Angeli Wahlstedt

Recent Blog Comments By Angeli Wahlstedt

• Using Labeled Loops In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 2, 2023 at 11:40 PM

  Very interesting. I've been coding in CF since late 1990's, and I had no idea the labels existed. One real-world example using them would be scraping documents for specific types of data. (Scraping is one of my specialties, and trust me, there's a lot of conditional logic going on in scrapi... read more »

• Using "return" To Short-Circuit A CFML Template In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 18, 2023 at 12:22 PM

  I'd been using cfexit method='exittemplate' cuz I was under the impression that cfexit without any atributes functions the same as cfabort. As a matter of fact, the docs at Adobe for cfexit says, "If this tag is encountered outside the context of a custom tag, for example in the base ... read more »

• Using "return" To Short-Circuit A CFML Template In ColdFusion

  Posted on Mar 15, 2023 at 9:04 PM

  Very cool and certainly shower to type than cfexit method='exittemplate' :-) But I wonder if it is kosher enough to use in production code? I looked quickly at Adobe's online docs but didn't find anything.... read more »

• Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS

  Posted on Dec 17, 2020 at 2:12 PM

  @Ben, LOL. I'll go check that out now. :-)... read more »

• Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS

  Posted on Dec 16, 2020 at 4:08 PM

  Very cool! And for grins, I looked into whether node.js could do this with output going to a terminal window. It turns out that node.js does it differently in either of 2 ways: escape sequences and the "colors" package. Here's a link to a good article explaining all this in case an... read more »

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

  Posted on Sep 25, 2020 at 8:44 PM

  Amen. Well said. (I probbly should write more but I'm kinda brain-fried right now. :-) )... read more »

• Creating Pixel-Art Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Using CSS Box-Shadow In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61

  Posted on Sep 22, 2020 at 12:38 PM

  Hiya -- that is one of the coolest CFM apps I've seen. That and some of your other blog posts (which I've been following for a little while) have inspired me to download and install Lucee to try out this pixel-art app. I've been doing ColdFuison programming since late 1990's but I didn't hav... read more »