Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.| www.raymondcamden.com
I've built a few web games in the past (IdleFleet and Cat Herder are two examples), but what I'm sharing today doesn't really fit into the category of a game. This is going to sound terribly pretentious and I apologize in advance, but what I'm sharing today is more an "experience" for lack of a better term. It's part technical exploration, and part cathartic dumping, and just kinda weird. But honestly, the web needs more weird and I'm happy to contribute to that.| Raymond Camden
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
What was my experience using GenAI tools to design my blog? Well, you're looking at it! As I mentioned last week, my new design came from one of my experiments using GenAI to help me design a new theme, but I wanted to share a bit more about the experience when I had time, and that time is now.| 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
Yeah, I'm not even going to try to comment on this past week. I can say I had two interviews, which I think went well, and I finished some demos I've been working for a while, so that's a positive. Outside of that, just want to not think too much about the state of things and focus on sharing awesome, nutritious links for you to enjoy.| Raymond Camden
A few weeks back, I blogged about analyzing comic books with gen ai, and honestly, it worked really darn well. I extracted the pages with Python, and send them to Google Gemini to create the summary. I was naturally curious to see if this could be done entirely on device, using Chrome's AI support. Here's what I found.| Raymond Camden
Determining if a number if abundant, deficient, or perfect.| www.raymondcamden.com
A look at using BoxLang to build a reader for electronic comic books.| www.raymondcamden.com
So, maybe you're noticing a new look here. Or maybe this is your first time here. Either way, welcome to the new (and hopefully) improved raymondcamden.com, my little home on the internet.| Raymond Camden
Props for this article go to my best friend, Todd Sharp, who yesterday said something along the lines of, "Hey Ray, you should blog a demo of ..." which is pretty much akin to bring out a laser pointer in front of a cat. Not only do I love getting ideas for new demos, his idea was actually pretty freaking brilliant, which means I get to pretend I'm brilliant as well.| Raymond Camden
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
Parsing comic books and sending them for generative AI summaries| www.raymondcamden.com
Using AI to fix a blog that's missing a RSS feed| www.raymondcamden.com
Using AgentQL's scraping APIs with BoxLang to extract pure data from a web page.| www.raymondcamden.com
Using a data-centric API to search for articles based on sentiment.| www.raymondcamden.com
How I added a simple audio preview to my recent Spotify tracks.| www.raymondcamden.com
Another example of front matter - signifying edits (both when and why)| www.raymondcamden.com
