Google's new Research Bar is nifty
- May 16, 2012 1:50 PM
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I have to say, the research sidebar is very useful; Google is really trying to give Docs some powerful differentiators, and I'd say this is one.
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Digg It!Really enjoying this song today
- May 8, 2012 3:56 PM
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Really enjoying this song today... only found these guys on Pandora recently and really dig it.
Ratatat - LexLost an hour of work time today due to #ATT
- May 7, 2012 1:46 PM
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Lost an hour of work time today due to #ATT; some websites would load fine, others failed during routing after hitting their servers and by the time I'd gotten through to support they'd already resolved the issue. What do I, as the customer, get for my time and frustration? I think you know the answer...
Utility Function: StructMerge
- May 5, 2012 9:03 AM
- Utility Function, ColdFusion
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If all you need to do is merge two simple structs, then StructAppend() is a great function to get you there, but if you have complex structs (meaning structs that contain structs) you may be wanting to find a solution that does a deep merge:
<cffunction name="StructMerge" access="public" output="false" returntype="struct">
<cfargument name="Struct1" type="struct" required="true" />
<cfargument name="Struct2" type="struct" required="true" />
<cfargument name="Overwrite" type="boolean" required="false" default="true" />
<!--- Loop Keys --->
<cfloop collection="#Arguments.Struct2#" item="Local.Key">
<!--- Find if the new key from Struct2 Exists in Struct1 --->
<cfif StructKeyExists(Arguments.Struct1, Local.Key)>
<!--- If they are both structs, we need to merge those structs, too --->
<cfif IsStruct(Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key]) AND IsStruct(Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key])>
<!--- Recursively call StructMerge to merge those structs --->
<cfset StructMerge(Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key], Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key], Arguments.Overwrite) />
<!--- We already checked that the key existed, now we just check if we can overwrite it --->
<cfelseif Arguments.Overwrite>
<cfset Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key] = Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key] />
<!--- The unused case here is if Overwrite is false, in which case Struct1 is not changed --->
</cfif>
<!--- If it doesn't exist, you're free to merge --->
<cfelse>
<cfset Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key] = Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key] />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn Arguments.Struct1 />
</cffunction>
<cfargument name="Struct1" type="struct" required="true" />
<cfargument name="Struct2" type="struct" required="true" />
<cfargument name="Overwrite" type="boolean" required="false" default="true" />
<!--- Loop Keys --->
<cfloop collection="#Arguments.Struct2#" item="Local.Key">
<!--- Find if the new key from Struct2 Exists in Struct1 --->
<cfif StructKeyExists(Arguments.Struct1, Local.Key)>
<!--- If they are both structs, we need to merge those structs, too --->
<cfif IsStruct(Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key]) AND IsStruct(Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key])>
<!--- Recursively call StructMerge to merge those structs --->
<cfset StructMerge(Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key], Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key], Arguments.Overwrite) />
<!--- We already checked that the key existed, now we just check if we can overwrite it --->
<cfelseif Arguments.Overwrite>
<cfset Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key] = Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key] />
<!--- The unused case here is if Overwrite is false, in which case Struct1 is not changed --->
</cfif>
<!--- If it doesn't exist, you're free to merge --->
<cfelse>
<cfset Arguments.Struct1[Local.Key] = Arguments.Struct2[Local.Key] />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfreturn Arguments.Struct1 />
</cffunction>
This code merges all sub structures as well as the core one. I'd also say it would be an easy adjustment to merge arrays and other data types if necessary. I'm not sure if CF10 will be adding something like this or not, but I know for CF9.0.1 I needed it.
This is a nice little design article on spacing and typography
- May 4, 2012 2:17 PM
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This is a nice little design article on spacing and typography; its often hard to explain to a client or a non-designer why spacing and subtle shading makes such a huge difference, but I think its quite obvious when you look at the starting example and the end result.
A few things I found interesting at the UGA Art Museum
- May 3, 2012 8:33 PM
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A few things I found interesting at the UGA Art Museum.
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