Ben Nadel

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• Using A Progressive-Search Optimization When Filtering Arrays In Angular 10.1.6

  Posted on Oct 19, 2020 at 5:05 PM

  @Hugh, I haven't played with fetch yet; but mostly because I'm in a brown-field app where there is an established AJAX layer. I really like the idea of caching things for a bit - I really wish we explored more caching on the server. Right now, we do in-memory caching in the JavaScript, w... read more »

• Using A Single, Pre-Compiled Keyword Search Target For Filtering In Angular 10.1.5

  Posted on Oct 19, 2020 at 6:20 AM

  @All, A quick follow-up post to this, once you have two different arrays - one for the "all" results and one for the "filtered" results - it means that you can start to add a progressive-search optimization with next-to-no effort: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3910-... read more »

• Ordered Structs Are Perfect For Creating MongoDB BSON Documents In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Oct 17, 2020 at 5:37 AM

  @All, Knowing that ordered / linked Structs are critical for MongoDB queries, I wanted to figure out how I might be able to inspect the type of a Struct such that I might be able to enforce an ordered struct inside a MongoDB gateway component in ColdFusion: https://www.bennadel.c... read more »

• Exploring Postmark Tags For Grouping Related Transactional Emails In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 17, 2020 at 4:20 AM

  @Geoff, Purely historical momentum. We have a lot of code that uses the SMTP approach. That said, it is all mostly encapsulated in a ColdFusion component ( EmailService.cfc ); as such, it would be fairly straightforward to start converting <cfmail> tags to HTTP calls. At the end of... read more »

• Using SMTP Headers To Send Custom MetaData Through Postmark In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 15, 2020 at 6:04 AM

  @All, A quick related follow-up post on using Tags in Postmark: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3908-exploring-postmark-tags-for-grouping-related-transactional-emails-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm Tags, like Metadata, uses a custom SMTP header, X-PM-Tag , and allows us to both view and ... read more »

• Using SMTP Headers To Send Custom MetaData Through Postmark In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 12, 2020 at 6:26 AM

  @Charles, Yeah, agreed - this feels much cleaner. Glad to hear that SparkPost has a similar thing.... read more »

• Reflecting On 40-Years Of Privilege And An Obligation To Vote

  Posted on Oct 12, 2020 at 6:25 AM

  @Tomiwa, Good sir, that is a lovely thing to say - I am touched that this may have affected you in such a positive way! All we can do is baby-step our way to a better society :D... read more »

• On The Virtues Of Being Emotionally Attached To Your Code

  Posted on Oct 12, 2020 at 6:24 AM

  @Kursith, Thank you - I'm glad you found it interesting.... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 10, 2020 at 5:55 AM

  @All, I wanted to do a quick follow-up post using the X-PM-Metadata- prefix that Aaron turned me onto. It's basically the same exact demo as in this post; but, using different SMTP header names: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3906-using-smtp-headers-to-send-custom-metadata-through-pos... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 8, 2020 at 6:25 AM

  @Aaron, This is awesome (Insert "We're not worthy" GIF from Wayne's World)! I've been a customer of Postmark for like 8-years now, and I think - much to my chagrin - that I've not kept up with any of the improvements that they've made over that time. This has given me a wake-... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 8, 2020 at 6:00 AM

  @Charles, I believe that it is the same strategy that newer teams at the company are doing: having both an internal ID that is "easy" and a UUID that is "hard" on each record. We had considered trying to retrofit the legacy app with that kind of approach; but, it'... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 8, 2020 at 4:44 AM

  @Charles, "Danger" here is a matter of perspective. There is nothing inherently dangerous about exposing IDs - having an ID shouldn't give an end-user information that becomes problematic. If all we're doing is trying to prevent an ID from being "guessable", then we h... read more »

• Including Custom SMTP Headers For Debugging Using CFMailParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 7, 2020 at 6:38 AM

  @All, One thing I forgot to define here was the term SMTP . It stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - and it's the standard by which email messages are sent around on the inter-webs. Think of it like HTTP is to a web page as SMTP is to an email.... read more »

• Sand In The Gears As A Metaphor For People's Work Capacity

  Posted on Oct 3, 2020 at 2:12 PM

  @Marcia, Very cool -- I'm glad that you found this on-point with the kind of work you are translating. DevOps is some exciting stuff (much of it goes over my head).... read more »

• RequestTimeout Setting Affects CFThread Execution In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 3, 2020 at 6:24 AM

  @All, This morning, I wanted a quick sanity-check to make sure that a long-running CFThread tag - that exceeds the duration of the parent page-request - can still call "back into" the timed-out page request: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3903-calling-into-a-timed-out-parent... read more »

• Racing To Show Asynchronous Report-Generation Results With CFThread In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 3, 2020 at 6:22 AM

  @All, As a quick follow-up, I wanted a quick sanity check to make sure that making a call from a long-running CFThread tag back into a timed-out parent page context couldn't cause Lucee CFML to explode: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3903-calling-into-a-timed-out-parent-page-conte... read more »

• Racing To Show Asynchronous Report-Generation Results With CFThread In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Oct 2, 2020 at 9:16 AM

  @Zac, Ugg, I had actually intended to have a little addendum about error handling, but I totally forgot by the time I was done writing. You should see the try/catch stuff I usually have around CFThread . I normally break it up into two different functions - one that manages the spawnin... read more »

• Reflecting On 40-Years Of Privilege And An Obligation To Vote

  Posted on Sep 29, 2020 at 7:24 AM

  @Brian, Thank you very much - I'm touched that this resonated so well.... read more »

• Reflecting On 40-Years Of Privilege And An Obligation To Vote

  Posted on Sep 29, 2020 at 7:23 AM

  @John, Very well said. In some ways, it's the progress that we've already made that makes the current world so frustrating. I've become greedy for more progress more quickly because I know that is something that we are capable of , given how far we've already come!... read more »

• Reflecting On 40-Years Of Privilege And An Obligation To Vote

  Posted on Sep 29, 2020 at 7:20 AM

  @Angeli, Ha ha, well thank you kindly :)... read more »