Presenting "Updating the Java underlying ColdFusion: considering it, doing it" Thurs Jan 18, Online
As most know, ColdFusion runs atop Java (and has since CF6).
As most know, ColdFusion runs atop Java (and has since CF6).
If you may learn there's a new Java update available, it may well be relatively simple for you to apply that update, but if you're running important applications that rely on Java, it's in your interest to give some consideration to various matters related to doing such an update.
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21.
Drag and drop support in JavaScript is probably two to three hundred years old now (plus or minus a few years), but I use it rarely enough such that when I need it, I run over to MDN's article on it as a quick refresher.
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In this article, I'll provide an overview of Developer Relations (DevRel) and guide you on how to get started. If you're considering this as a potential career, I hope to inform and inspire you.
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Ben Nadel demonstrates several ways to create an abstraction for timeboxed code execution in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that per-application mappings in ColdFusion can map directly to files, not just directories....
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Ben Nadel looks at how to consume large external configuration files inside a ColdFusion component....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about their goals for 2024. And, invite you to submit suggestions on how the show can be improved....
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Ben Nadel shares everything he learned after sending 7 million emails over 5 days using ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel looks at using Cloudflare Turnstile in ColdFusion as a CAPTCHA alternative....
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I first discovered Diffbot way back in 2021 when I built a demo of their APIs for the Adobe Developer blog ("Natural Language Processing, Adobe PDF Extract, and Deep PDF Intelligence").
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Ben Nadel continues to explore error handling during async iteration in ColdFusion. It seems that Adobe ColdFusion 2023 and Lucee CFML 6 have different behaviors....
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Ben Nadel explores the notion of a Retry Policy for CFHttp requests in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel considers the ergonomics of Tag and Object APIs in ColdFusion....
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I love when I work on one demo, hit an issue, discover something else and get joyfully distracted into learning something completely different.
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about design systems, programming philosophy, and the notion of an Overview Effect in the history of computing....
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In the twenty plus years this blog has been around, I've had various different comment systems.
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In this article I will take a look at some goals and things I want to focus on in the new year.
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