Removing A CSS Stylesheet Removes Its Affect On The Document

Ben Nadel demonstrates that removing a CSS stylesheet also removes any CSS affects that it had on the active document....

From: Ben Nadel

CSS overscroll-behavior Only Affects Scroll Containers

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the overscroll-behavior CSS property only affects elements that actually have scrolling content....

From: Ben Nadel

My CF Summit East Schedule

Greetings from the Chicago Airport! I'm currently waiting on my flight that's been delayed several times. This place becomes even more of a zoo every time I'm here. Anyway, assuming they find a way to get me to DC before morning (cross your fingers!), I'll be speaking at the CF Summit East tomorrow.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Working Code Podcast - Episode 121: Ben's Testing Tribulations

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the "what" of testing in programming. This was inspired by a set of tests that seemed to be extremely brittle....

From: Ben Nadel

Conway's Game Of Life In Hotwire And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel implements John Conway's Game of Life using Hotwire and ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

Thought Experiment: Creating Single Use-Case Components In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel considers a thought experiment in which each individual action in an application is modeled as its own "Use Case" component in ColdFusion....

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Getting FusionReactor User Experience Monitoring (UEM) To Play Nicely With Content Security Policy (CSP) In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how he got FusionReactor's User Experience Monitoring (UEM) to play nicely with his ColdFusion site's Content Security Policy (CSP)....

From: Ben Nadel

Accessing Azure MariaDB server with Navicat

Database client Navicat doesn't seem to recognize MariaDB servers hosted on Azure.

From: cfSimplicity

Working Code Podcast - Episode 120: Freelancing With Nolan Erck

Ben Nadel and the crew talk to Nolan Erck about how to start and maintain a successful software consulting career....

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A Bit Of Optimism: This Might Not Work

Ben Nadel shares an inspiring bit of discussion between Simon Sinek and Seth Godin on embracing failure in order to express love....

From: Ben Nadel

Trying To Get ChatGPT 4 To Solve My Hotwire Form Submission Problem

Ben Nadel tries to get ChatGPT to solve a problem that he is having with Hotwire form submissions....

From: Ben Nadel

Disabling Turbo Drive In A Subdirectory Of Your ColdFusion Application

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to disable Hotwire Turbo Drive on all links that point to a given subdirectory within a ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel

Russian Doll Content Wrapping With CFSaveContent In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use Russian Doll content nesting with the CFSaveContent tag to compose data in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 119: Potluck

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics from independent consulting to technical debt to common sense to Bloom filters....

From: Ben Nadel

Speaking at CF Summit East 2023!

Conference season is here again!  And I'll be kicking it off by speaking at Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2023 in Washington DC!

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

ColdFusion March 2023 emergency update, and what to do about it

If you've not heard, a new update has been released (March 14, 2023) for ColdFusion 2021 and 2018.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Incrementally Applying Hotwire To An Existing ColdFusion Application

Ben Nadel describes a plan for incrementally applying Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus) to an existing ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel

I've Never Had A Good Story For View-Rendering Helpers In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores a way to package common view-rendering methods in a ColdFusion component....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 118: Things We Should Be Doing

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about all the things they should be doing; but, which they can't quite motivate to get done....

From: Ben Nadel

Using Nested Stimulus Controllers With Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel looks at several ways to communicate between nested Stimulus controllers in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel