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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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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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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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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Working Code Podcast - Episode 120: Freelancing With Nolan Erck

Ben Nadel and the crew talk to Nolan Erck about how to start and maintain a successful software consulting career....

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A Bit Of Optimism: This Might Not Work

Ben Nadel shares an inspiring bit of discussion between Simon Sinek and Seth Godin on embracing failure in order to express love....

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Trying To Get ChatGPT 4 To Solve My Hotwire Form Submission Problem

Ben Nadel tries to get ChatGPT to solve a problem that he is having with Hotwire form submissions....

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Disabling Turbo Drive In A Subdirectory Of Your ColdFusion Application

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to disable Hotwire Turbo Drive on all links that point to a given subdirectory within a ColdFusion application....

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Russian Doll Content Wrapping With CFSaveContent In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use Russian Doll content nesting with the CFSaveContent tag to compose data in ColdFusion....

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Working Code Podcast - Episode 119: Potluck

Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics from independent consulting to technical debt to common sense to Bloom filters....

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Incrementally Applying Hotwire To An Existing ColdFusion Application

Ben Nadel describes a plan for incrementally applying Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus) to an existing ColdFusion application....

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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....

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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....

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