What's Erik up to?

I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of the largest industries in the US. For six years, I ran the tech team, hiring 300+ people, probably doing 2,000+ interviews, and according to GitHub I added 646,941 lines of code and removed 339,164.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

It's the "Little Things"...

Our Clojure team is a big fan of reducing dependencies and, in particular, avoiding dependencies that are known to be troublesome (such as the special circle of hell that is all the different versions of the Jackson JSON libraries).

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

New Year - New Server - New Direction?

What happened with the blog and whats next

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Detect if a User is Online with RabbitMQ Web Stomp

We're using RabbitMQ and its Web Stomp plugin for websockets for several projects at work.

From: Coders Revolution

deps.edn and monorepos

At World Singles Networks llc we have been using a monorepo for several years and it has taken us several iterations to settle on a structure that works well with the Clojure CLI and deps.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

A quick comparison of using Python and CFML to write the same CLI tool

A few days ago, Joseph Lamoree posted about a cool little command line tool he wrote in Python that would scan a list of servers check check for a public facing administrator.

From: Coders Revolution

Full Stack Java development with Spring Boot and VueJS

In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to build a full-stack application that uses Vue for the frontend and Spring Boot for the backend.

From: Dan Vega

Create your own Desktop "Toaster" Popups in CommandBox Servers

Here's a quick one that I tried out for the first time today.

From: Coders Revolution

How to force a delay in a web app

In this tutorial, I will show you can force a delay in a web application for testing purposes.

From: Dan Vega

New Year, New Opportunities and Goals

In this article, I have some exciting personal news to share and I want to take a look ahead at the new year.

From: Dan Vega

How to test standard in and out in Java

In this tutorial I will show you how you can test standard in and out in Java.

From: Dan Vega

Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Remembering Wil Genovese

Our friend and colleague Wil passed away a few days ago after a hard-fought battle with cancer.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Talks: Clojure's Superpower

For about a decade, I used to speak regularly at conferences and user groups around the world. In 2013, I decided to take a break and just enjoy attending events (here's a small selection of my presentations covering the last three years of that decade).

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Resources from My ColdFusion Summit 2020 Presentation on cflambda

This week, I’m speaking at the ColdFusion Summit 2020 about “Building Serverless ColdFusion Applications with cflambda.

From: Brian Klaas

VS Code and Clover

I've written before about how I switched from Emacs to Atom at the end of 2016, where I initially used ProtoREPL (which is no longer maintained) and then I switched to Chlorine at the end of 2018.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

next.jdbc Compendium II

seancorfield/next.jdbc 1.1.610Updated 2022-09-12 to clarify camel-snake-kebab usage in more recent next.jdbc versions.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Developer experience as a competitive advantage

I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and tooling.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Add a JQuery Validate rule for No Date Greater Than Today

Share this snippet from my archives for adding a JQuery Validate rule which disallows any date greater than today

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Improving Lucee's Query of Query Support

One of the really great features of CFML is the ability to run SQL against a result set in memory.

From: Coders Revolution

Populating a database column with an incrementing value

Here's a quick way to populate a table column with an incrementing value in sql server.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

You can sort on columns by their column number

While not a great idea, it is possible (at least in SQL Server) to order on a column by its numeric column number in the query.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Delete duplicates but keep first record

Expanding on last weeks article about finding the most recent entry in each group we can apply the same technique to delete duplicate database entries while keeping the first original entry.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Slides and Recording from my CFMeetup Presentation: I Didn’t Know S3 Could Do That!

Thanks to the amazing Charlie Arehart for hosting me on last week’s CFMeetup.

From: Brian Klaas