Ben Nadel

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• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 23, 2020 at 7:34 AM

  @Brad, Ok, ticket filed :D https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2649... read more »

• Using A File Upload Or The Request Body To Overcome The Slow Processing Of A Large Form POST In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 23, 2020 at 6:59 AM

  @Jean, Ha ha, good to hear from you, my friend :D I am glad this was enjoyed. What are you working on these days?... read more »

• A Months-Long Journey Of Incrementally Increasing Performance Of A Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40 Service

  Posted on Jan 23, 2020 at 6:57 AM

  @Adam, Re: Naive choices. I'll tell you, the older I get, the more likely I am try out a naive choice before I put in the effort to make something really solid. After all, an idea might be good in your head, but then you go to build it and it turns out to be a lot more complicated; or, e... read more »

• A Months-Long Journey Of Incrementally Increasing Performance Of A Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40 Service

  Posted on Jan 23, 2020 at 6:52 AM

  @Adam, Thank you for even making it through this entire post :D I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Feature flags rule everything around me :D At work, we use LaunchDarkly (LD) for our feature flag implementation. It's a bit $$$, but it's super powerful. It provides its own SaaS dashboard in whi... read more »

• Repositories And Data Access Layers Can Have As Many Methods As You Find Helpful

  Posted on Jan 21, 2020 at 7:17 AM

  @Rob, Totally! When you feel like you have to bend to fit into some ill-conceived notation of how it's supposed to work, you end up building a lot of stuff that actually makes it less flexible and harder to maintain in the long run... at least, in my experience. When you keep it simpl... read more »

• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 21, 2020 at 7:13 AM

  @MrV, Good insight, I am not sure how the data is being converted under the hood. That said, one of the things that I am loving about Lucee CFML is that, because of the native data types and ordered structs , I can actually get much closer to the MongoDB API. For example, being able t... read more »

• Using A File Upload Or The Request Body To Overcome The Slow Processing Of A Large Form POST In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 18, 2020 at 8:26 AM

  @Charles, Yeah, it definitely seems like they can make some better choices under the hood - like, why are they re-decoding the form-fields just to spawn the threads -- seems like they could just duplicate the data. Brad Wood asked me to open a ticket about this part of it, which I plan t... read more »

• Lucee Appears To Incur Request-Cloning Overhead When Spawning CFThread Tags In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 18, 2020 at 6:23 AM

  @All, Based on the conversations in the Lucee CFML Dev Forum, I tested two different approaches to getting around this large Form Field issue: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3758-using-a-file-upload-or-the-request-body-to-overcome-the-slow-processing-of-a-large-form-post-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-3... read more »

• Lucee Appears To Incur Request-Cloning Overhead When Spawning CFThread Tags In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 17, 2020 at 7:36 AM

  @All, Some of this is being discussed in the Lucee Dev forum: https://dev.lucee.org/t/urldecoder-timeout-for-very-large-post-requests/2023/10 ... in which Zac Spitzer points to this Lucee Ticket: https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2559 ... that also discusses the cost ... read more »

• Automatically Scroll The Window When The User Approaches The Viewport Edge In JavaScript

  Posted on Jan 16, 2020 at 7:50 AM

  @Akuma Isaac, That's awesome that you were able to get it to work. I'd also like to try and come up with a solution (basically by refactoring the current demo).... read more »

• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 14, 2020 at 12:29 PM

  @Brad, I have not. Can you point me to how to submit tickets. I've honestly tried to do it a few times, and I never quite figure it out. Is it documented anywhere?... read more »

• Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31

  Posted on Jan 14, 2020 at 6:12 AM

  I just tested this on Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62 and it results in the same error (though, I was using a different MongoDB Java driver - 3.4.2 - which I installed via the Lucee Server admin).... read more »

• Component View-Template Fragments Retain Bindings And Can Be Moved Around In The DOM In Angular 9.0.0-rc.2

  Posted on Jan 13, 2020 at 7:35 AM

  @André, So, I think this is a feature . Not in this post, but in some others, I believe @Charles actually pointed out that this feature is how Angular Material implements all of their pop-ups and drop-downs. Essentially, they have an abstraction they call a "Portal", which is ... read more »

• Collecting Route Params Across All Router Segments In Angular 6.0.7

  Posted on Jan 13, 2020 at 7:32 AM

  @O, Can you expand on what you mean by "user Angular the right way"? I'm looking at your code and it seems very much like my code. The major difference being that I am further wrapping the change inside a BehaviorSubject that checks to see if any of the params actually changes ... read more »

• Playing With Recursive Components In Angular 6.1.10

  Posted on Jan 13, 2020 at 7:25 AM

  @Eduardo, It's an interesting idea. To be honest, I'm pretty poor when it comes to the Animations API inside of Angular. Part of me longs for the AngularJS days, when it was all controlled by special ng-enter and ng-leave CSS classes. Though, I do know that the new API is way more powe... read more »

• Repositories And Data Access Layers Can Have As Many Methods As You Find Helpful

  Posted on Jan 10, 2020 at 10:12 AM

  @Paul, I'm glad I'm not crazy and that this rings true. Though, I suppose as with all things, the older I get, the more likely I am to question why I've always done something some way.... read more »

• Depth-First vs Breadth-First Tree Traversal Using A While-Loop In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 10, 2020 at 7:08 AM

  @All, On a related note, I just published an article about using a Closure to separate the recursive logic from the consumption logic: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3755-using-a-closure-to-encapsulate-depth-first-tree-traversal-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-3-62.htm In my earlier examples, the ... read more »

• Replacing Depth-First Recursion With A Breadth-First While-Loop In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 10, 2020 at 7:08 AM

  @All, On a related note, I just published an article about using a Closure to separate the recursive logic from the consumption logic: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3755-using-a-closure-to-encapsulate-depth-first-tree-traversal-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-3-62.htm In my earlier examples, the ... read more »

• Passing isArray() Decision Function Does Not Ensure Member Methods In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

  Posted on Jan 8, 2020 at 2:04 PM

  @Brad, I definitely share your frustration. In a perfect world, it would definitely "just work". But, that seems like a massive functionality-gap to overcome. That said, the people who write the Lucee platform know way more than I do; so, what seems like a large technical problem... read more »

• Parsing HTML Natively With htmlParse() In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jan 8, 2020 at 7:08 AM

  @Christian, Sorry for the late reply. But, I assume (without knowing the exact data model here), that you could .map() the rows onto the given structure you are looking for. So, some pseudo-code for this might look like: var data = htmlParse( your_html ).search( "//tr" ).map... read more »