Chris G.

Recent Blog Comments By Chris G.

• My ColdFusion "Controller" Layer Is Just A Bunch Of Switch Statements And CFIncludes

  Posted on Aug 2, 2023 at 4:27 PM

  As they say, every application uses a framework. Either you're using one someone else wrote, or you're writing your own. Good stuff 🙌... read more »

• Layla Porter On Modular Monolith Boundaries

  Posted on Aug 1, 2023 at 5:01 PM

  If you can't answer YES right away, then the answer is No. In other words — If it's not a "HELL YES" then it's a "HELL NAH" We're migrating to a microservice-oriented-architecture and so far, I am not a fan. The complexity just skyrocketed. Troubleshooting is more dif... read more »

• Code Kata: Compacting Arrays In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM

  I always enjoy your code kata's. Good stuff! That's all I have to say about that. 🙏... read more »

• Creating A Database-Driven Scheduled Task Runner In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 15, 2023 at 12:28 AM

  This is so useful! I love the idea of controlling scheduled tasks directly from the database...especially when in a multi-server environment.... read more »

• Using CSS Flexbox To Create A Simple Bar Chart In ColdFusion

  Posted on May 19, 2023 at 6:44 PM

  This is pretty great actually...and useful. I really DO NOT love CFChart. It feels way to cumbersome for most of my (minimal) charting needs and rarely gives me what I want. Instead, I find myself stopping at "good enough" and calling it a day.... read more »

• John Gall's Law On Building Complex Systems

  Posted on Apr 24, 2023 at 2:27 PM

  Love this 💕... read more »

• Associating Submit Buttons With Any Form Using Button Attributes In Native HTML

  Posted on Apr 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM

  @Ben, Definitely! Huge fan of K.I.S.S (keep it simple stupid) or (keep it stupid simple)... read more »

• Associating Submit Buttons With Any Form Using Button Attributes In Native HTML

  Posted on Apr 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM

  @Ben Back to the basics! It always surprises me how after 30 years, I can still learn something fundamental like this. I've definitely restructured code in the past so that my submit button would be within the form tags, even though that's NOT where I really wanted it.... read more »

• Using navigator.sendBeacon() To Publish Analytics Back To ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 9, 2023 at 2:09 PM

  @Ben This is cool...so you'd use this to track feature usage?... read more »

• Thought Experiment: Creating Single Use-Case Components In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 31, 2023 at 5:37 PM

  @Andrew, @Ben I have a lot of YouTube to catch up on now. Thanks guys! I just watched "Cruddy by Design" and that made a lot of sense. I've recently seen this tactic used in the creation/destruction of auth sessions and I really like that approach.... read more »

• Thought Experiment: Creating Single Use-Case Components In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 31, 2023 at 2:41 PM

  These architectural conversations intrigue me. I'm leaving a comment so I can be alerted to other commenters, but have little to add. However it use to be the trend to separate all concerns into separate files. JavaScript would be separated out into its own folder in its own file. Same with ... read more »

• A Bit Of Optimism: This Might Not Work

  Posted on Mar 27, 2023 at 2:34 PM

  The key to enjoying anything is...falling in love with the process without getting married to the result... read more »

• Trying To Get ChatGPT 4 To Solve My Hotwire Form Submission Problem

  Posted on Mar 24, 2023 at 3:16 PM

  Extremely interesting and insightful... Thanks for sharing your experience. These LLMs are evolving so rapidly though, you may check back next week (or tomorrow even) and have better luck. I love the idea of using LLM-based tools to enhance productivity and would like to check out GitHub's c... read more »

• Russian Doll Content Wrapping With CFSaveContent In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 22, 2023 at 8:06 PM

  @Ben, Indeed. Much appreciated. Everything we've ever learned we've once learned for the first time. Today is that day for this particular topic 😂... read more »

• Russian Doll Content Wrapping With CFSaveContent In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM

  @Ben, I love this (hidden from me) gem! I really hadn't ever considered using it in this way, but brilliant 👌 wunderbar 🎉 excellent 🙌 simple, elegant AND OH SO useful!... read more »

• I've Never Had A Good Story For View-Rendering Helpers In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 15, 2023 at 2:05 PM

  This would clean up the view code nicely. My colleagues tend to do messy things like wrap verbose CFIF tags around selected, checked, and disabled conditions...which looks really scary within the HTML tag. I thought I was doing better by relocating this logic above as in... <cfset dis... read more »

• The User Experience (UX) Of Disabled Form Buttons

  Posted on Mar 3, 2023 at 4:27 PM

  @Ben, Bwahahahaha!... read more »

• The User Experience (UX) Of Disabled Form Buttons

  Posted on Mar 3, 2023 at 2:34 PM

  @K Client side validation is great UX. I'm in total agreement with you there as well. The situation we desperately want to avoid is having a form filled out with valid values...yet no way to submit it because the submit button is still disabled. 😭 Ben described one situation which may cau... read more »

• The User Experience (UX) Of Disabled Form Buttons

  Posted on Mar 2, 2023 at 7:35 PM

  Preach! 🙌 The one time I support disabling the form button is directly after submission to mitigate the accidental double-submission. But in this scenario, the default should still be enabled...onClick disable for several ms...then enable again. Hopefully by the time it would be re-enable... read more »

• Extending The Current Request Timeout In ColdFusion / CFML

  Posted on Feb 13, 2023 at 6:47 PM

  Ok, now I feel like I struck gold here! Great stuff! 🙌💥💯... read more »