Ben Nadel is going to try his hand at writing a book: Feature Flags - From Concept to Cultural Revolution, an opinionated guide to product development....
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Ben Nadel explores labeled loops in JavaScript, exerting control flow on an outer loop from within an inner loop context....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about moving on - from jobs, from relationships, from roles, from tech stacks, etc....
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Ben Nadel uses the CFInclude tag to inline a .CSS file into his ColdFusion page in order to reduce network requests and latency....
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Ben Nadel explores the use of loop labels in ColdFusion to control and outer loop from an inner loop....
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Ben Nadel looks at using fileSeek() to randomly access seekable files in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to read a text file line-by-line using CFLoop in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel discusses the psychological benefits of using feature flags as a way to provide landmarks and a sense of continual progress....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk all manner of randomness from vendoring files to the trap of innovation....
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Ben Nadel reviews Wireframing For Everyone, an A Book Apart release by Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, and Billy Carlson. An excellent read, this book is a value-add for anyone involved in software design and development....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about "dog fooding", and the importance of becoming our own customers when building a product offering....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that position: sticky can be anchored on multiple sides at once in CSS....
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Adobe has released today an important security update for each of ColdFusion 2023 and 2021.
Ben Nadel and the crew talk detecting, preventing, and dealing with the aftermath of fraud within our web applications....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the error "type" in Adobe ColdFusion isn't always a String....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that CSS Flexbox panels with overflow:auto work exactly as he hoped they would work....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk database schema design; and how many, smaller tables might be beneficial when compared to fewer, wider tables....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how he can create a robust and resilient routing / controller layer using nested CFSwitch and CFInclude tags in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about tracking activity streak data in Dig Deep Fitness; and, how to deal with an individual user's timezone....
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Ben Nadel learns from Layla Porter that his assumptions about a "modular monolith" were completely wrong. Dangerously wrong....
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If you're using FusionReactor, note that a 10.
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to auto-save form data in the background using the fetch() API with the FormData() object....
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With all the recent updates to CF (and the ongoing need to keep up and related things up-to-date), I wanted to share some news: I've long had on my site a meta resource page regarding keeping ColdFusion updated, where I offered both links and tips related to updating CF as well as the JVM underlying...
Ben Nadel demonstrates that MySQL 8.0.13 ALTER statements allow a new column to default to the value of an existing column....
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