Steve Bryant

Return a list of related records in SQL Server 2017

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:00:00-0500

I absolutely love SQL (especially SQL Server) and I love how it continually gets better. A little over four years ago, I wrong an entry on how to return a comma-delimited list of records in SQL Server. It turns out, that it is now much easier to d... [More]

Seeking a JavaScript Framework (Part 3: Success!)

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:00:00-0500

So far, I've covered what I want in a JavaScript Framework and then I covered several popular JavaScript frameworks and why none of them are what I want. Just when I was about to despair, however, I ran across a little-regarded framework that does... [More]

Seeking a JavaScript Framework (Part 2: Reviews)

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:00:00-0500

Last time, I covered what I want from a JavaScript framework (and a bit about why). I don't want to rehash all of that (you could read the entry if you cared), but let's start with the table of what I want from the end of the previous entry.

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Seeking a JavaScript Framework (Part 1: Criteria)

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:00:00-0500

Over the course of a few years, I gradually let my JavaScript skills atrophy. My programming partner had more interest in it than I did and so it seemed more efficient to have him do more JavaScript work than I did. That, of course, led to him becomi... [More]

Connecting to Rate Limited Services in ColdFusion

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:30:00-0500

I often need connect to APIs. These APIs often have usage limitations. Specifically, they have rate limits. That is to say limits on the rate (frequency) with which you can use their APIs. This means that any code that calls an API needs to know w... [More]

HTTPRequestLogger.cfc

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:30:00-0500

Like a lot of developers, I we make a lot of external API calls. One thing that can come up when dealing with outside vendors is that sometimes the API connections don't work as expected. On those ocassions, the vender will ask us exactly what data w... [More]

Return a list of related records in SQL Server

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:45:00-0500

I absolutely love SQL (especially SQL Server) and I love how I continually find new ways to solve problems with it. I wish I could remember where I first found this tip to give proper credit, but I really love it. Have you ever wanted to return a ... [More]

Safer and More Dynamic ColdFusion Page Caching with cf_MrECache

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:00:00-0500

I looked at quite a while back and I liked the idea, but it lacked a little bit of flexibility that I wanted in pursuit of my caching strategy. I recently covered MRECache and now I'd like to briefly cover a custom tag that is built around it. ... [More]

Thoughts on Caching Strategies

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:00:00-0500

I've been thinking about caching strategies for different scenarios lately. I wanted to write down a some thoughts on what seem to have been working for me. Hopefully this will help me organize my thoughts and maybe others can help tell me if my thin... [More]

Pluralizing in ColdFusion

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:00:00-0500

A few (ok, ten) years ago, I needed to generically pluralize English words in ColdFusion. Also, I wanted to be able to reverse that out ("singularize" as it were). This should be a really easy problem: If it ends with an "s" then add "es"; If it ends... [More]

Easy Caching in ColdFusion with MRECache

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:00:00-0500

I avoided dealing seriously with caching for more of my programming career than I like to admit. Perhaps the old saw that "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." (Phil Karlton) held me back. Beyo... [More]

Implementing the Observer pattern in ColdFusion with Observer.cfc

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:30:00-0500

Often I want to respond to events in a component, but I don't want it to need to know anything about the component that is taking action on it. This is often when I am using a generic component on my site. The Observer pattern is perfect for this.... [More]

Beany.cfc: Part 2

Wed, 22 May 2019 07:30:00-0500

I wrote earlier about my Beany component for handling Beans (especially immutable ones) easily. I thought this time I'd just cover a few extra little features that I've added to it to make it a bit easier to use. [More]

Beany.cfc

Wed, 08 May 2019 09:00:00-0500

Despite not being a big fan of Beans generally, I do find that there are situations in which they are useful. One of those is as configuration objects to pass in to a component. I can add the data in one packaged set. In reading about Clojure rece... [More]

Git Branching Strategy for Web Development

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:00:00-0500

There is no doubt at this point that Git is a successful version control system. GitHub is, so far as I can tell, the most popular place to host open source code. There are several popular software programs for managing Git and two very popular Git b... [More]