Ben Nadel reflects on several months of architecting his ColdFusion data access layer (DAL) to return Arrays (of Structs), not Queries....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics that enter Ben's mind....
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Ben Nadel looks at switching from the iOS Numeric keyboard to the Text keyboard by dynamically changing the inputmode of the Input control....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion returns NULL dates as NULL values when using the returnType="Array" behavior in the CFQuery tag....
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Ben Nadel fixes a character encoding bug in his ColdFusion code by including the charset argument in his fileRead() function call....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the CFCamp ColdFusion conference in Munich, Germany....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk why finishing a project feels so hard; and, what we can do to get our projects across the finish line....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in the wake of Apple's new Vision Pro release....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to compact an array in ColdFusion. That is, to remove the undefined values / indices....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about what it's like to start building Dig Deep Fitness from scratch. And, how to keep progress moving forward without going down rabbit holes....
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Ben Nadel leans on Dr. Abraham Verghese, and his TEDx Talk, in order to help explain how he feels about showing up every day to work on a legacy platform....
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Ben Nadel creates a database-driven scheduled task system in ColdFusion for his Dig Deep Fitness application....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the first few chapters of The Phoenix Project, our latest book club book....
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Ben Nadel shares the details of the magic link / passwordless login system that he's built in ColdFusion...
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Ben Nadel considers using nested CFLock tags in order to synchronize a background data cleanup process in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel celebrates the 16th annual Regular Expression (RegEx) Day! An ongoing tribute to the unbridled power of pattern matching!...
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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....
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Ben Nadel builds a simple but powerful dependency injection (DI) framework as a code kata in ColdFusion....
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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....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates a four-sided positioning bug for buttons in Firefox. And, how to use CSS Flexbox as a work-around....
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