the other tab to break (they were being diverted to the login page). To fix this in the quickest, easie ... Read More »
• July 12, 2011
• 10:24

  Using MySQL's TO_DAYS() Function To Group Same-Day Events

   » ‎ Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com
  The other day, I was creating a reporting and statistics page for a small project. One of the reports that I had to generate required me to group records by Date, outputting the number of records created on each day. The records themselves had a dateCreated field containing a date/time value. Due to the time portion of the date/time value, however, I couldn't group the records directly by their dateCreated value; but, I could group them together based on their calculated TO_DAYS() value. Unfo ... Read More »