Ben Nadel

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• Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Compatible Version Of My ColdFusion Custom Tag DSL For HTML Emails

  Posted on Jun 17, 2021 at 11:39 AM

  @Brad, I also just updated my MacOS. I'll try updating my CommandBox to see if that fixes things.... read more »

• A Closer Look At Error Handling During Parallel Array Iteration In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Jun 17, 2021 at 6:41 AM

  @All, I've started to coalesce around a pattern in which I use a parallel map() operation, and catch-and-report errors for each iteration. Then, I can report errors back to the user (where and when it makes sense): https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4067-managing-and-reporting-errors-duri... read more »

• Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Compatible Version Of My ColdFusion Custom Tag DSL For HTML Emails

  Posted on Jun 17, 2021 at 4:49 AM

  @Brad, Also, totally random aside, I never a problem stopping a Lucee server. But, when I go to stop an ACF server, I've been getting this lately: CommandBox> stop Stopping lucee... ERROR Error invoking external processCannot run program "/Library/Internet": error=2, No such file... read more »

• Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Compatible Version Of My ColdFusion Custom Tag DSL For HTML Emails

  Posted on Jun 17, 2021 at 4:47 AM

  @Brad, Hmmmm, Ok, so when I went to test it out this morning, it looked like CommandBox actually installed something new: CommandBox> start cfengine=adobe@2018 - | Starting Server |------------------------------ | Contacting ForgeBox to determine the latest & greatest version of... read more »

• Strange Variable-Name Error When Writing To Base Tag In Adobe ColdFusion 2018

  Posted on Jun 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM

  @Dan, It's a good though. I did play around a bit with setVariable() , but the problem I think is that I can't use bracket-notation in the variable value. And, I can't use dot-notation since I have a key that has non-valid variable characters. So, I could probably get something working ... read more »

• Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Compatible Version Of My ColdFusion Custom Tag DSL For HTML Emails

  Posted on Jun 16, 2021 at 7:21 AM

  @All, I wanted to further document some of the getBaseTagData() issues. Specifically when trying to store a key into the parent tag / base tag that contains invalid variable name characters: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4065-strange-variable-name-error-when-writing-to-base-tag-in-ad... read more »

• Divergent CALLER Scope Assignment Behavior In Adobe ColdFusion And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.48

  Posted on Jun 16, 2021 at 7:20 AM

  @All, I ran into this again - if you have a variable "key" that contains invalid variable-name characters, Adobe ColdFusion will throw an error unless you explicitly reference the variables scope: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4065-strange-variable-name-error-when-writing-to-... read more »

• Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Compatible Version Of My ColdFusion Custom Tag DSL For HTML Emails

  Posted on Jun 16, 2021 at 4:44 AM

  @Brad, Good question. I just use CommandBox via cfengine=adobe@2018 . I guess I just assumed that would be using whatever the latest version was. But, maybe I need to update the cached artifacts or use a patch number in the engine call. As you know, I only CommandBox at a 2nd grade leve... read more »

• Using ColdFusion Custom Tags To Create An HTML Email DSL In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Jun 15, 2021 at 6:12 AM

  @All, I created an Adobe ColdFusion 2018 compatible version of my proof-of-concept repository: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4064-adobe-coldfusion-2018-compatible-version-of-my-coldfusion-custom-tag-dsl-for-html-emails.htm I could proooobably get both runtimes to work on a single ... read more »

• Managing Lists Of IDs Using HTML FORM Posts In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Jun 9, 2021 at 3:00 PM

  @Chris, Heck yeah, teamwork! This is how I feel every time I remember that there's like 100 "semantic" HTML elements that I don't know about 😂... read more »

• Using Password4j And The BCrypt, SCrypt, And Argon2 Password Hashing Algorithms In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Jun 4, 2021 at 5:53 AM

  @All, In this post, the various .withXYZDefaults() methods use a technique that I'm not sure I've used before. Which is to create a way to change the runtime behavior of Function argument defaults. As such, I wanted to carve out a moment of self-reflection on that approach: https... read more »

• The 14th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2021

  Posted on Jun 2, 2021 at 5:50 AM

  @Gavin, That's a pretty cool site. I love how it actually breaks-down the pattern and gives you a detailed explanation of what each character is doing. That can be super helpful 💪 Excellent suggestion.... read more »

• Using Password4j And The BCrypt, SCrypt, And Argon2 Password Hashing Algorithms In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Jun 1, 2021 at 6:47 AM

  @All, One of the APIs that Password4j exposes is the ability to update a hash . This is usually needed when migrating a system from an older, weaker hashing algorithm (like MD5) to a new, stronger hashing algorithm (like BCrypt). This sounds like a complicated thing; but, it's actually ... read more »

• Using Password4j And The BCrypt, SCrypt, And Argon2 Password Hashing Algorithms In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47

  Posted on Jun 1, 2021 at 6:45 AM

  @Edwin, Thank you -- when you have a moment, you should read my post. Half of it discusses the interoperability between Password4j and the Adobe ColdFusion 2021 functions. It seems to be pretty good, though I noticed the SCrypt hashing adds and expects the hash to being with $s0 . Not sur... read more »

• Using The "X-Amzn-Trace-Id" Header For Request Tracing Through Amazon's Load Balancers

  Posted on May 27, 2021 at 5:57 AM

  @All, Continuing on in this investigation, now that I have the Request-ID in the Amazon ALB logs, I want to get it in the Nginx access logs as well. I can do this with a custom formatter: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4055-including-tracing-headers-in-nginx-1-18-0-access-logs-using... read more »

• Using The CSS Function calc() Inside The LESS CSS Preprocessor

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 4:55 AM

  @Phil, Oh man, I would love to get to AngularJS 1.8 🙏 I was able to take one SPA (Single-Page Application) and upgrade it from 1.2 to 1.7, which was a decent-sized effort. But, the main SPA is so much larger. One of the big breaking changes that I've found in my exploration is the chang... read more »

• Working Code Podcast - Episode 023: Clean Code By Robert Martin (Part 2)

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 4:51 AM

  @Andrew, Really great feedback. This is actually something we were discussing off-air as well. I think we all realized that it would have been much better to be reviewing the book as we read it rather than in one go at the end. Not only would it have made the content easier for us to rec... read more »

• Pro Tip: Using The say Voice Synthesis Command After A Long-Running Task

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 4:44 AM

  @James, You are the master of all things command-line :D Thanks for sharing the Windows-oriented approach. Using an LED sounds fun. I remember when the Raspberry-Pi came on the scene, people went mad for LED shenanigans. I had to Google for "TSV" - I don't think I've ever seen th... read more »

• Using ColdFusion Custom Tags To Create An HTML Email DSL In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47, Part XV

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 4:41 AM

  @Chris, I really love the concept of Tag Islands in Lucee. It's a killer feature. I would have loved to have combined some of those cases into something more dynamic with the CFModule tag, as in: <cfmodule template="../core/html/ #node.xmlName# .cfm"> But, in Lucee... read more »

• Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13

  Posted on May 22, 2021 at 7:13 AM

  @All, One place that I just used Tag Islands is when I needed to invoke a CFImport -based ColdFusion custom tag inside a CFScript context: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4052-using-coldfusion-custom-tags-to-create-an-html-email-dsl-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47-part-xv.htm I don't think ... read more »