Ben Nadel and the crew talk about documenting design decisions; and, about keeping those documents up-to-date over time....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that multiple ColdFusion custom tags can be imported under the same prefix even if they are in different directories....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that dashed and name-spaced attributes can be passed into ColdFusion custom tags....
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Ben Nadel considers whether he should start his next project with Hotwire or Angular. Both have benefits and drawbacks....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics; but, mostly let Ben go on and on about the subjective nature of programming....
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Ben Nadel starts hosting Google Fonts locally in order to move towards GDPR compliance....
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Ben Nadel shares part of an interview with DHH on the beautiful freedom that server-side programming gives us as developers....
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Ben Nadel explores ways in which to handle 401 Unauthorized responses in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application; and, how to handle it in a Turbo Frame context....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk trying to stay up-to-date on everything that is happening in the web development industry....
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Ben Nadel takes comfort in John Gall's law on building complex systems. And why starting simple isn't just practical, it's the only way to be successful....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about how to be a negative 10x engineer by wasting time and wreaking havoc with large documents and massive meetings....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to create custom Turbo Stream actions that allow only portions of the template to be extracted and applied to the live page....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to access a Stimulus controller from a given DOM element in Hotwire....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to code resilient feature flag logic so that features can "fail open" at the end of development in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that any button can submit any form, regardless of where it is on the page, by using the form attribute....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about using 1Password Secretes Automation, building sites in React JSX, and missing IE11 guard rails....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that custom Stimulus events are "native" events; and, can be listened to outside of the Hotwire application....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the navigator.sendBeacon() method to publish analytics data efficiently and predictably back to the ColdFusion server....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that Fat-Arrow functions can be used to define Class methods in JavaScript (by specifying them as public class properties)....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to temporarily disable scrolling on the body by injecting and then removing a transient CSS stylesheet....
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