One of the fun things about immersing myself in BoxLang these past few months is my expose to other products from Ortus. Most recently, I've been doing some contracting with a client that makes use of ColdBox, which for my non-CFML readers out there is probably the most well known, and probably most popular, framework for building enterprise web applications with ColdFusion. As part of that work, I've been integrating TestBox, a testing and mocking framework that works well with ColdBox, but ...| Raymond Camden
I've been using Algolia for my search on this blog for years and absolutely love the service. At a high level, Algolia is a hosted search service that lets you easily create search indexes (think of it as a search optimized version of your content) while also providing easy libraries to add a search UI to your page itself. If you type in the search bar on top and perform a search, you'll see this yourself. My site here is static, all simple flat files with no database, so a solution like Algo...| Raymond Camden
Determining if a number if abundant, deficient, or perfect.| www.raymondcamden.com
This one's been sitting in my "to do" blog queue for sometime now and I figured the beginning of spooky season (September 1 - don't we all start celebrating Halloween then?) was a good excuse to finally kick this out the door. Many, many years ago I learned to love one of the simpler features of ColdFusion, the debugging output. This is a feature ColdFusion has probably had for near twenty or so plus years and while it's not the same as a "full" debugging service (which also exists), or the p...| Raymond Camden
Using AgentQL's scraping APIs with BoxLang to extract pure data from a web page.| www.raymondcamden.com
