
Another Update to my Slideshow Web Component - JavaScript Support
Last month I shared a simple web component I built to embed slideshows onto web pages.
From: Raymond Camden
Last month I shared a simple web component I built to embed slideshows onto web pages.
From: Raymond Camden
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the recent wave of layoffs in the tech world; and what you can do to become more resilient....
From: Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel starts to explore Stimulus, rendering a UTC millisecond value in the user local timezone using Hotwire and Lucee CFML....
From: Ben Nadel
I was buried deep in some side thread in an on-line forum, and someone asked me what a typical day was like for me.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a term that I hear used a lot, and the concept seems pretty simple. Yet it is too frequently misused in place of prototype by junior developers and non developers (management).
If you're using FusionReactor, note that a new 9.2.1 update was released last week, Jan 31, with a couple of bug fixes--including one where you may need to add a JVM arg to prevent an error, in a certain case as I will discuss. For more, read on. [More]
TLDR; the URL for joining the CFML Slack workspace and channels has changed.
A week or so ago (time is so weird these days), I gave a presentation on Eleventy's WebC plugin.
From: Raymond Camden
Ben Nadel explores the use of Turbo Streams to dynamically update views in a Hotwire and ColdFusion application....
From: Ben Nadel
Ok, so I realize this will make me sound old (spoiler, I am old), but I swear I feel like my town (Lafayette, LA) has about ten thousand or so storage businesses.
From: Raymond Camden
Ben Nadel and the crew respond to listener questions ranging from alternate realities to dead body disposal....
From: Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel builds a simple slide show with Hotwire Turbo Drive and Lucee CFML. This defers all dynamic rendering to the ColdFusion server....
From: Ben Nadel
I've been blogging about Cloudinary here for the past few months, and I wanted to share a quick tip.
From: Raymond Camden
We need to do away with the term senior developer in the software industry. Here is why I propose we start using the term Master Developer.
Ben Nadel discovers that the onRequestStart() and onRequest() ColdFusion application event handlers get called in Lucee CFML even if the requested template doesn't exist....
From: Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel creates a Dockerized ColdFusion and Hotwire playground in which he can explore the Hotwire framework from Basecamp....
From: Ben Nadel
Whenever I think I shouldn't post something because I'm covering something completely obvious, despite the fact that I missed it, I always find at least one other person who was also a bit slow in either remembering a basic tip or figuring out the simple stuff.
From: Raymond Camden
In this tutorial you will learn how to use one of the new features in Jakarta EE 10 in a Spring Boot 3 application.
From: Dan Vega
Are you still running ColdFusion 2018? Did you know that its end-of-life is July 13, 2023? That's the date that "core" support ends--meaning, no more updates from Adobe after that, not even security fixes.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've been selected as a speaker at Devnexus 2023, the long-running professional developer conference held in Atlanta.
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the strategies that we use when we have to learn totally new thing (and how humbling that experience can be)....
From: Ben Nadel
If you're a user of the wonderful FusionReactor monitoring and observability solution (for ColdFusion, Lucee, Java servers and more), you may delight in hearing news of a new FusionReactor (FR) version.
Here's something new to beware if you may run the Oracle JDK installer for the recently updated Java 11 or 17, whether on Windows, macOS, or via RPM: the new Oracle jdk installer WILL REMOVE any older previous versions of that JVM version created by previous JDK installers of the same major version....
Ben Nadel explores the impact of input order when hashing values in ColdFusion....
From: Ben Nadel