Ben Nadel

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• Worth: A Movie That Underscores The Criticality Of Customer Empathy

  Posted on Dec 2, 2021 at 3:25 PM

  @Bret, Thanks for sharing. I find that we also idolize "Designers" as being paragons of user empathy. But, Designers are really good at "putting pixels on the screen" - they aren't inherently any better at apply user empathy than anyone else. Some of the most "unus... read more »

• Terrifying Excitement: My First CFUNITED Conference Experience From 2007

  Posted on Dec 1, 2021 at 10:40 PM

  Hopefully we can all cross-paths on conferences in the future (ColdFusion or otherwise ). ❤️... read more »

• Terrifying Excitement: My First CFUNITED Conference Experience From 2007

  Posted on Dec 1, 2021 at 2:12 PM

  @Jim, NCDevCon was a good time! It was a really nice size. Plus, always fun to see Simon Free in action :D... read more »

• Terrifying Excitement: My First CFUNITED Conference Experience From 2007

  Posted on Dec 1, 2021 at 1:21 PM

  @Adam, Ha ha, I've heard stories of legend! I think I even saw it once in passing.... read more »

• Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020

  Posted on Dec 1, 2021 at 12:57 PM

  @All, Last night, I came across an old review of my first ColdFusion conference attendance back in 2007. I had written it up for a now-defunct magazine called Fusion Authority. I figured it would be fun to repost on my blog if for no other reason, it showcases how strong ColdFusion has... read more »

• Referencing String Characters Using Array-Notation In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 30, 2021 at 1:16 PM

  @Charlie, Great points all around. I have to say, I really like the fact that the Lucee CFML docs actually embed a TryCF iframe right in a lot of their function/tag pages. It's super helpful to see how things work. Though, I have to admit that I usually use other people's TryCF examp... read more »

• Referencing String Characters Using Array-Notation In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 28, 2021 at 2:47 PM

  I've logged the java.lang.Character issue as a bug in the Adobe ColdFusion bug tracker: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4212577... read more »

• Referencing String Characters Using Array-Notation In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92

  Posted on Nov 28, 2021 at 2:40 PM

  @All, Turns out, you can do this now in Adobe ColdFusion as well: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4159-referencing-string-characters-using-array-notation-in-coldfusion-2021.htm I'm not sure what version it was introduced in - just something I tried while upgrading my blogging platform.... 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 Nov 25, 2021 at 1:15 PM

  @BJ, That's awesome to hear! I believe this was filed as a ticket in the Lucee Jira system; so, it's definitely possible that parts of the underlying issue have been patched - depends on which version you are running. But, this is a great point to know about - thanks for sharing! 💪🙌... read more »

• A Query Object Maintains Its CurrentRow When Passed Out-Of-Context In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 15, 2021 at 6:28 PM

  @Frédéric, Totally. The returnType="array" on the query in ACF 2021 (and Lucee, not sure how many releases) will do that automatically. Also, if you for ( row in query ) , the row value will automatically be a Struct inside the iteration. Being able to for-in over a query ... read more »

• Phill Nacelli's SQL Tip Is Making My CFQuery Upgrades In Adobe ColdFusion 2021 Easy

  Posted on Nov 15, 2021 at 2:23 PM

  @Seb, In this case, yeah, <=> and IS NULL would be the same (and would possibly be more readable in this case actually). The main value-add of this operator is that it it works with both null and non-null values. But, since my condition is always comparing to null, then IS NULL ... read more »

• From ColdFusion 10 To ColdFusion 2021 - Preparing For Some Blog Love

  Posted on Nov 13, 2021 at 12:43 PM

  @John, Good tip! I think I either ran into that or something similar. After I upgraded, the site wouldn't load (an error was being thrown in the onApplicationStart() event-handler when trying to instantiate the JavaLoader component. I had to go into the CFIDE and uncheck the security... read more »

• Generate And Incrementally Stream A ZIP Archive To Amazon S3 Using Multipart Uploads In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Nov 12, 2021 at 1:17 PM

  @Ali, The "parts" of the multi-part upload have to be greater than 5MB; but, the objects that go into the ZIP can be any size that you want, assuming you're zipping all the small files together. As far as why the uploadPart() works inside the loop, but not on the last part ... read more »

• Getting Rollbar's Java SDK 1.7.10 Working In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 11, 2021 at 9:31 AM

  @Frédéric, Very cool! I wonder why this worked in Lucee but not in ACF? I wonder if there's some additional logging libraries that somehow in the version of Java or something that Lucee is using? No idea. Thanks for testing that out!... read more »

• Getting Rollbar's Java SDK 1.7.10 Working In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM

  @Frédéric, Oh, interesting -- are you saying that you did not have to include slf4j-nop-1.7.25.jar in order for this to work? If so, that's very interesting indeed. Re: onError() - you are spot-on - my blog is really just a series of switch / include tags - really old-school, l... read more »

• Getting Rollbar's Java SDK 1.7.10 Working In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 9, 2021 at 2:50 PM

  @Charlie, I did not actually try it . I was just hypothesizing that having Lucee's on-the-fly JAR loading may have helped . But, once I realized what the solution was (including that No-Op logging implementation), I have to assume the same exact issue would have happened in Lucee as well... read more »

• Porting Lucee CFML's SystemOutput() Function Over To Adobe ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 8, 2021 at 6:32 AM

  @All, So, it turns out that the CFDump tag and the writeDump() function in Adobe ColdFusion can target the standard out stream instead of writing to the browser: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4150-writing-to-the-standard-out-console-using-writedump-in-adobe-coldfusion-2021.htm ... read more »

• Getting Rollbar's Java SDK 1.7.10 Working In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 7, 2021 at 3:04 PM

  @All, So, one thing that has "thrown me off" a bit is the fact that the Rollbar SDK uses java.lang.Throwable in its method signatures. I use errors in ColdFusion all the time; but, I basically never think about the data type that they are. Now, this SDK is forcing me to consi... read more »

• Getting Rollbar's Java SDK 1.7.10 Working In Adobe ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Nov 7, 2021 at 1:08 PM

  @Frederic, Ha ha, hopefully not too soon. Gotta wrap my head around the API.... read more »

• Working Code Podcast - Episode 047: Email Ruins Everything

  Posted on Nov 5, 2021 at 5:25 AM

  A quick test to see if root datasource is working.... read more »