Ben Nadel

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Nadel

• You Can Render Anything In Angular

  Posted on Nov 23, 2022 at 7:17 PM

  @Hassam, ❤️ Very cool ❤️ I really appreciate you putting that together. It took me a minute or two, looking at the code, to see what was going on. The Hooks approach to building React application really requires me to turn my brain a bit inside out. I see that you have three different ho... read more »

• "Enterprise" Is Not A Dirty Word

  Posted on Nov 23, 2022 at 10:49 AM

  @HB, Thanks, I'll take a look at the article you shared.... read more »

• You Can Render Anything In Angular

  Posted on Nov 21, 2022 at 7:55 PM

  @Hassam, I've only played with earlier versions of React that had life-cycle methods (like componentWillMount() and stuff). In that case, it feels like a relatively similar approach. When it comes to "new" React with Hooks , I don't know how it would work. I feel like yo... read more »

• Using A Closure To Encapsulate CFThread Execution And Error Handling In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 17, 2022 at 2:20 PM

  @Dan, I think we actually had this very same conversation back in 2015 🤣 I'm not sure how much of that is still an issue. And, if you're spawning your threads inside a ColdFusion component, then I think most of the values referenced will either be in the local scope of the calling functio... read more »

• A Database Column For "Date Updated" Has No Semantic Meaning, Nor Should It

  Posted on Nov 15, 2022 at 11:28 AM

  @Ian, While I love the idea of not doing a "hard delete", I do still want to move the "deleted" row out of the table. What I have found is that with "soft deletes", it's harder to make indexes that can enforce uniqueness . What I would love to do is creat... read more »

• A Database Column For "Date Updated" Has No Semantic Meaning, Nor Should It

  Posted on Nov 15, 2022 at 10:53 AM

  @Scott, I've dabbled a bit with an "audit log" in an application many years ago; but, I haven't tried it since. That said, I have added many piece-meal log tables to track some "delete actions", mostly - to your point - so the Support team can point to something and say... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 14, 2022 at 11:15 AM

  @Mark, Changing infrastructure is a fascinating topic unto itself. It's one of those things where you think the "abstractions" mean that you can do things quietly, behind the scenes, and your application developers don't have to know about it. But, changing infrastructure inevita... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 13, 2022 at 10:33 AM

  @Ben, Yeah, exactly. We really just didn't have the expertise to build the new system in the way we built it. We were solving lots of problems at the same time.... read more »

• Generating Fallback Avatars Using CFImage And ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM

  One thing I forgot to include in the post is some code to list out all the fonts that the JVM knows about: <cfscript> fontFamilies = graphicsEnvironment = createObject( "java", "java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment" ) .getLocalGraphicsEnvironment() .getAvailableFontFamil... read more »

• Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Nov 12, 2022 at 10:53 AM

  @Peter, The POSIX character class that I've definitely used in the past is [:punct:] for punctuation. That one really represents a lot of individual characters. Most of the other abbreviations seem like they are actually longer than the characters they represent 😆... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 12, 2022 at 10:48 AM

  @Ben, First off, great name 😉 second, I agree. There are always exceptions to the rule. Even within the span of my own company - InVision - we did a complete rewrite of the front-end (v1 -> v2) going from separate jQuery-based pages to an AngularJS single page application (SPA). An... read more »

• Proxying Gravatar Images For Better Avatar Caching In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 11, 2022 at 9:09 PM

  Now that I'm proxying the Gravatar images, I've been noodling on create per-user custom fallback avatars for people who don't have a Gravatar image: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4354-generating-fallback-avatars-using-cfimage-and-coldfusion.htm This uses ColdFusion's image functionali... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 11, 2022 at 8:24 PM

  I haven't read through the comments yet, but here's the Hacker News link if anyone is curious -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33523032... read more »

• Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Nov 11, 2022 at 6:18 PM

  @James, I haven't tried this, but I'm wondering if it would show up in the payload from a getApplicationMetadata() call? That said, there are a number of things I would love to have on a per- Component basis. Not least of which is something like localmode="modern" in Lucee... read more »

• Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Nov 11, 2022 at 6:14 PM

  @Peter, I'll have to plead ignorance on the POSIX vs Apache ORO engine stuff. I honestly don't really even know what POSIX is exactly. But, I'm pretty sure the ColdFusion docs - maybe years ago - talked about the RegEx patterns as being POSIX... or maybe it was simply POSIX compatible ... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 10, 2022 at 6:09 PM

  @Mike, Thanks! Someone just showed me on Twitter - so random what gets traction. But, I'm happy someone found some value in this.... read more »

• Using Abstract Classes As Dependency-Injection Tokens With "providedIn" Semantics In Angular 9.1.9

  Posted on Nov 10, 2022 at 1:18 PM

  @Ken, No worries :)... read more »

• Only Solve One New Problem At A Time

  Posted on Nov 10, 2022 at 10:46 AM

  @Tyler, If I can give you a warning, my company is in the 5th-year of a ground-up rewrite! 😱 I beg of you, do things incrementally!! But, in all seriousness, good luck to your team, I hope things go smoothly.... read more »

• Using Abstract Classes As Dependency-Injection Tokens With "providedIn" Semantics In Angular 9.1.9

  Posted on Nov 9, 2022 at 10:33 PM

  @Ken, Check later down in the article - the snippet just has a portion of the code; but, there is a full example down at the bottom of the article that (hopefully) ties it together.... read more »

• Proxying Gravatar Images For Better Avatar Caching In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 9, 2022 at 12:34 PM

  I've update the post to include a section on URL rewriting . After some of you alls feedback, I decided to revisit my existing URL rewriting rules; and, it seems that I already had enough in place to make rewriting to a dynamic .jpg image happen. Check out the last section above.... read more »