Working Code Podcast - Episode 130: Book Club, The Phoenix Project
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the first few chapters of The Phoenix Project, our latest book club book....
From: Ben Nadel
6/7/23, 6:31 PM
Building A Magic Link Passwordless Login In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel shares the details of the magic link / passwordless login system that he's built in ColdFusion...
From: Ben Nadel
6/6/23, 7:37 PM
Using Nested Locks To Synchronize Background Data Cleanup In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel considers using nested CFLock tags in order to synchronize a background data cleanup process in ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel
6/3/23, 6:49 PM
The 16th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2023
Ben Nadel celebrates the 16th annual Regular Expression (RegEx) Day! An ongoing tribute to the unbridled power of pattern matching!...
From: Ben Nadel
6/1/23, 6:09 PM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 129: Build vs. Maintain
Ben Nadel and the crew talk the unhealthy tension that can manifest between Engineering and Product when product moves on and the engineers have to maintain the system in a vacuum....
From: Ben Nadel
5/31/23, 6:38 PM
Code Kata: Simple Dependency Injection (DI) With ColdFusion
Ben Nadel builds a simple but powerful dependency injection (DI) framework as a code kata in ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel
5/29/23, 2:40 AM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 128: Potluck
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of web development topics, focusing on why we don't approach Testing with more measure and constraint....
From: Ben Nadel
5/24/23, 6:30 PM
Firefox CSS Bug: Four-Sided Positioning With Buttons
Ben Nadel demonstrates a four-sided positioning bug for buttons in Firefox. And, how to use CSS Flexbox as a work-around....
From: Ben Nadel
5/21/23, 5:46 PM
Using CSS Flexbox To Create A Simple Bar Chart In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to create a simple bar chart using CSS Flexbox and ColdFusion, no JavaScript necessary....
From: Ben Nadel
5/18/23, 6:46 PM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 127: Tech Interviewing Is Broken With Sean Corfield
Ben Nadel and the crew talk to Sean Corfield about hiring technical candidates; and, why the pervasive approach to interviewing is completely broken....
From: Ben Nadel
5/17/23, 6:19 PM
Parsing GitHub Gist Embeds Into A Normalized Data Structure Using jSoup In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to load GitHub Gist data as JSON, then parse it with jSoup, and render it with ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel
5/16/23, 6:26 PM
Maintaining White Space Using jSoup And ColdFusion
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to maintain leading / trailing white space in a jSoup Document by disabling pretty print in ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel
5/14/23, 9:38 PM
Using BugSnag As A Server-Side Logging Service In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel shares how he's using BugSnag as his server-side log and exception aggregator in ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel
5/10/23, 8:03 PM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 126: Documenting Design Decisions
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about documenting design decisions; and, about keeping those documents up-to-date over time....
From: Ben Nadel
5/10/23, 6:36 PM
Importing Multiple ColdFusion Custom Tag Directories Using The Same Prefix
Ben Nadel demonstrates that multiple ColdFusion custom tags can be imported under the same prefix even if they are in different directories....
From: Ben Nadel
5/7/23, 9:34 PM
ColdFusion Custom Tags Can Use Dashed Attributes
Ben Nadel demonstrates that dashed and name-spaced attributes can be passed into ColdFusion custom tags....
From: Ben Nadel
5/7/23, 6:44 PM
On Starting A Side-Project: Hotwire vs. Angular
Ben Nadel considers whether he should start his next project with Hotwire or Angular. Both have benefits and drawbacks....
From: Ben Nadel
5/7/23, 3:02 AM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 125: What's On Your Workbench?
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics; but, mostly let Ben go on and on about the subjective nature of programming....
From: Ben Nadel
5/3/23, 6:38 PM
Hosting Google Fonts Locally For GDPR Compliance
Ben Nadel starts hosting Google Fonts locally in order to move towards GDPR compliance....
From: Ben Nadel
5/2/23, 7:28 PM
DHH On The Freedom Of Server-Side Programming
Ben Nadel shares part of an interview with DHH on the beautiful freedom that server-side programming gives us as developers....
From: Ben Nadel
4/30/23, 9:00 PM
Handling 401 Unauthorized Responses In Turbo Drive And ColdFusion
Ben Nadel explores ways in which to handle 401 Unauthorized responses in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application; and, how to handle it in a Turbo Frame context....
From: Ben Nadel
4/30/23, 3:51 AM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 124: Juniors For Life
Ben Nadel and the crew talk trying to stay up-to-date on everything that is happening in the web development industry....
From: Ben Nadel
4/26/23, 6:26 PM
John Gall's Law On Building Complex Systems
Ben Nadel takes comfort in John Gall's law on building complex systems. And why starting simple isn't just practical, it's the only way to be successful....
From: Ben Nadel
4/24/23, 6:16 PM
Working Code Podcast - Episode 123: Negative 10x Developers
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about how to be a negative 10x engineer by wasting time and wreaking havoc with large documents and massive meetings....
From: Ben Nadel
4/19/23, 5:22 PM
Selecting Portions Of A Turbo Stream Template With Custom Actions
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to create custom Turbo Stream actions that allow only portions of the template to be extracted and applied to the live page....
From: Ben Nadel
4/18/23, 6:49 PM