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Model-Glue 'Generic Read' Time Tests 3 years ago

It's in the wee hours of the night and I'm trying to knock out one more item from my client's laundry list: speed up the load time of a specific template in his Model Glue app. This particular template has several different select lists, each being popula

Viewing Option Text (in IE7) that's Wider than the Select … 3 years ago

Though a "minor" cosmetic issue at times, it can be challenging to come up with creative ways to accommodate what I consider to be IE's shortcomings regarding the control of form items, in particular select lists. With at least one project I'm c

Inline CSS and Ajax Issue with IE 3 years ago

After spending more time than I care to say troubleshooting a CSS issue with IE7, I thought I'd share the details here in case it saves anybody else some time later down the road.The Scenario...I have an application that updates the contents of one of its

Why I Hate ORMs (a solicited rant) 3 years ago

A necessary disclaimer...Everything in the following post that appears to be an opinion most likely is and should be taken as such. My personal view on a topic does not (necessarily) invalidate any other opposing view. Readers should ascribe whatever valu

Client-Side Drilldowns Made Easy 3 years ago

Last September I shared a post on an alternative to Ajax for client-side interactivity leveraging Coldfusion's WDDX. I'd like to take it a step further now and share an approach (and corresponding code) I often use in my Model-Glue apps when needing to cr

For Your Entertainment Only: CF is Dead Dialogue 3 years ago

The following post is for entertainment purposes only and is not intended to prompt any real responses from anyone. In addition, if you're truly tired of the topic of "Coldfusion is Dead", don't even waste your time reading this post. I just rec

What IS a Function, Anyway? 3 years ago

Function.The word has given not just new coders wrinkled brows and vacant stares, but also most everyone who encounters the term initially. Though we programmers might tend to think "function" only applies to us, in reality it crosses ever

What IS 'Business Logic', Anyway? 3 years ago

So I'm having a discussion with my friend Jim the other day about an article he was writing and I give him a suggestion regarding one of his sentences on the subject of encapsulation. He had stated that encapsulation is about hiding data, while I appended

Finding 'Fat Finger' errors in Modelglue.xml 3 years ago

Ever felt so confident in your skills and ability to code an entire model glue event from the xml to the controller, model, and view that you decided to go ahead and do two or three entire events before you actually attempted to run your code, only to fin

JSON.CFC, MAYBE CF8 DIDN'T MAKE YOU OBSOLETE AFTER ALL! 3 years ago

Back in July I shared the results of my personal forray into JSON as a blog post, comparing it to XML as a means of returning Ajax data. In order to conduct my experiments, I had utilized an open source CFC called JSON.CFC in order to do the conversion fr