ColdFusion Posts Around the World
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at how to implement Service objects in the CFWheels ColdFusion framework....
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Ben Nadel creates an Alpine.js pixel art exploration....
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Ben Nadel explores Sortable.js as a way to create effortless drag-and-drop experiences on the web....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use two's complement to allow Adobe ColdFusion to cast FFFFFFFF to a Java signed int....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion can seamlessly access struct keys that contain dots (while other CFML engines require bracket-notation).... ...
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Ben Nadel shares his Adobe ColdFusion 2025 hackathon project: "Sitter Snacks", a food menu system for dog sitters and baby sitters....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates one way to work around a namespaced Model bug in the CFWheels ORM when pulling back nested resources in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates a dumpModel() UDF that he uses in his CFWheels ColdFusion application to reduce the noise in a CFDump....
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Ben Nadel isolates and reproduces an imagePaste() bug in Lucee CFML....
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Ben Nadel explores various ways to output nested data from a JOIN-based query object in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion 2025 can now load Java classes from an explicit set of JAR files....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates various ways to render QR codes using the Zxing library in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to represent an RGBA color as a single, 32-bit integer using inputBaseN() in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to define and consume CSS utility classes in the CFDocument tag in ColdFusion / Lucee CFML....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that forms can be submitted to new browser tabs; and how this creates an implicit "choice" whenever we override the native form submissions in a web application.... ...
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Ben Nadel looks at using the ZXing Java library to render 1D (one dimensional) barcodes in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel creates an hx-event extension in HTMX which will emit a custom event based on the hx-trigger event bindings....
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Ben Nadel considers the functionality requirements of a well crafted modal window in the context of an HTMX web application. Modal window are easy to do; but, the are incredibly hard to do correctly.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how a no-content URL can be used to snapshot the DOM for history API management in HTMX and ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel looks at the API reference passed to HTMX extension authors in the init() method. This is separate from the public API exposed on the HTMX object.... ...
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Ben Nadel sanity checks what happens when we remove DOM nodes outside of the HTMX life-cycle (and whether or not HTMX knows about these changes)....
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Ben Nadel sanity-checks overwriting an arguments value assignment in ColdFusion. And, comes up with a pattern that works nicely in CFWheels models.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to respond with JavaScript script tags in an HTMX and ColdFusion response to dynamically run one-off scripts in response to user interactions.... ...
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that null / undefined values can be passed to most ColdFusion string functions; and they'll be treated like empty strings....
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Ben Nadel explores the user of the stale-while-revalidate Cache-Control header in an HTMX and ColdFusion application to improve perceived performance.... ...
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Ben Nadel looks at creating a keyboard shortcut extension in HTMX and ColdFusion, allowing links to be triggered directly by key commands....
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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....
Ben Nadel
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....
Ben Nadel
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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