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• ↓ Preventing Silent Database Value Truncation In ColdFusion
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• ↓ Building My Own Syntax Highlighter API With Claude Code
• ↓ Programming As A Hobby In The Age Of AI
• ↓ Creating A StructPop() Function In ColdFusion
• ↓ Code Kata: Creating String Interpolation Templates In ColdFusion
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"Databases are truly magical. Not only do they allow us to persist data across requests and server restarts, the sheer volume of operations that they execute is mind-boggling. They are the true work-horses that drive my ColdFusion applications. Which is why I felt so betrayed, some years ago, when data was getting silently truncated in one of my blog authoring workflows. I've long since fixed the issue; but I've only just now taken it upon myself to add logic in my Application.cfc that performs boot-time assertions about the state of my datasource and the underlying MySQL database in order to prevent this from happening again... read more →"

"As much as possible, I've always wanted to have complete ownership over the mechanics of my blogging platform. And while I use advanced 3rd-party libraries, like jSoup, Flexmark, and AntiSamy to implement workflows, I still feel like I "own" the orchestration of those workflows. Syntax highlighting — for fenced code blocks — has been the last strong-hold in my ownership journey. For years, I've been relying upon the GitHub Gist API in order to apply syntax highlighting to my code snippets. With the use of Claude Code, however, I'm finally ready to bring syntax highlighting in-house and under my control... read more →"

"For the last quarter century, I've experienced the "hobby of programming" as the gift of a four-way win. Meaning that practicing the art of programming created harmony across four major aspects of my life: work, home, community, and self. This has been nothing less than miraculous with regard to my quality of life. But this window of unfettered joy is closing in the age of AI (specifically with agentic programming). And it's been difficult for me to reorient myself to this new reality... read more →"

"It's amazing what kind of problems you can solve with a handful of simple data structures. But, the elegance of those algorithms is, in part, constrained by the elegance of the underlying data structure APIs. For example, the Array.pop() and Array.shift() methods — which simultaneously read-from and delete-from the given array — are extremely useful and bring a high degree of readability to your algorithms. And although ColdFusion finally brought pop() and shift() style methods to the language a few versions ago for arrays, there's no equivalent for structs. As such, I wanted to look at what a Struct.pop() method might look like... read more →"

Key Topics & Focus Areas for bennadel.com:

Preventing Silent Database Value Truncation In ColdFusion

Tag Cloud (ie, Posts by Topic)

Building My Own Syntax Highlighter API With Claude Code

Programming As A Hobby In The Age Of AI

Creating A StructPop() Function In ColdFusion

Code Kata: Creating String Interpolation Templates In ColdFusion