Ben Nadel and the crew play a game in which each statement contains a falsehood. The challenge is to figure out which aspect is false; and how to correct it....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to traverse the metadata inheritance chain in ColdFusion; and how to flatten the metadata into a more consumable structure....
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It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 21, 2025) 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.
Here's great news for those still running CF2018 or earlier, who may have been holding off upgrading to CF2023 (because you would have to pay full price for it).
Ben Nadel and the crew talk Large Language Models (LLMs) and their impact on sites like Stack Overflow....
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Are you still running ColdFusion 2021? While it's still supported/updated by Adobe, did you know that its end-of-life is coming just several months from now, Nov 10, 2025? That's the date when "core" support for that release ends--meaning no more updates from Adobe after that, not even security fixe...
If you've not yet heard, Adobe has opened the prerelease program for the next CF version, aka ColdFusion 2025--though referred to by them for now as Project CFNext.
Ben Nadel looks at collocating .gitignore files with the files that they control in order to make code easier to find and easier to delete....
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Ben Nadel creates a ColdFusion utility to extract JSON configuration data from an InVision V6 document export....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how InVision V6 exported prototypes and boards can be effortlessly uploaded to Cloudflare Pages for free hosting....
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Ben Nadel demonstrate a ColdFusion bug regarding implicit struct and array notation that can create unsafe parallel code execution....
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Ben Nadel publishes a free online edition of his book, Feature Flags: Transform Your Product Development Workflow....
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Ben Nadel shares many of the feature and experiment demo videos that he made in his time at InVision....
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Ben Nadel re-thinks the aesthetics and ergonomics of post-back URLs in ColdFusion; and changes his strategy going forward....
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Ben Nadel reviews Will Guidara's book, Unreasonable Hospitality - a truly wonderful book....
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A ColdFusion security patch released two days before Christmas? I have a feeling that may have resulted in many sysadmins shouting "Fiddlesticks!" (or perhaps another f-word) earlier today.
An update for ColdFusion has been released today for both cf2023 (update 12) and cf2021 (update 18).
Ben Nadel uses the SpeechSynthesis API to build a small box breathing guided meditation in Alpine.js....
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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....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "row constructor" syntax in MySQL for comparing multiple values simultaneously....
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Ben Nadel reviews the Mastering Postgres video course by Aaron Francis....
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Ben Nadel looks at adding keyboard shortcuts to Incident Commander using Alpine.js....
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Ben Nadel reviews the book, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility by Sarah Horton and David Sloan....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to sort an array of mixed numeric and numeric-like text values (such as 4K and 3M) in ColdFusion....
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