IntroductionThis post is about ColdFusion 2023 Update 5 and ColdFusion 2021 Update 11, but it's also about more than just those versions.
I just discovered the structuredClone() method.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
I've really been enjoying working with Google's PaLM 2 AI API and this week I used it to build a pretty interesting demo I think.
From: Raymond Camden
Ben Nadel reproduces an error in jSoup and ColdFusion; and demonstrates how to get around it by using the .remove() method....
From: Ben Nadel
Yesterday I shared my initial impressions of working with Google's PaLM 2 AI API.
From: Raymond Camden
Like, I assume, every single developer on the planet, I've been somewhat innudated with GenAI over the past year or so.
From: Raymond Camden
If you try to apply ColdFusion updates (including the latest released Oct 6) via the CF admin or command line and find that the update fails, the problem may be due to the JVM you're using (within CF or at the command line). There's a simple solution, which I discuss in this post. [More]
I've had a lot of fun building Mastodon bots (see my list of super-important business critical bots as an example), typically using the Pipedream platform, and more recently, Cloudflare Workers.
From: Raymond Camden
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics: Transactive Memory Systems theory, starting new things, ticketing systems, and becoming a force multiplier....
From: Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at the trimWhitespace() function in Lucee CFML; and, tries to distill the behavior down into a set of whitespace rules....
From: Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel uses jSoup and ColdFusion to generate a table of contents from a flat HTML file....
From: Ben Nadel
A code-review of sorts where we go over some of the real-world situations when things just don't go the way the Stack Overflow Gods say they should. We'll look at the pros and cons of solutions in these situations and the lessons hopefully learned along the way.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
Two of the most powerful features in Mura 7 are the improvements made to Mura ORM and the Feed API.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
Have you ever wanted to test (from the command line) whether a port on another machine can be reached from yours? When some app of your can't seem to connect to a given port, you may want to test things from the command line.
Hello from lovely Las Vegas, where, believe it or not, it is actually cooler (temperature-wise) than where I flew in from.
From: Raymond Camden
So you've learned the basics of JavaScript (and programming in general) – variables, if/else statements, loops, and you even know how to use functions.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
You can literally write a Mura plugin using any flavor of ColdFusion you want (Model-Glue, spaghetti code, whatever).
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
DI/1 is gaining in popularity, ColdSpring 2 has been quasi-available for a while now too. But do newbies know what they are and when/why to use them? Let's do an intro to the concept of "dependency injection" and see how both ColdSpring and DI/1 handle this facet of development.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
Bootstrap is a new CSS / JavaScript framework that (among other things) solves many common UI problems in web development.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
