Justin Treher

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• Feature Flags Book: Feature Flags, An Introduction

  Posted on Apr 12, 2024 at 7:38 PM

  Hi Ben, Just wanted to check to see if you read this book as a reference? https://www.amazon.com/Feature-Management-LaunchDarkly-Discover-production/dp/1800562977 I've read your book about 2.5 times now and this is the only other big resource I've found. I know that if we aren't using Launch... read more »

• Feature Flags Book: Life Without Automated Testing

  Posted on Mar 27, 2024 at 7:09 PM

  Ben, This chapter is just wild. However, I realized that Facebook is (was?) well known for not using QA and not writing any unit tests. They mitigated risk by dogfooding via the internal Facebook for work platform and insane metrics that came out of lower environments and alerted every bas... read more »

• Feature Flags Book: Life-Cycle Of A Feature Flag

  Posted on Dec 28, 2023 at 12:31 AM

  What's in scope of your platform team? I know that some orgs interpret project/product/platform teams differently.... read more »

• Early Access: Feature Flags - From Concept To Cultural Revolution

  Posted on Dec 7, 2023 at 1:07 PM

  There is always python!... read more »

• Early Access: Feature Flags - From Concept To Cultural Revolution

  Posted on Dec 6, 2023 at 8:29 PM

  Got your book, Ben. I enjoyed what I'm seeing so far. I was surprised you opted for CFML examples. It shouldn't be a big deal, but consider a note about arrays starting with 1 rather than 0 which might come up in an example or two causing the reader to be confused. Also consider mentioning... read more »

• You Can Reference Your Derived SELECT Columns In Your ORDER BY Clause In SQL

  Posted on Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12 AM

  Ben, Temp tables are specific to the connection session. That means that care must be used to determine if they exist and manage their existence. Typically, we build and drop the temp table, using it much like a "variable" inside a single cfquery. Table variables and temp tables share a l... read more »

• You Can Reference Your Derived SELECT Columns In Your ORDER BY Clause In SQL

  Posted on Sep 19, 2014 at 7:57 AM

  Hey Ben, Cool tip. Just a tip for the tipper. When you are doing SQL examples, it is usually better just to use temp tables so we can easily drop it in and run. <cfquery name="friends" datasource="testing"> (SELECT 1 AS id, 'Tricia' AS name INTO #TEMP ) UNION ALL ... read more »

• The 7th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st, 2014

  Posted on May 30, 2014 at 1:57 PM

  @Ben, I guess these young developers will never know how good we had it in the 00s.... read more »

• The 7th Annual Regular Expression Day - June 1st, 2014

  Posted on May 30, 2014 at 1:25 PM

  This is much less risque than in years past. What happened?... read more »

• Join Me At InVision - We're Looking For Another ColdFusion / JavaScript Developer

  Posted on Feb 29, 2012 at 2:58 PM

  Ben, Is InVision under Epicenter? How is that structured?... read more »