Chris G

Recent Blog Comments By Chris G

• 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 »

• What The Flexbox: A Free Video Course On The CSS Flexible Box Model By Wes Bos

  Posted on Nov 6, 2017 at 12:04 PM

  I respect that, but maybe consider at least listing books to avoid? Knowing where not to waste one's time can also be helpful. But yeah, totally understand and agree with the keep it positive philosophy... read more »

• What The Flexbox: A Free Video Course On The CSS Flexible Box Model By Wes Bos

  Posted on Nov 1, 2017 at 9:20 AM

  I love wes's courses too, though I went the flexbox for zombies route for this topic (highly recommend). Was just wondering though; have you ever written an unflattering review? I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen one, and I at least skim most of yours. They're always very thoughtful.... read more »

• ColdFusion Gateway For IPInfo.io Geolocation Service

  Posted on Oct 12, 2016 at 3:44 PM

  @James Moberg IPInfo.io claims to be Fast, Reliable, and Up to Date. They make no claims about being accurate... LOL... read more »

• ColdFusion Gateway For IPInfo.io Geolocation Service

  Posted on Oct 12, 2016 at 9:38 AM

  Good to see some ColdFusion again!. Also nice to learn about IPInfo. As always, thx!... read more »

• Code Kata: Using Array Reduce() To Navigate An Object Graph In JavaScript

  Posted on Aug 19, 2016 at 1:11 PM

  This is why I love this blog... I never would have thought to reach for reduce, but that's brilliant! I would have for sure reached for a for-loop like this library `get-object-path` did... https://github.com/skratchdot/object-path-get/blob/master/index.js Or even a while loop as `get-value` di... read more »

• Exploring ES6: Upgrade To The Next Version Of JavaScript By Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

  Posted on Jul 11, 2016 at 10:22 AM

  My problem has less to do with understanding ES6 generators and other 'improvements' than knowing when to reach for them. Destructuring is awesome and useful, but generators? Not as much... For me anyway, but I'm probably just missing the point of them or I don't write sophisticated enough apps.... read more »