Ben Nadel

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Nadel

• Lists - The Unsung Heroes Of ColdFusion And Lucee CFML

  Posted on Nov 24, 2020 at 11:41 AM

  @Gavin, Ha ha, my wife is the same way, "Mary Kate". I can't tell you how often people don't even know to say her name as a two-part name, forget about trying to parse it programmatically :D... read more »

• Proof-Of-Concept: Injecting Features Into An InVision Share Link Experience Using AngularJS 1.6.7

  Posted on Nov 23, 2020 at 10:04 AM

  @John, Valid question -- just a lot of code and not enough people to actually focus on the upgrade. We've been on AngularJS 1.x for 8-years; so, you can imagine how much legacy code is in place. I am not sure we'll ever be able to focus on upgrading to modern Angular :( :( :(... read more »

• Replacing All External Date Libraries With 300 Lines-Of-Code In Angular 11.0.0

  Posted on Nov 18, 2020 at 6:05 AM

  @Charles, Ha ha, that's awesome! Regular Expressions are just so powerful ! Glad that some of the unending madness that comes out of my brain is useful :D @All, While I love Angular personally, the reality is that my work is still on AngularJS 1.2.22 . As such, I wanted to follow... read more »

• Adjusting Dates By Adding Date / Time Parts In Angular 11.0.0

  Posted on Nov 17, 2020 at 6:32 AM

  @All, As a final (probably) follow-up, I've aggregated a few of these smaller posts into 300 lines-of-code that will replace all of the external date libraries in my Angular applications : https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3926-replacing-all-external-date-libraries-with-300-lines-of-code-in... read more »

• Painless Date / Time Formatting With formatDate() In Angular 10.2.3

  Posted on Nov 17, 2020 at 6:31 AM

  @All, As a final (probably) follow-up, I've aggregated a few of these smaller posts into 300 lines-of-code that will replace all of the external date libraries in my Angular applications : https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3926-replacing-all-external-date-libraries-with-300-lines-of-code-in... read more »

• Building A Moment-Inspired .fromNow() Date Formatting Method In Angular 10.2.3

  Posted on Nov 17, 2020 at 6:31 AM

  @All, As a final (probably) follow-up, I've aggregated a few of these smaller posts into 300 lines-of-code that will replace all of the external date libraries in my Angular applications : https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3926-replacing-all-external-date-libraries-with-300-lines-of-code-in... read more »

• Building A Moment-Inspired .fromNow() Date Formatting Method In Angular 10.2.3

  Posted on Nov 15, 2020 at 7:30 AM

  @All, In the vein of creating date/time functionality, here's a small post on adding and subtracting date/time "parts" in Angular: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3925-adjusting-dates-by-adding-date-time-parts-in-angular-11-0-0.htm This creates an API like, .add( part, delta, d... read more »

• Installing User Defined Functions (UDF) As An Extension For Built-In Functions (BIF) In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Nov 13, 2020 at 1:27 PM

  @Brad, For what it's worth, I tried to install an extension this morning with an ID, like com.bennadel.lucee.differ , and the Lucee Admin complained that the ID had to be a "valid UUID". So, maybe they've actually changed to be stricter about it.... read more »

• Painless Date / Time Formatting With formatDate() In Angular 10.2.3

  Posted on Nov 12, 2020 at 6:55 AM

  @All, After this post, I got to thinking about Moment.js and how we use it at work. And like 95% of our uses-cases are Moment's .fromNow() function which takes dates and returns human-friendly strings like, a few seconds ago . I wanted to see if I could implement a .fromNow() functi... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 7, 2020 at 8:48 AM

  @Charles, Hmmm, that example code is like 8-years old. I wonder if the version of the Pusher library that is included in it is even still functionality anymore. That example is using 1.12 , and in this post I'm using 7.0 . I'm actually shocked that the ColdFusion component even still wor... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 7, 2020 at 8:38 AM

  @All, In this post, I talked about WebSockets as a "nice to have" - a way to progressively enhance the user experience (UX). And, in this case, the "fall back", as we saw with Safari, was to just not update the UI. This got me thinking about other ways in which we may c... read more »

• Playing With Lists And Blocking Pop Operations In Redis And Lucee 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Nov 7, 2020 at 8:36 AM

  @All, As a related follow-up, it occurred to me that I might be able to use Redis' blocking list operations to power long-polling as means to provide a fall-back in cases where a WebSocket-based workflow might fail: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3921-using-redis-blocking-list-operati... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 6, 2020 at 8:12 AM

  @Charles, Word up -- plenty to get your feet wet and try it out.... read more »

• Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020

  Posted on Nov 6, 2020 at 4:52 AM

  @Jim, 1000% Ortus is the bomb-diggity :D @Spills, I've started to use a lot more "functionality" approaches in ColdFusion lately, especially with the .filter() and .map() functions. For a long time, I was always worried that "functions" had a big overhead in ColdF... read more »

• Testing wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 With Docker In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80

  Posted on Nov 6, 2020 at 4:50 AM

  @Sebastiaan, At this point, I've only done this one exploration. To go further with WKHTMLTOPDF , I'd have to get our Security team involved to see if I can install this on our production servers. It would be cool - just lower on my list of priorities :D... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 6, 2020 at 4:49 AM

  @Charles, Re: window.location.href , it is firing right away -- that's the beauty of this exploration. The user hits the "start page", and is immediately redirected to the "generate" page. However, the "generate" page's content isn't available right away (s... read more »

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

  Posted on Nov 6, 2020 at 4:45 AM

  @Charles, Pusher has a "freemium" model - there is a small free tier, but then after that you pay across two dimensions: Concurrent connections and Messages per day: https://pusher.com/channels/pricing At work, we find that the Concurrent connections dimension is the limit... 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 2:39 PM

  @Chris, Ha ha, you are very kind, good sir! I'm glad this stuff is interesting. I do enjoy making the videos, I'm just not always sure they make much of a difference for the ColdFusion stuff (I almost always make them for JavaScript posts). But, it's good to know they help even in a cont... read more »

• The Power Of Cascading Tag Attributes In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.43

  Posted on Nov 3, 2020 at 3:58 PM

  @Chris, Ha ha, glad to be able to share something exciting :D I know that the attributeCollection definitely works in Adobe ColdFusion; but, I am not sure about the this.tag stuff in the Application.cfc . I'm trying to Google it, but I am not finding much. That latter one may be Lucee... read more »

• Struct Iteration With CFLoop Includes Super Intuitive Aliases In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 31, 2020 at 6:22 AM

  @Andreas, Totally agreed. I've been using the .map() and .filter() functions a lot more lately in my programming. It's been really enjoyable; and I think is easy enough to follow / has good readability.... read more »