I've Never Had A Good Story For View-Rendering Helpers In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores a way to package common view-rendering methods in a ColdFusion component....

From: Ben Nadel

Working Code Podcast - Episode 118: Things We Should Be Doing

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about all the things they should be doing; but, which they can't quite motivate to get done....

From: Ben Nadel

Progressively Enhancing a Table with a Web Component

Back nearly a year ago (holy smokes time goes fast), one of my first articles about web components involved building a component to create a paginated/sorted table: Building Table Sorting and Pagination in a Web Component.

From: Raymond Camden

Using Nested Stimulus Controllers With Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel looks at several ways to communicate between nested Stimulus controllers in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel

Not Another CV

People who've been following me for a while will know that a key feature of my site has always been the dynamically generated CV button on the homepage.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Using "return" To Short-Circuit A CFML Template In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the CFReturn tag can be used to short-circuit the execution of a CFML template. This works in both Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee CFML....

From: Ben Nadel

Rendering A Fly-Out Form Panel Using Turbo Frames With Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to transclude a form into a fly-out panel using Hotwire and ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

File Create Time in ColdFusion / CFML

Today I needed to get the time that a file was created from within some CFML code.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Reminder about Web Components and Attributes

After my post yesterday about web component lifecycle events, I had an interesting conversation with Thomas Broyer on Mastodon.

From: Raymond Camden

Interesting Caveat with Web Components and the Event Lifecycle

I've been exploring web components the last few months and as part of that exploration, I've been reading "Web Components in Action" by fellow Adobian Ben Farrell.

From: Raymond Camden

Working Code Podcast - Episode 117: Champions Of Truth

Ben Nadel and the crew recap their Two Truths and a Lie choices and crown a single champion of truth from our listeners....

From: Ben Nadel

Styling Submit Buttons During Form Submission With Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to alter a submit button's appearance and text content using the "data-turbo-submits-with" in Hotwire and ColdFusion....

From: Ben Nadel

Adding a Chart to an Apline.js Application

For a while now my blog queue has had an item in there suggesting I take a look at adding a basic chart to an Alpine.

From: Raymond Camden

Rendering A Persistent Dismissible Banner Using Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to create a persistent dismissible site-wide banner in a Hotwire enhanced ColdFusion application....

From: Ben Nadel

Links For You

Good morning readers! I'm writing this in a hotel room in Tuscaloosa where my wife and I are visiting our son.

From: Raymond Camden

Dynamically Adding Stimulus Controllers To Static Content Using Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel demonstrates that Stimulus controllers can be dynamically applied to static content served up by a ColdFusion server....

From: Ben Nadel

The User Experience (UX) Of Disabled Form Buttons

Ben Nadel discusses the user experience (UX) of disabled form buttons; and why it's a violation of the Robustness Principle....

From: Ben Nadel

Transcluding A Form Into A Turbo Frame Using Hotwire And Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel demonstrates one way to handle post-submission redirects when transcluding a form into another page. This uses Turbo Streams to "visit" multiple content areas of parent page....

From: Ben Nadel

Supporting PDF Embeds in an Eleventy WebC Component

Way back in the old days, in August of 2021, I wrote up an example of adding support for Adobe's PDF Embed API as an Eleventy plugin: "An Adobe PDF Embed Plugin for Eleventy".

From: Raymond Camden

Working Code Podcast - Episode 116: State Of Developer Conferences

Ben Nadel and the crew talk to Brian Rinaldi about the state of developer conferences; and, why post-pandemic attendance appears to be struggling both online and in real life....

From: Ben Nadel

Long-Term Funding, Update #1

As part of Clojurists Together's Long-Term Funding for 2023 I talked about working on clojure-doc.org which I had resurrected a few years ago, as a GitHub Pages project, powered by Cryogen.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View

Long-Term Funding, Update #1

As part of Clojurists Together's Long-Term Funding for 2023 I talked about working on clojure-doc.org which I had resurrected a few years ago, as a GitHub Pages project, powered by Cryogen.

From: Sean Corfield: An Architect's View