Working Code Podcast - Episode 125: What's On Your Workbench?

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics; but, mostly let Ben go on and on about the subjective nature of programming....

From: Ben Nadel

Hosting Google Fonts Locally For GDPR Compliance

Ben Nadel starts hosting Google Fonts locally in order to move towards GDPR compliance....

From: Ben Nadel

DHH On The Freedom Of Server-Side Programming

Ben Nadel shares part of an interview with DHH on the beautiful freedom that server-side programming gives us as developers....

From: Ben Nadel

Handling 401 Unauthorized Responses In Turbo Drive And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores ways in which to handle 401 Unauthorized responses in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application; and, how to handle it in a Turbo Frame context....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 124: Juniors For Life

Ben Nadel and the crew talk trying to stay up-to-date on everything that is happening in the web development industry....

From: Ben Nadel

Delighted to be speaking at CFCamp 2023

I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak at CFCamp 2023, in Munich this June.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

New look for CArehart.org, especially better for the blog on mobile

OK, so in my last post (celebrating my 600th post and 17th year blogging here) I happened to admit that the site still looked like it was from 2006--that's actually the year of the blogcfc 5.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

John Gall's Law On Building Complex Systems

Ben Nadel takes comfort in John Gall's law on building complex systems. And why starting simple isn't just practical, it's the only way to be successful....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 123: Negative 10x Developers

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about how to be a negative 10x engineer by wasting time and wreaking havoc with large documents and massive meetings....

From: Ben Nadel

An interesting pair of anniversaries for my blog: 600 posts, over 17 years this month

After I posted my last entry, I happened to notice that it was exactly my 600th post here at carehart.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

New updates released for Java 8, 11, 17, and 20 as of Apr 18 2023

It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Apr 18, 2023) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well as the current interim update 20.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Selecting Portions Of A Turbo Stream Template With Custom Actions

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to create custom Turbo Stream actions that allow only portions of the template to be extracted and applied to the live page....

From: Ben Nadel

Accessing Stimulus Controllers From A Given DOM Element In Hotwire

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to access a Stimulus controller from a given DOM element in Hotwire....

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Building Resilient Feature Flags That "Fail Open" In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to code resilient feature flag logic so that features can "fail open" at the end of development in ColdFusion....

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Associating Submit Buttons With Any Form Using Button Attributes In Native HTML

Ben Nadel demonstrates that any button can submit any form, regardless of where it is on the page, by using the form attribute....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 122: Coding Hot Takes

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about using 1Password Secretes Automation, building sites in React JSX, and missing IE11 guard rails....

From: Ben Nadel

Copying AWS EC2 Tags to EBS Using PowerShell

These days when creating an EC2 instance in the AWS console UI, by default, the tags are duplicated across Elastic Block Service (EBS) and Elastic Network Interface (ENI) attached resources being created.

From: Chris Tierney

Listen For Stimulus Custom Events Outside Of Hotwire

Ben Nadel demonstrates that custom Stimulus events are "native" events; and, can be listened to outside of the Hotwire application....

From: Ben Nadel

Using navigator.sendBeacon() To Publish Analytics Back To ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the navigator.sendBeacon() method to publish analytics data efficiently and predictably back to the ColdFusion server....

From: Ben Nadel