John D Farrar

Recent Blog Comments By John D Farrar

• Building-Up A Complex Objects Using Form POST-Backs In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 5, 2022 at 6:42 PM

  @Ben, agree. Just was not a good choice of words. In the spirit of Ortus and the community you definitely did modernize the approach.... read more »

• Building-Up A Complex Objects Using Form POST-Backs In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 5, 2022 at 4:21 PM

  Brain K. used to have a CFC that did something simular. Look at the buildFormCollections method. https://github.com/sosensible/Collaboration/blob/master/share/objects/collaboration/FormUtilities.cfc... read more »

• Proof-Of-Concept: Injecting Features Into An InVision Share Link Experience Using AngularJS 1.6.7

  Posted on Nov 23, 2020 at 7:27 AM

  Why hasn't this been upgraded beyond Angular 1.x? Not cynical here, but with the belief that there are always tradeoffs are we waiting for a compelling reason to update, just not needed or what is the thinking?... read more »

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

  Posted on Sep 25, 2020 at 12:44 PM

  Candice Owens also enlightened my perspective. Many years of my life we were OK, or as you said fine. There were a few seasons we were not fine though. At times I felt like the victim. The point isn't to compare victimhood, but rather to say it is rare people who have not experienced it on s... read more »

• Are There "Dark Matter" Designers?

  Posted on Jul 1, 2020 at 8:02 AM

  While there may be dark matter designers, that seems like someone who would go crazy in the round robin project flow designers and typically have between them and those they are designing for. LOL, sounds like a bad career mix. To the point of the blog. What you speak of here is the concept ... read more »

• The Affect Of File-IO On Performance Experimentation In Docker And Lucee CFML

  Posted on May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM

  I am curious how that will run on WSL2 with Windows 10 this may at release. I have always found local to be slower than the server, so this is a surprise for me also. Good share Ben! Now we await for the container gurus to enlighten us all.... read more »

• Spreading SQL And CFQueryParam Tags Across Multiple Function Calls In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Apr 7, 2020 at 10:30 AM

  That is awesome. When we do creative SQL we forget to run it against query analyzer.... read more »

• Spreading SQL And CFQueryParam Tags Across Multiple Function Calls In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Apr 7, 2020 at 7:52 AM

  Hacky is not my question. Have you run this SQL against a query analyzer to see if it performs well or not?... read more »

• Exploring The Power Of Multiple Cursors And Selections In Sublime Text 3

  Posted on Mar 30, 2020 at 7:33 AM

  I remember when Sublime was the universal unchallenged champion. Today it depends on your stack. If you use only CFML it's a strong champion. These days we do much more on the front ends that we used to do inside CFML; Angular, React and Vue for instance. When we move to those realms and wan... read more »

• Wrapping The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) For Safe Consumption In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Jan 27, 2020 at 3:19 PM

  So, are you going to package these and post them on ForgeBox?... read more »

• Wrapping The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) For Safe Consumption In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

  Posted on Jan 27, 2020 at 10:49 AM

  Have you tried any of these integrations with Adobe CF?... read more »