Ben Nadel

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• Why I Use TINYINT Columns Instead Of BIT Columns For Boolean Data In A MySQL Application

  Posted on Jan 26, 2022 at 2:16 PM

  @Jivan, Thank you for providing more appropriate links 💪 I don't think I've ever heard of NBD storage - I'll have to look that up.... read more »

• Download A GitHub Gist As JSON Using A Proxy End-Point In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 26, 2022 at 10:54 AM

  @All, It seems that root-level Gist IDs work for newer gist values ; but, older gists (with shorter IDs, less than 32-characters) don't work that way. In order to get both the older and newer gists to work, I had to change the URL structure from: https://gist.github.com/{ gistID }.jso... read more »

• 100% Of BenNadel.com Traffic Now Flows Through The CloudFlare CDN (For Free)

  Posted on Jan 25, 2022 at 1:59 PM

  It might be worth mentioning that CloudFlare automatically applies caching headers based on the file-extension in the request. As such, it automatically caches .js and .css files but won't cache .htm or .cfm files. You can see the default behavior here: https://developers... read more »

• Replacing jQuery (110kb) With Umbrella JS (8kb)

  Posted on Jan 25, 2022 at 12:42 PM

  @Andrey, Yeah, it's not exactly a drop-in replacement. So, if you have a lot of plugins, it can be a challenge to upgrade. It's also not easy to mix-and-match Umbrella JS objects with jQuery objects since they have different internal mechanisms. To be clear, I don't dislike jQuery at all ... read more »

• Download A GitHub Gist As JSON Using A Proxy End-Point In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 25, 2022 at 11:04 AM

  @Aaron, Ok, I locked the cfparam tag for this down - changed the type to regex and added a pattern : <cfscript> param name="request.attributes.gistID" type="regex" pattern="[a-fA-F0-9]+" ; </cfscript> I love how freaking flexible ... read more »

• Download A GitHub Gist As JSON Using A Proxy End-Point In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 24, 2022 at 10:21 PM

  @Aaron, Ahh, that's what it was. Yeah, it's IP related. I wasn't sure if I wanted to include IPs. My big concern was that a spammer could find an email address for a user, and then use their approval to start posting messages. Though, maybe I should wait until that problem happens before... read more »

• Download A GitHub Gist As JSON Using A Proxy End-Point In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 24, 2022 at 9:36 PM

  @Aaron, I think you should just be able to have the single value, {32} . Hmm, I thought I approved all your comments - not sure why you needed to be moderated again. Maybe I pushed the wrong button - still working out all the kinks.... read more »

• Download A GitHub Gist As JSON Using A Proxy End-Point In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 24, 2022 at 9:05 PM

  @Aaron, Yes, great point! And, I think you're right on the RegEx - that should be sufficient for what I've seen in the Gist IDs. I'll make sure to get that in there tomorrow morning 💪 #TeamWorkForTheWin... read more »

• Creating jQuery Function Parity With Umbrella JS

  Posted on Jan 24, 2022 at 11:40 AM

  I just added another simple one for some refactoring that I'm doing: u.prototype.prependTo = function( target ) { u( target ).prepend( this ); return( this ); };... read more »

• Mixing Promises And async / await For Caching Purposes In JavaScript

  Posted on Jan 23, 2022 at 11:09 AM

  @Payal, Glad you enjoyed :D... read more »

• You Can Now Edit Your Comments On This Blog Using SHA1PRNG Secure Tokens

  Posted on Jan 22, 2022 at 2:13 PM

  Ok, I think I finally got this working 💪 I had to add a pendingCommentID column to the edit-token table. Now, I'm always creating an edit token, regardless of comment moderation. And, when I approve the comment, the edit token is "upgraded" to be for the approved comment. Here... read more »

• You Can Now Edit Your Comments On This Blog Using SHA1PRNG Secure Tokens

  Posted on Jan 22, 2022 at 11:25 AM

  Ok, I've disabled the ability to edit comments while I do a little refactoring under the hood.... read more »

• Replacing jQuery (110kb) With Umbrella JS (8kb)

  Posted on Jan 21, 2022 at 5:30 PM

  @Jakub, Excellent catch! Thank you for that - the post has been updated.... read more »

• You Can Now Edit Your Comments On This Blog Using SHA1PRNG Secure Tokens

  Posted on Jan 21, 2022 at 12:07 PM

  I've had a couple of false-starts with the post-moderation alterations to the editing feature. But, I always run into a problem when thinking about how to associate the token back to the comment and the requesting-user after the comment has been moderated. Technically, it's not a problem, if... read more »

• Mixing Promises And async / await For Caching Purposes In JavaScript

  Posted on Jan 20, 2022 at 7:32 PM

  Any time - always a pleasure to talk about this stuff.... read more »

• Mixing Promises And async / await For Caching Purposes In JavaScript

  Posted on Jan 20, 2022 at 5:00 PM

  @Charles, As far as the "order of execution", we have to be careful. If you have multiple parallel asynchronous HTTP requests, there's no guarantee that they will return in order. And actually, in my demo, the pre-caching may return out of order . But, since I'm only ever render... read more »

• Mixing Promises And async / await For Caching Purposes In JavaScript

  Posted on Jan 20, 2022 at 2:52 PM

  @Charles, In your readProducts() method, you don't actually need the new Promise() . Since you're taking the http Observable and converting it into a Promise , you don't need to then wrap it in another Promise . You could just do: async readProducts() { const apiUrl = `${APP_C... read more »

• I'm Dropping IE11 Support, What JavaScript Features Can I Use Now?

  Posted on Jan 19, 2022 at 5:20 PM

  I'm considering adding JavaScript transpiling back into the mix. I had tried to ship raw async / await , class , and other tokens directly to the browser. But, now, I'm starting to see a lot of errors for unexpected tokens and (unknown) Script Error , which I think has to do with the ... read more »

• Creating jQuery Function Parity With Umbrella JS

  Posted on Jan 19, 2022 at 2:11 PM

  @John, Great question! You are correct that what you are seeing here is really just a mix-n-match of existing functionality in the Umbrella JS library. Really, the only thing that I've had to write from scratch is the jQuery.ajax() functionality. I've replaced those calls with my own, ... read more »

• Replacing jQuery (110kb) With Umbrella JS (8kb)

  Posted on Jan 18, 2022 at 11:41 AM

  @Boco, Ha ha, it's definitely a "death by a 1,000 cuts" issue on the web today. Right now, I am just trying to make small, incremental changes to try and improve things. No one change is enough; but, hopefully after many, many changes, things will start to get better 💪... read more »