Matthew C

Recent Blog Comments By Matthew C

• The 13th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2020

  Posted on Jun 1, 2020 at 11:27 AM

  Obligatory XKCD in honor of Regular Expression Day: https://xkcd.com/208/... read more »

• Sanity Checking Closure Invocation Overhead And Performance In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Aug 1, 2019 at 6:54 AM

  @ben Got it. Thanks for the explanation, especially that second example. I think I've got a better grasp of it. At least as good a grasp as I can without having used it. Time to acquire some hands on knowledge.... read more »

• Sanity Checking Closure Invocation Overhead And Performance In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 30, 2019 at 10:17 AM

  The closure approach here is really interesting - definitely a paradigm shift for me in terms of how I think about data handling. That the penalty for using it seems minimal is also really encouraging. Could you explain a little further the benefits of this abstraction? Is it that it's DRYer... read more »

• Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE) Work In Lucee 5.3.2.77

  Posted on Jul 18, 2019 at 11:34 AM

  Mind = Blown. Very cool - I did not realize this was supported, thanks for sharing! Will definitely be keeping it in mind, to see if I can find a practical use case, or rather, just an excuse for using it.... read more »

• Gathering CPU Load, Garbage Collection Time, Thread Dumps And Other JVM Metrics In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 13, 2019 at 8:24 PM

  Thanks for sharing this and "paying it forward". Looking forward to trying it out. I'm becoming more and more aware of the need to understand the JVM and Java layer more clearly when working with ColdFusion. Always, always appreciate your insights and explanations!... read more »

• The 12th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2019

  Posted on Jun 4, 2019 at 9:23 AM

  @Ben, Booo for low turnout! Woohoo for winning! With regard to the command line, I am a complete beginner, but I can't say enough good things about this: https://gumroad.com/l/bite-size-command-line - It's extremely practical and makes those incomprehensible man pages actually accessible... read more »

• The 12th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2019

  Posted on Jun 1, 2019 at 12:37 PM

  Of late I've been doing more work with Docker, which has necessitated writing shell scripts and learning more about the command line (full endorsement of Julia Evans Bite Size Command Line zine - very accesible). One of the really powerful commands is sed , which can utilize regular express... read more »

• The 11th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st 2018

  Posted on Jun 1, 2018 at 2:43 PM

  A string is never Too long or complicated To parse with regex.... read more »

• Using The OWASP AntiSamy 1.5.7 Project With ColdFusion 10 To Sanitize HTML Input And Help Prevent XSS Attacks

  Posted on May 30, 2018 at 9:07 AM

  Nice! That was a real rabbit hole... incredibly frustrating. I tried a number of other approaches (fat jars, modified pom.xml builds, etc), none of which worked, so I'm glad to see you were able to get the dependencies sorted out and working. Along with watching the AntiSamy project to see if the... read more »

• After 2013, I'm Looking Forward To 2014

  Posted on Jan 2, 2014 at 12:10 PM

  Hey Ben, No advice here; I just wanted to let you know that, as someone interested in blogging, ColdFusion, and development in general, you and your blog have always been an inspiration. Really, you kick ass (even if/when you don't feel like it) and you've been a huge part of my learning to code. ... read more »