Accessing Stimulus Controllers From A Given DOM Element In Hotwire

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to access a Stimulus controller from a given DOM element in Hotwire....

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Building Resilient Feature Flags That "Fail Open" In ColdFusion

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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Associating Submit Buttons With Any Form Using Button Attributes In Native HTML

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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Working Code Podcast - Episode 122: Coding Hot Takes

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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Copying AWS EC2 Tags to EBS Using PowerShell

These days when creating an EC2 instance in the AWS console UI, by default, the tags are duplicated across Elastic Block Service (EBS) and Elastic Network Interface (ENI) attached resources being created.

From: Chris Tierney

Listen For Stimulus Custom Events Outside Of Hotwire

Ben Nadel demonstrates that custom Stimulus events are "native" events; and, can be listened to outside of the Hotwire application....

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Using navigator.sendBeacon() To Publish Analytics Back To ColdFusion

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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Using Public Class Fields To Bind Event Handlers In JavaScript

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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Using A Transient CSS Stylesheet To Remove Scrolling On Body While Modal Is Open

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to temporarily disable scrolling on the body by injecting and then removing a transient CSS stylesheet....

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ColdFusion Summit East 2023 Recap

The 2023 CF Summit East Conference wrapped up yesterday — it was a fun, albeit short, trip. I’m already on a flight back hope; sadly no time for tourist things on this trip (tho my sushi dinner with Minh Vo yesterday was fantastic so I’ll take that as a win).

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Poor Man’s Storage Data Wipe On Windows 10/11

The usual person in the tech industry will inevitably have a storage medium you “must” secure before letting it out of your possession.

From: Chris Tierney

Be Aware of Mura CMS Security Issues

Mura CMS was a popular open-source content management system (CMS) written in ColdFusion.

From: Chris Tierney

Removing A CSS Stylesheet Removes Its Affect On The Document

Ben Nadel demonstrates that removing a CSS stylesheet also removes any CSS affects that it had on the active document....

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CSS overscroll-behavior Only Affects Scroll Containers

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the overscroll-behavior CSS property only affects elements that actually have scrolling content....

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My CF Summit East Schedule

Greetings from the Chicago Airport! I'm currently waiting on my flight that's been delayed several times. This place becomes even more of a zoo every time I'm here. Anyway, assuming they find a way to get me to DC before morning (cross your fingers!), I'll be speaking at the CF Summit East tomorrow.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Working Code Podcast - Episode 121: Ben's Testing Tribulations

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the "what" of testing in programming. This was inspired by a set of tests that seemed to be extremely brittle....

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Conway's Game Of Life In Hotwire And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel implements John Conway's Game of Life using Hotwire and ColdFusion....

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Thought Experiment: Creating Single Use-Case Components In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel considers a thought experiment in which each individual action in an application is modeled as its own "Use Case" component in ColdFusion....

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Getting FusionReactor User Experience Monitoring (UEM) To Play Nicely With Content Security Policy (CSP) In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how he got FusionReactor's User Experience Monitoring (UEM) to play nicely with his ColdFusion site's Content Security Policy (CSP)....

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