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Code Kata: Box Breathing Exercise With SpeechSynthesis And Alpine.js

Ben Nadel uses the SpeechSynthesis API to build a small box breathing guided meditation in Alpine.js....

12/14/24, 6:31 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Collocating Views And View-Specific Components In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel continues to explore the collocation of view-specific files, this time putting ColdFusion components right next to his CFML files in a ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel

12/13/24, 6:48 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Using Row Constructor Comparisons In MySQL

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "row constructor" syntax in MySQL for comparing multiple values simultaneously....

From: Ben Nadel

12/10/24, 4:38 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Mastering Postgres Video Course By Aaron Francis

Ben Nadel reviews the Mastering Postgres video course by Aaron Francis....

From: Ben Nadel

12/9/24, 1:54 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Adding Keyboard Shortcuts To Incident Commander Using Alpine.js

Ben Nadel looks at adding keyboard shortcuts to Incident Commander using Alpine.js....

From: Ben Nadel

12/6/24, 12:56 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility By Sarah Horton And David Sloan

Ben Nadel reviews the book, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility by Sarah Horton and David Sloan....

From: Ben Nadel

12/5/24, 1:21 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Ask Ben: Sorting Quasi-Numeric Values Like 4K And 3M In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to sort an array of mixed numeric and numeric-like text values (such as 4K and 3M) in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

12/4/24, 6:21 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Associating Form Inputs With ColdFusion Validation Error Types

Ben Nadel looks at associating form input controls to ColdFusion validation errors using a simple, opt-in experience....

From: Ben Nadel

12/3/24, 2:31 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Exploring Cloudflare R2 And Request Authorization Using AWS Signature V4

Ben Nadel explores the AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 Signature V4 authorization algorithm in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

12/2/24, 11:56 AM Coldfusion/Lucee

Using CSS Gap To Control Margins In Website Copy

Ben Nadel demonstrates how the CSS gap property can be used to effectively manage margins in website content....

From: Ben Nadel

11/27/24, 6:48 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Optional Password Protection Added To Incident Commander

Ben Nadel explores the optional password protection that he's add to Incident Commander, his ColdFusion incident triage application....

From: Ben Nadel

11/25/24, 6:39 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Considering Encrypting Passwords At Rest In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores the idea of storing encrypted passwords in ColdFusion in cases where decrypting a password is an application requirement....

From: Ben Nadel

11/22/24, 6:46 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Considering A Secure Encoding Technique Inspired By JWT In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel creates a JWT-inspired light-weight encoder for his secure cookies in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/21/24, 7:33 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Formatting Dates In The Local Timezone With Alpine.js

Ben Nadel explores the idea of using Alpine.js to format date/time values on the client-side in the user's local timezone....

From: Ben Nadel

11/20/24, 8:28 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Counting The Occurrences Of A Substring Or RegEx Pattern In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores various techniques for counting the occurrences of a string or regular expression pattern in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/20/24, 5:54 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Rebuilding Incident Commander As A ColdFusion App

Ben Nadel shares his Incident Commander app, for triaging incidents, which he's rebuilt in Adobe ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/18/24, 5:45 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Using fileGetMimeType() To Determine File Type In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the fileGetMimeType() function can be used to inspect the file type / mime-type of a file in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/16/24, 10:03 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Building A Moment-Inspired .fromNow() Date Formatting Method In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel ports his .fromNow() relative date formatting method from Angular in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/16/24, 12:39 AM Coldfusion/Lucee

Inspecting The Form Upload File Field Metadata In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates that you can inspect the form upload file field in ColdFusion to get access to the temporary location of the uploaded file....

From: Ben Nadel

11/13/24, 8:19 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

VARCHAR(Length) Limit Refers To Characters, Not Bytes, In MySQL

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the VARCHAR(length) limit in MySQL refers to the number of characters, not the number of bytes....

From: Ben Nadel

11/11/24, 10:18 PM Coldfusion/Lucee

Using JSoup To Report Untrusted HTML Elements And Attributes In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use JSoup's Safelist to access information about which tags and attributes are going to be removed during the sanitization process in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

11/9/24, 12:12 PM Coldfusion/Lucee