New Course: Up & Running with Vue.js

I released a new course on how to get up and running with Vue.js for beginners

From: Dan Vega

What can startups learn from Koch Industries?

I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

We're hiring at Better

Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Spring Boot in Visual Studio Code

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a new Spring Boot application in Visual Studio Code

From: Dan Vega

A Beginner's Guide to Unit Testing in Vue: Part 3

In Part 3 of this series we learn how to write unit tests in Vue by testing more complex components.

From: Dan Vega

Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations

My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives. I've suspected for years that the “classic” buffet line system is a deeply flawed and inefficient method, and every time I'm stuck in the line has made me more convinced.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

A Beginner's Guide to Unit Testing in Vue: Part 2

In the 2nd part of this 3 part series we will look at writing and running your first unit test in Vue

From: Dan Vega

Who's had more vulns, take 3: Java, ColdFusion, ROR, .NET

There's a fair amount of disingenuity, or perhaps just willful ignorance to the statistics here and I talk to a lot of people who are astonished that CFML is still in use due to the alleged massive numbers of vulnerabilities.

From: Coders Revolution

A beginner's guide to Unit Testing in Vue: Part 1

Unit Testing in Vue: What to test?

From: Dan Vega

Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I'd share some. Honestly, I feel like I've mostly benefitted from luck.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

How do you use clojure.spec

An interesting Clojure question came up on Quora recently and I decided that my answer to "how do you use clojure.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Looking for a ColdFusion plus ReactJS Unicorn - Horn Optional

We provide W2 employment with benefits for remote workers (i.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Learn how to use CSS Grid with a FREE tool CSS Grid Generator

Learn how to create a CSS Grid Layout with a free tool called CSS Grid Generator

From: Dan Vega

Release! Release! Release!

Lots of ReleasesOver the last week or so I've released minor updates to several of the projects I maintain, so I thought it would be nice to have a summary blog post rather than a scattering of minor announcements.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions

This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL! Separately, I'm sorry it's been so long with no posts on this blog.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

New Features and Improvements to my website

In this article I am going to walk you through some of the new features I have been working on for my website

From: Dan Vega

Next.JDBC to 1.0.0 and Beyond!

next.jdbc 1.0.0 and 1.0.1First off, seancorfield/next.jdbc 1.0.0 was released on June 13th, 2019 (and I announced it on ClojureVerse but did not blog about it), and yesterday I released seancorfield/next.jdbc 1.0.1 which is mostly documentation improvements.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

A Quick Example Of Functional Programming (FP) In CFML

I wasadding a feature to CommandBox CLIthis week when I typed up some code that iterated over the keys in a struct, filtering out the ones it needed and then performed an action on the matching ones.

From: Coders Revolution

Adobe Coldfusion Vulnerability - CVE-2019-7838, CVE-2019-7839, CVE-2019-7840/ APSB19-27

DataBank has issued a Security Bulletin to all of their ColdFusion clients about the recent Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability.

From: ColdFusion Muse

How to use cookies in VuePress

In this article, I am going to talk about a recent documentation site to VuePress and how I was able to solve a problem I ran across.

From: Dan Vega

Triggering events from Vue Router views

In this article I will show you how to trigger events from views using the Router View component.

From: Dan Vega

How to escape a backtick within a code block in Markdown

In this article I will show you how to escape the triple backtick in a markdown code block so that you can display it in a post or a Github comment.

From: Dan Vega

Vue CLI ValidationError: webpack Dev Server Invalid Options

In this article, I will tell you about an error I received while trying to run and new VueJS project this morning and how I was able to fix it.

From: Dan Vega