Chris G

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• Using Pusher WebSockets To Show Progress During Page Unload / Redirect In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Nov 5, 2020 at 2:53 PM

  Definitely very interesting stuff! The videos (at least for me) make the information feel more like a conversation, which is a really great experience in my opinion. Always appreciated!... read more »

• Using Pusher WebSockets To Show Progress During Page Unload / Redirect In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Nov 5, 2020 at 2:32 PM

  Good stuff! I wonder how many of us developers end up looking like superheros because you've been so generous with your knowledge sharing. I'd definitely consider myself one of those beneficiaries! Also, I always (ALWAYS) love it when you include a video. Thanks for going the extra mile, esp... read more »

• The Power Of Cascading Tag Attributes In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.43

  Posted on Nov 3, 2020 at 10:36 AM

  I had no idea this.tag was a thing! Mind blown! Super useful! Thanks for this! Now, I'm wondering if this is just a Lucee thing or whether it also works in ACF.... read more »

• A Closer Look At Error Handling During Parallel Array Iteration In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 29, 2020 at 12:35 PM

  This is interesting but isn't what I'd expect either. Does this seem right to you? I can't think why it would be harmful except that it's consuming resources unnecessarily by processing the remainder of the array. And I can't think of any examples where it might be useful to do so. Or even h... read more »

• The Elvis / Null Coalescing Operator Can Sometimes Replace The Safe Navigation Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Sep 7, 2020 at 12:45 PM

  I've forever wished I could use JS syntax for this... foo.bar.baz || "Null value fallback" I hadn't considered using the elvis operator to mimic this behavior. Cleaver. Unfortunately, it does not work in Adobe CF. Another (useful) example of where Lucee shines.... read more »

• ColdFusion Components (CFC) vs. ColdFusion Closures Performance Exploration In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Jul 27, 2020 at 11:44 AM

  In reference to the chainable API, which I think is very useful and cool, why do you use the variables scope in the init function rather than this ? Is this just your preference or is there some advantage I'm not aware of? Asking for a friend.... read more »

• Using CFDocument To Save InVision Prototypes As Interactive PDFs In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Jul 1, 2020 at 1:12 PM

  I have just one thing to say to this - 😱 WHOA 😱!... read more »

• Using A Tracer Cookie To Watch For Browser Download-Prompts In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Jun 28, 2020 at 12:53 PM

  Pretty cool. Would work well with a loading.gif also, which I'd prefer over the modal so that you can download multiple reports without extra tabs.... read more »

• Scope Traversal Behavior With Undefined Function Arguments In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Jun 25, 2020 at 1:00 PM

  @Ben, @Andrew, Thanks for the reminder. My mental model for closures needed this refresher.... read more »

• Scope Traversal Behavior With Undefined Function Arguments In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Jun 24, 2020 at 12:12 PM

  I guess I'm a little confused. I always thought member functions setup a closure. In fact, looking at the documentation for array.each() and struct.each() they both seem to back this up... call the given UDF/Closure with every value in the array. array.each( closure=function, paral... read more »

• Showing The Affects Of Database Index Structure On Membership Table JOIN Performance In MySQL 5.6.37

  Posted on Jun 9, 2020 at 11:26 AM

  I learn so much about EXPLAIN through your articles. These are the finer points of SQL which are easy to ignore, but so useful to bring into the light. Thanks Ben!... read more »

• Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020

  Posted on Apr 13, 2020 at 3:49 PM

  @Jason it requires Lucee. See Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13... read more »

• Executing Command-Line Processes From A Working Directory Using ProcessBuilder In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Apr 12, 2020 at 2:20 PM

  TBH, it's going to take me a couple more times through this to entirely grep what's going on, but pretty cool (advance-level) stuff here! Running the unitsOfWork in parallel is pretty clever! 🤯... read more »

• Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020

  Posted on Apr 11, 2020 at 1:58 PM

  Ben - this post is masterful! You've succeeded in getting me excited again too. I've been loving all your Lucee posts, especially as I migrate my app from ACF to Lucee. To see all the value adds listed in one place...the things we tend to take for granted put in print so we can re-appreciate... read more »

• Now Using utf8mb4 To Enable Emoji In My Comments

  Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 12:54 PM

  It showed up on my laptop, but it's a weird chip on my phone...which is the device I used to comment. Strange. Here's a screenshot of it working... https://screencast.com/t/T4bdQmQMJk81... read more »

• Now Using utf8mb4 To Enable Emoji In My Comments

  Posted on Mar 26, 2020 at 10:39 AM

  Yay🎉🥳 ... Hmmm didn't like the party hat emoji?... read more »

• Tag Islands And CFScript-Based Tags Bring Perfection To ColdFusion In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Mar 25, 2020 at 10:05 AM

  I just haven't used it yet, but I'm also very excited about it!... read more »

• As A Man, I Can Be A Better Example Than I Have Been

  Posted on Mar 23, 2020 at 10:02 AM

  Someone had to point this out to me actually. I didn't see it myself at first. I was recently watching a VHS tapes of my much younger twenty-something self and was horrified...at the crass, tasteless jokes I made...at my behavior in general. I guess I thought I was cool. I was deeply asham... read more »

• Annotating An Image Point Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Mar 5, 2020 at 3:21 PM

  @Ben They're super sneaky, hiding them in plain sight like that! Looking forward to the next evolution :)... read more »

• Annotating An Image Point Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Mar 5, 2020 at 2:22 PM

  where/how do you find these hidden (to me) gems such as the special "points[]" notation? Very cool. Also, my instinct would have been to create a new image with the same dimensions as the original (transparent png more than likely) and add all the points to that, then absolutely po... read more »