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

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

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

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

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

Clojure/conj 2024

After last year's regular posts about my Clojurists Together-funded work on clojure-doc.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Using jSoup To Sanitize Untrusted HTML In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use JSoup's Safelist and Cleaner classes to sanitize untrusted HTML in ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

Fixinator's New Compatibility Scanner

Upgrading to the latest version of ColdFusion can be stressful.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Safe-Navigation Operator Swallows Method Errors In Adobe ColdFusion 2023

Ben Nadel demonstrates a bug in the safe-navigation operator in Adobe ColdFusion that swallows errors....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 200: We're Taking A Break

Ben Nadel and the crew reflect on recording 200 episodes of the show and decide to take a break through the end of 2024....

From: Ben Nadel

Feature Flags Book Playground, Videos, And Code

Ben Nadel shares his feature flags playground app, complete with video commentary and source code on GitHub....

From: Ben Nadel

Playing With Window Functions In MySQL 8

Ben Nadel looks at Window Functions in MySQL for the first time, applying ROW_NUMBER() and DENSE_RANK() to a common table expression....

From: Ben Nadel

High Performance SQLite Video Course By Aaron Francis

Ben Nadel reviews the High Performance SQLite video course by Aaron Francis. A high quality course for SQLite; or anyone interested in SQL....

From: Ben Nadel

Oembed, Webmentions, Twitter, Threads & Bluesky

Many months back now, I excitedly wrote up an article about custom twitter embeds.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Working Code Podcast - Episode 199: Country Code TLDs

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the practice of co-opting country top level domains (TLDs)....

From: Ben Nadel

Running Memory Leak Detection After Every ColdFusion Request

Ben Nadel adds memory leak detection to his ColdFusion feature flags playground app. This leak detection runs in the onRequestEnd() event method after every request....

From: Ben Nadel

Announcing ColdFusion updates released Oct 15 2024: enhancements and fixes

An update for ColdFusion has been released yesterday for both cf2023 (as update 11) and and cf2021 (as update 17).

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Collocating My ColdFusion, CSS, And JavaScript Files

Ben Nadel explores the use of collocated CFML, JavaScript, and Less CSS files in his ColdFusion multi-page application (MPA) architecture....

From: Ben Nadel

Announcing Java updates of Oct 2024 for 8, 11, 17, 21, and 23: thoughts and resources

It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Oct 15, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 23.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Dave Farley On What Makes High Quality Code

Ben Nadel heartily agrees with Dave Farley's notion that high quality code is code that's safe and easy to change....

From: Ben Nadel

Making A Case For Var Declarations In ColdFusion Templates

Ben Nadel makes a case for why Adobe ColdFusion should allow the var keyword to be used outside of function bodies....

From: Ben Nadel

CSV To CTE Transformer In Angular 18

Ben Nadel creates a CSV (comma separated values) to CTE (common table expression) transform in Angular 18....

From: Ben Nadel

ColdFusion Summit 2024 Slides: 20 ways to secure CF

This year at the Adobe ColdFusion summit in Las Vegas I presented on 20 ways to secure ColdFusion.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Working Code Podcast - Episode 197: Potluck

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics from job promotions, AI training, team alignment, and reconnecting with one's self....

From: Ben Nadel

Announcing ColdFusion updates released Sep 10 2024: P3 security update

Though the news is a couple of days old, I want to share with my readers that an update for ColdFusion has been released Tuesday, Sep 10, for both cf2023 (update 10) and and cf2021 (update 16).

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting