ColdFusion Posts Around the World
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel starts exploring HTMX extensions in a ColdFusion application, looking at the getSelectors() and onEvent() methods....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the :scope pseudo-class in .querySelectorAll() to target the host element in a CSS selector....
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Ben Nadel explores the use of hx-preserve to persist elements across page navigation in an HTMX and ColdFusion boosted application....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the "next " and the "previous " use a depth-first node traversal algorithm in HTMX....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the fetch() API will propagate HTTP methods during a redirect in JavaScript; but only for non-GET/POST requests....
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Ben Nadel takes his first look at using Alpine.js with HTMX in a ColdFusion application. The two can play well together; but, caveats exist....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that inverting your thinking about delimited lists can make parsing easier in some cases in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to filter HX-Trigger events, returned from the ColdFusion server, in HTMX....
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Ben Nadel builds an HTMX extension to conditionally disable hx-boost based on link patterns and filter callbacks....
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Ben Nadel discovers that undefined values in JavaScript do not soft equal false or 0. Which makes expressions involving the safe navigation / optional chaining operator much easier.... ...
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Ben Nadel tries to articulate why he is happy with GET and POST in ColdFusion; and doesn't feel any need for PUT, PATCH, and DELETE to be supported in HTML.... ...
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Ben Nadel translates the sample Contacts App in the Hypermedia Systems book into a ColdFusion application context....
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Ben Nadel considers the mechanics of function hoisting; and how it can be used to polyfill functions in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel considers making short-hand aliases for encodeForHtml(), encodeForHtmlAttribute(), and encodeForUrl() in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel considers writing variadic functions in ColdFusion through the lens of the "Worse is Better" school of thought....
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Ben Nadel explores variadic function mechanics in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee CFML and finds approaches that work in both engines....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to perform tiered sorting on an array of data structures in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the safe navigation operator to propagate possibly null values down through method calls in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that dashes can be used in custom tag identifiers in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the button's "form" attribute to make stand alone buttons actionable in native HTML; and how that can make styling the page with CSS easier.... ...
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Ben Nadel looks at various techniques for testing whether or not your code is running in a CFThread context in Adobe ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel illustrates a bug in the rest operator implementation in Adobe ColdFusion (including the 2025 Beta)....
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Ben Nadel validates that the browser issues a GET request in response to the default location() behavior in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel reviews the book, Hypermedia Systems, by Carson Gross, Adam Stepinski, and Deniz Akşimşek. It's a very compelling book that discusses hypermedia, htmx, and the use of HTML as a unified interface for web application development.... ...
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Ben and Ryan talk to Dan Short about career paths, switching to management, and the benefits of staying in the Individual Contributor role....
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Ben and Ryan talk to Shawn Gorrell about running productive teams with AI....
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Ben and Ryan talk about what they're learning and experimenting with....
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Ben and Ryan talk to Charvi Dhoot and Brian Sappey about how ColdFusion is managed, created, and consumed as a product....
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Ben and Ryan take time to reflect on the things they're thankful for....
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Ben and Ryan to talk Dakota Clum about the pros and cons of managed hosting....
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Ben and Ryan talk to Mark Takata about ColdFusion 2025 and being good representatives of the ColdFusion community....
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Ben and Ryan talk about random technology topics....
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Ben and Ryan talk to Justin Scott about his cryptography presentation at CFSummit 2024; and about the security landscape in web application development.... ...
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Ben and Ryan kick off their podcast series - the Ben & Ryan Show - reflecting on their experience at CFSummit 2024....
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Ben Nadel uses the XOR Boolean operator in ColdFusion to assert to existence of optional arguments during method invocation....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk naming conventions for components within a web application....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that partial component paths can be used in ColdFusion user-defined functions (UDF) argument and return types....
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Ben Nadel explores overloading of the error.extendedInfo property as a data URL in a ColdFusion application....
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Ben Nadel and the crew play a game in which each statement contains a falsehood. The challenge is to figure out which aspect is false; and how to correct it.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to traverse the metadata inheritance chain in ColdFusion; and how to flatten the metadata into a more consumable structure.... ...
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk Large Language Models (LLMs) and their impact on sites like Stack Overflow....
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Ben Nadel looks at collocating .gitignore files with the files that they control in order to make code easier to find and easier to delete....
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Ben Nadel creates a ColdFusion utility to extract JSON configuration data from an InVision V6 document export....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how InVision V6 exported prototypes and boards can be effortlessly uploaded to Cloudflare Pages for free hosting....
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Ben Nadel demonstrate a ColdFusion bug regarding implicit struct and array notation that can create unsafe parallel code execution....
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Ben Nadel publishes a free online edition of his book, Feature Flags: Transform Your Product Development Workflow....
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Ben Nadel shares many of the feature and experiment demo videos that he made in his time at InVision....
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Ben Nadel re-thinks the aesthetics and ergonomics of post-back URLs in ColdFusion; and changes his strategy going forward....
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Ben Nadel reviews Will Guidara's book, Unreasonable Hospitality - a truly wonderful book....
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Ben Nadel uses the SpeechSynthesis API to build a small box breathing guided meditation in Alpine.js....
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Ben Nadel continues to explore the collocation of view-specific files, this time putting ColdFusion components right next to his CFML files in a ColdFusion application.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "row constructor" syntax in MySQL for comparing multiple values simultaneously....
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Ben Nadel reviews the Mastering Postgres video course by Aaron Francis....
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Ben Nadel looks at adding keyboard shortcuts to Incident Commander using Alpine.js....
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Ben Nadel reviews the book, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility by Sarah Horton and David Sloan....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to sort an array of mixed numeric and numeric-like text values (such as 4K and 3M) in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel looks at associating form input controls to ColdFusion validation errors using a simple, opt-in experience....
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Ben Nadel explores the AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 Signature V4 authorization algorithm in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how the CSS gap property can be used to effectively manage margins in website content....
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Ben Nadel explores the optional password protection that he's add to Incident Commander, his ColdFusion incident triage application....
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Ben Nadel explores the idea of storing encrypted passwords in ColdFusion in cases where decrypting a password is an application requirement....
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Ben Nadel creates a JWT-inspired light-weight encoder for his secure cookies in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel explores the idea of using Alpine.js to format date/time values on the client-side in the user's local timezone....
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Ben Nadel explores various techniques for counting the occurrences of a string or regular expression pattern in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel shares his Incident Commander app, for triaging incidents, which he's rebuilt in Adobe ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the fileGetMimeType() function can be used to inspect the file type / mime-type of a file in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel ports his .fromNow() relative date formatting method from Angular in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that you can inspect the form upload file field in ColdFusion to get access to the temporary location of the uploaded file.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the VARCHAR(length) limit in MySQL refers to the number of characters, not the number of bytes....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use JSoup's Safelist to access information about which tags and attributes are going to be removed during the sanitization process in ColdFusion.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use JSoup's Safelist and Cleaner classes to sanitize untrusted HTML in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates a bug in the safe-navigation operator in Adobe ColdFusion that swallows errors....
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Ben Nadel and the crew reflect on recording 200 episodes of the show and decide to take a break through the end of 2024....
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Ben Nadel shares his feature flags playground app, complete with video commentary and source code on GitHub....
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Ben Nadel looks at Window Functions in MySQL for the first time, applying ROW_NUMBER() and DENSE_RANK() to a common table expression....
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Ben Nadel reviews the High Performance SQLite video course by Aaron Francis. A high quality course for SQLite; or anyone interested in SQL....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the practice of co-opting country top level domains (TLDs)....
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Ben Nadel adds memory leak detection to his ColdFusion feature flags playground app. This leak detection runs in the onRequestEnd() event method after every request.... ...
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Ben Nadel explores the use of collocated CFML, JavaScript, and Less CSS files in his ColdFusion multi-page application (MPA) architecture....
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Ben Nadel heartily agrees with Dave Farley's notion that high quality code is code that's safe and easy to change....
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Ben Nadel makes a case for why Adobe ColdFusion should allow the var keyword to be used outside of function bodies....
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Ben Nadel creates a CSV (comma separated values) to CTE (common table expression) transform in Angular 18....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics from job promotions, AI training, team alignment, and reconnecting with one's self....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the canonicalize() function to render emoji in email subject lines in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the canonicalize() function to render emoji characters in a ColdFusion page response....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about cases in our work in which the maximum effort isn't worth the potential outcome....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that the for-loop can have a dynamically assigned increment that changes on every loop iteration....
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Ben Nadel builds a Lorem Ipsum text generator with ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel explores the array sorting error, Comparison method violates its general contract, that he was getting in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the strong bonds created during intense experiences. And, whether or not we can create those same bonds without suffering.... ...
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