Chris G

Recent Blog Comments By Chris G

• Using CSS Overscroll-Behavior To Prevent Scrolling Of Parent Containers From Within Overflow Containers

  Posted on Sep 18, 2019 at 12:29 PM

  Awesome! I can use this TODAY! Love it when something like this falls right into my lap, solving a problem I didn't realize had a solution!... read more »

• REST And GraphQL Are Not Your Only Choices When Building An HTTP API

  Posted on Aug 28, 2019 at 8:34 PM

  Amen sista! Preach! Sounds like you create individual, app-specific RPC APIs, which I think is smart if you are your own customer. REST/GraphQL make a lot more sense for SASS apps, where your content is the service.... read more »

• CachedWithin Function Memoization Can Be Applied To Closures In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Aug 5, 2019 at 12:50 PM

  I am really loving your exploration of these topics...and am following along. Super appreciate it. Also, really appreciate that you've begun providing video overviews again, making it much more likely that I follow along. And I enjoy hearing you talk through your thought process as well. ???... read more »

• Possible Bug: Variable Assignment Gets Swallowed By Function Invocation In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 19, 2019 at 1:44 PM

  Off topic (sorry), but I've noticed you wrap all your return statements in parenthesis (e.g. return( isNull( value ) ); ). Does this guard against certain edge case behavior, making it a best practice? Or is this personal preference?... read more »

• The CachedWithin Function Memoization Feature Appears To Compare Complex Objects By Value In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 14, 2019 at 1:47 PM

  Also...thanks for bringing back the videos! FYI-the ?? in my last comment was the (thinking-emoji). I've been wondering how difficult it would be to create a map that would replace extended characters with their text-based equivalents rather than generalize them all with ?? . Have you eve... read more »

• The CachedWithin Function Memoization Feature Appears To Compare Complex Objects By Value In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 14, 2019 at 1:42 PM

  Super interesting that [] would be the same as {} in terms of memoization. I can't think of a reason why this would matter, but feels wrong (to me). Does it make sense to you? My first thought was that Lucee must be memoizing based on the serialized response, but that's clearly not true.... read more »

• Returning CFQuery / Query Results As Arrays In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 12, 2019 at 1:13 PM

  @Ben Not dis-proportionally excited at all, in my opinion. I was also pretty excited about this feature and submitted a feature request to the CFWheels Repo [1] as a result. As move further and further away from ACF and begin to explore LCF more closely, I'm really loving how thoughtful th... read more »

• Creating asyncAll(), asyncSettled(), And asyncRace() Functions Using runAsync() And Parallel Iteration In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 4, 2019 at 6:14 PM

  Finally got back to "read" this. Couple thoughts... I wonder why asyncSettled doesn't return 1status: "resolved" rather than status: "fulfilled"` ?? You blew my mind ?? with the asyncRace() example! Wow, Ben. Just wow!... read more »

• Fat-Arrow Functions And Lambda Expressions Are Supported In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 4, 2019 at 5:56 PM

  I just requested ACF support fat arrow functions in the survey they sent out. I'd also love it if there were support for destructuring. I find destructuring super useful, especially when combined with default argument values.... read more »

• Creating asyncAll(), asyncSettled(), And asyncRace() Functions Using runAsync() And Parallel Iteration In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 2, 2019 at 2:17 PM

  @Ben That would be great! I don't always have the time to "digest" the words which requires more cognitive load. But I generally always have 5m to get the idea through video. But if we're comparing laziness, I definitely lose because generating all this great content is absolutel... read more »

• Creating asyncAll(), asyncSettled(), And asyncRace() Functions Using runAsync() And Parallel Iteration In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 2, 2019 at 11:09 AM

  Loving the async explorations. I noticed you haven't recorded any videos in a while. Are you done with that? Too much overhead? I personally enjoyed the video walk throughs.... read more »

• 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 »