Chris G

Recent Blog Comments By Chris G

• Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Much Earlier In My Web Development Career

  Posted on Apr 24, 2019 at 11:19 AM

  Another great contribution to the body of knowledge we all rely on (and few of us contribute to). Thank you! Typo: apples DRY'ness » applies DRY'ness... read more »

• My Opinionated git Cheat Sheet

  Posted on Mar 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM

  Nice! One of my favorite shortcuts...Instead of... git add . git commit -m "Woot, finally got this working." I do this... git commit -am "Woot, finally got this working." This is slightly different in that it only adds all tracked files, which is what I'm doing most of ... read more »

• Animating Elements In From A Mouse-Event Location In Vue.js 2.5.21

  Posted on Jan 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM

  @Ben No worries. Thx for another great demo walk through.... read more »

• Animating Elements In From A Mouse-Event Location In Vue.js 2.5.21

  Posted on Jan 7, 2019 at 10:44 AM

  Wrong video embedded ??... read more »

• Creating A Pandora Radio Station List Animation In Vue.js 2.5.21

  Posted on Jan 6, 2019 at 9:53 AM

  Wow! Just wow! I love that you take the time to eloquently expose your audience to such wizardry. Eye opening and inspiring. I could use this too and will probably end up building something like it, but in react... I'll be using beautiful-react-dnd more than likely. Ref: https://github.com... read more »

• EXPERIMENT: Creating A Promise-Inspired Future Constructor In ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Oct 8, 2018 at 9:20 PM

  Thanks @Ben. I've also wished we could pull JS's promise based api into CF. This is a great experiment. I'm impressed how far you were able to get.... read more »

• EXPERIMENT: Creating A Promise-Inspired Future Constructor In ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Sep 3, 2018 at 2:56 PM

  I think you attached the wrong video to this :(... read more »

• ColdFusion Client For The Word-Finding Datamuse API

  Posted on Jul 25, 2018 at 11:43 AM

  How are you using their API? What problem does it solve for you?... read more »

• The Not-So-Dark Art Of Designing Database Indexes: Reflections From An Average Software Engineer

  Posted on Jul 5, 2018 at 6:19 PM

  @Ben Thanks for yet another thoughtful and educational post. You've demystified a few things I thought I knew. I'd always been told that a good rule of thumb was that indexes are a trade-off between optimizing for read -vs- write actions. If you're writing to a table more often than you re... read more »

• Functional-Light JavaScript By Kyle Simpson

  Posted on May 19, 2018 at 10:31 AM

  @Chris, ?? = (Heart)... read more »

• Functional-Light JavaScript By Kyle Simpson

  Posted on May 19, 2018 at 10:30 AM

  I ?? all things Kyle Simpson and Ben Nadel. Great review!... read more »

• Going Offline: Designing An Ideal Offline Experience With Service Workers By Jeremy Keith

  Posted on May 11, 2018 at 12:17 PM

  @ Ben In my case, we had an online-first back-office app that needed to work offline. It was used to adjust inventory levels and assumed (inaccurately) that our clients would always have access to wifi. So I started experimenting with service workers to solve the offline problem, caching inventory ... read more »

• Going Offline: Designing An Ideal Offline Experience With Service Workers By Jeremy Keith

  Posted on Apr 28, 2018 at 9:09 AM

  Sounds great. I've played with SWs before and found it to be a powerful API. Don't think I ever came across waitUntil(). Glad you called that out. FYI: typo "but, does who does have"... read more »

• Leaders Are The People We Bleed With - Not The People We Bleed For

  Posted on Apr 24, 2018 at 7:56 AM

  Great analysis, Ben, and reminder. Though I thought a few more code demos would have brought it home ?? IOW - it could use more cowbell. https://youtu.be/R8fpVNhiqKQ Seriously though, thx for sharing your thoughts on such a wide array of topics! FYI this form isn't mobile friendly... read more »

• Tracking Image Error Events Using Event Delegation In JavaScript

  Posted on Apr 2, 2018 at 9:02 PM

  Very clever! Love it when I learn something new and useful. Thanks!... read more »

• Practice: Progressively Enhancing A Flexbox Grid To Use CSS Grid

  Posted on Feb 27, 2018 at 12:10 PM

  @Ben I have the same problem, and I know you're right, but for some reason it's more difficult than it should be to switch from a desktop-first mentality. Ug!... read more »

• Practice: Progressively Enhancing A Flexbox Grid To Use CSS Grid

  Posted on Jan 31, 2018 at 3:27 AM

  Love that you're tackling fallbacks, which is where so much of the confusion happens (for me!). Doesn't look too crazy to fallback to IE11. I'd love to see what the unsupported experience looks like. Still viewable and usable?... read more »

• CSS Grid: A Free Video Course On The CSS Grid Layout By Wes Bos

  Posted on Jan 29, 2018 at 3:28 AM

  I'm also impressed! Another thing I love about Wes's courses is they ignite the imagination such that you want to expand on his examples. And he always leaves you plenty of room to expand on them. Yours is a great, very pragmatic extension. Thx!... read more »

• Converting TechSmith JING SWF Movies To MP4 Videos

  Posted on Jan 9, 2018 at 9:15 PM

  @Ben I think this might be your answer, an end-to-end testing tool that can be programmatically controlled. https://www.cypress.io/ Another interesting approach that might be worth thinking about is to use a headless browser, which can also be programmatically controlled.... read more »

• Converting TechSmith JING SWF Movies To MP4 Videos

  Posted on Jan 2, 2018 at 11:08 AM

  Think you might be able to use testing tools to automate this?... read more »