Working Code Podcast - Episode 202: Um, Actually

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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Getting Flattened Component Metadata In ColdFusion

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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Working Code Podcast - Episode 201: LLM's vs Stack Overflow

Ben Nadel and the crew talk Large Language Models (LLMs) and their impact on sites like Stack Overflow....

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Collocating My .gitignore Configuration Files With The Omitted Files

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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Extracting InVision V6 Document Export JSON Data In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel creates a ColdFusion utility to extract JSON configuration data from an InVision V6 document export....

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Hosting Your Exported InVision V6 Prototypes On Cloudflare Pages

Ben Nadel demonstrates how InVision V6 exported prototypes and boards can be effortlessly uploaded to Cloudflare Pages for free hosting....

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Strange ___IMPLICITARRYSTRUCTVAR Behavior In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrate a ColdFusion bug regarding implicit struct and array notation that can create unsafe parallel code execution....

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Free Online Version Of My Feature Flags Book

Ben Nadel publishes a free online edition of his book, Feature Flags: Transform Your Product Development Workflow....

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My Internal InVision Feature Demo Videos

Ben Nadel shares many of the feature and experiment demo videos that he made in his time at InVision....

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Considering The Aesthetics And Ergonomics Of Post-Back URLs In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel re-thinks the aesthetics and ergonomics of post-back URLs in ColdFusion; and changes his strategy going forward....

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Unreasonable Hospitality By Will Guidara

Ben Nadel reviews Will Guidara's book, Unreasonable Hospitality - a truly wonderful book....

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Code Kata: Box Breathing Exercise With SpeechSynthesis And Alpine.js

Ben Nadel uses the SpeechSynthesis API to build a small box breathing guided meditation in Alpine.js....

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Collocating Views And View-Specific Components In ColdFusion

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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Using Row Constructor Comparisons In MySQL

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "row constructor" syntax in MySQL for comparing multiple values simultaneously....

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Mastering Postgres Video Course By Aaron Francis

Ben Nadel reviews the Mastering Postgres video course by Aaron Francis....

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Adding Keyboard Shortcuts To Incident Commander Using Alpine.js

Ben Nadel looks at adding keyboard shortcuts to Incident Commander using Alpine.js....

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What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility By Sarah Horton And David Sloan

Ben Nadel reviews the book, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility by Sarah Horton and David Sloan....

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Ask Ben: Sorting Quasi-Numeric Values Like 4K And 3M In ColdFusion

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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Associating Form Inputs With ColdFusion Validation Error Types

Ben Nadel looks at associating form input controls to ColdFusion validation errors using a simple, opt-in experience....

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Exploring Cloudflare R2 And Request Authorization Using AWS Signature V4

Ben Nadel explores the AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 Signature V4 authorization algorithm in ColdFusion....

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Using CSS Gap To Control Margins In Website Copy

Ben Nadel demonstrates how the CSS gap property can be used to effectively manage margins in website content....

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Optional Password Protection Added To Incident Commander

Ben Nadel explores the optional password protection that he's add to Incident Commander, his ColdFusion incident triage application....

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Considering Encrypting Passwords At Rest In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores the idea of storing encrypted passwords in ColdFusion in cases where decrypting a password is an application requirement....

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Considering A Secure Encoding Technique Inspired By JWT In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel creates a JWT-inspired light-weight encoder for his secure cookies in ColdFusion....

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Formatting Dates In The Local Timezone With Alpine.js

Ben Nadel explores the idea of using Alpine.js to format date/time values on the client-side in the user's local timezone....

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