AWS Console Change Password Screen Should Display Policy

This error when trying to change your AWS console password, 'Either user is not authorized to perform iam:ChangePassword or entered password does not comply with account password policy set by administrator' is a result of poor UX design.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

How to configure your default cfengine on commandbox

Thanks to Brad Wood for refreshing my brain about how to configure the default cfengine on commandbox.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Add comma's to number in javascript

This is a utility function I've had around for formatting numbers into comma separated strings

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Spring Boot Testing Basics: How to Unit Test & Integration Test REST Controllers

In this article, we're going to dive into the world of testing in Spring Boot, specifically looking at unit tests and integration tests.

From: Dan Vega

Vue 3 Composition API: Ref vs Reactive

One question I keep hearing over and over is what method should I use to declare reactive data in the Vue 3 Composition API? In this article, I explain what ref() and reactive() are and try to answer that question.

From: Dan Vega

Job Posting: Looking for CF Administration and server specialist

Hey folks, we continue to grow and expand here at CFWT.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Start using Vue 3 in a new project right now

In this tutorial, I walk you through how to add Vue 3 to a new project.

From: Dan Vega

CodeMash 2020 Recap

A recap of the conference CodeMash 2020 as both an attendee and a speaker.

From: Dan Vega

How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.

From: Erik Bernhardsson

Vue3: Smaller, Faster & Stronger. CodeMash 2020

This post is a collection of resources for my presentation at CodeMash 2020.

From: Dan Vega

Happy New Releases!

Wrapping Up 2019It's been a while since I blogged about the projects I maintain so I figured New Year's Eve 2019 was a good time to provide an update!

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

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