Ben Nadel demonstrates that explicitly provided arguments always override the argumentCollection in ColdFusion, regardless of where in the parameter list they are defined.

Ben Nadel's Blog

29.07.2025

Polyfill URL Search Parameter Grouping Using Bracket Notation In Adobe ColdFusion

Ben Nadel polyfills the bracket notation for both URL and FORM parameter grouping in Adobe ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

29.07.2025

Creating Runtime Extensions And Polyfills In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores the use of CFInclude and CFModule to define runtime extensions and polyfills in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

12.07.2025

Reflectively Accessing Built-In Functions In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel looks at how to reflectively access built-in functions in ColdFusion; and, warns against trying to do it.

Ben Nadel's Blog

10.07.2025

Customizing The Router In The CFWheels ColdFusion Framework

Ben Nadel customizes the CFWheels router / mapper by creating a wrapper component in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

09.07.2025

Sequence Generator Utility

Ben Nadel creates a sequence generator utility for generating incrementing values using a JavaScript template literal.

Ben Nadel's Blog

02.07.2025

Closures Do Not Work In Adobe ColdFusion Custom Tags

Ben Nadel illustrates a bug in the way closures work (or rather, don't work) in Adobe ColdFusion custom tags.

Ben Nadel's Blog

01.07.2025

Using ColdFusion Custom Tags And Modules In CFWheels

Ben Nadel looks at one way to use ColdFusion custom tags and CFModules in a CFWheels application.

Ben Nadel's Blog

30.06.2025

Creating Service Objects In The CFWheels ColdFusion Framework

Ben Nadel looks at how to implement Service objects in the CFWheels ColdFusion framework.

Ben Nadel's Blog

29.06.2025

Pixel Art With Alpine.js

Ben Nadel creates an Alpine.js pixel art exploration.

Ben Nadel's Blog

22.06.2025

Movie Ranking With Sortable.js And Kendall Tau Distance

Ben Nadel explores Sortable.js as a way to create effortless drag-and-drop experiences on the web.

Ben Nadel's Blog

18.06.2025

Encoding "FFFFFFFF" Into An INT In Adobe ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use two's complement to allow Adobe ColdFusion to cast FFFFFFFF to a Java signed int.

Ben Nadel's Blog

17.06.2025

My Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon Entry

Ben Nadel shares his Adobe ColdFusion 2025 hackathon project: "Sitter Snacks", a food menu system for dog sitters and baby sitters.

Ben Nadel's Blog

17.06.2025

Struct Keys That Contain Dots "Just Work" In Adobe ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion can seamlessly access struct keys that contain dots (while other CFML engines require bracket-notation).

Ben Nadel's Blog

13.06.2025

Working Around SQL Namespace Bug In CFWheels Models In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates one way to work around a namespaced Model bug in the CFWheels ORM when pulling back nested resources in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

12.06.2025

Light-Weight DumpModel() Function For CFWheels In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates a dumpModel() UDF that he uses in his CFWheels ColdFusion application to reduce the noise in a CFDump.

Ben Nadel's Blog

11.06.2025

Image Paste Bug In Lucee CFML

Ben Nadel isolates and reproduces an imagePaste() bug in Lucee CFML.

Ben Nadel's Blog

10.06.2025

Ask Ben: Destructuring Complex Queries Into ColdFusion Objects

Ben Nadel explores various ways to output nested data from a JOIN-based query object in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

03.06.2025

Rendering QR Codes With Zxing And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates various ways to render QR codes using the Zxing library in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

03.06.2025

Creating Java Classes From JAR Files In Adobe ColdFusion 2025

Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion 2025 can now load Java classes from an explicit set of JAR files.

Ben Nadel's Blog

02.06.2025

Using InputBaseN() To Encode HEX Colors Into An INT In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to represent an RGBA color as a single, 32-bit integer using inputBaseN() in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

31.05.2025

Using CSS Utility Classes In CFDocument In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to define and consume CSS utility classes in the CFDocument tag in ColdFusion / Lucee CFML.

Ben Nadel's Blog

29.05.2025

You Can CMD+Click To Submit A Form To A New Browser Tab

Ben Nadel demonstrates that forms can be submitted to new browser tabs; and how this creates an implicit "choice" whenever we override the native form submissions in a web application.

Ben Nadel's Blog

26.05.2025

Rendering 1-Dimensional Barcodes With Zxing And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel looks at using the ZXing Java library to render 1D (one dimensional) barcodes in ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

21.05.2025

Creating An hx-event Extension For Triggering Events In HTMX

Ben Nadel creates an hx-event extension in HTMX which will emit a custom event based on the hx-trigger event bindings.

Ben Nadel's Blog

17.05.2025

Considering The Functional Requirements Of A Modal Window In An HTMX Web App

Ben Nadel considers the functionality requirements of a well crafted modal window in the context of an HTMX web application. Modal window are easy to do; but, the are incredibly hard to do correctly.

Ben Nadel's Blog

14.05.2025

Using A No-Content URL To Help Manage DOM Caching In HTMX And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how a no-content URL can be used to snapshot the DOM for history API management in HTMX and ColdFusion.

Ben Nadel's Blog

12.05.2025

HTMX Extensions Have Access To An Extended API

Ben Nadel looks at the API reference passed to HTMX extension authors in the init() method. This is separate from the public API exposed on the HTMX object.

Ben Nadel's Blog

10.05.2025

What Happens When You Mutate The DOM Outside Of HTMX

Ben Nadel sanity checks what happens when we remove DOM nodes outside of the HTMX life-cycle (and whether or not HTMX knows about these changes).

Ben Nadel's Blog

09.05.2025

Sanity Check For Reassigning Method Arguments In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel sanity-checks overwriting an arguments value assignment in ColdFusion. And, comes up with a pattern that works nicely in CFWheels models.

Ben Nadel's Blog

08.05.2025

Returning JavaScript Tags In HTMX And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to respond with JavaScript script tags in an HTMX and ColdFusion response to dynamically run one-off scripts in response to user interactions.

Ben Nadel's Blog

07.05.2025

Core String Functions Will Accept Null / Undefined Values In ColdFusion

Ben Nadel demonstrates that null / undefined values can be passed to most ColdFusion string functions; and they'll be treated like empty strings.

Ben Nadel's Blog

06.05.2025

Using Stale-While-Revalidate Cache-Control Headers In HTMX And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel explores the user of the stale-while-revalidate Cache-Control header in an HTMX and ColdFusion application to improve perceived performance.

Ben Nadel's Blog

03.05.2025

Keyboard Command Extension In HTMX And ColdFusion

Ben Nadel looks at creating a keyboard shortcut extension in HTMX and ColdFusion, allowing links to be triggered directly by key commands.

Ben Nadel's Blog

01.05.2025

Exploring Extensions In HTMX

Ben Nadel starts exploring HTMX extensions in a ColdFusion application, looking at the getSelectors() and onEvent() methods.

Ben Nadel's Blog

29.04.2025

Using :scope To Identify The Host Element In .querySelectorAll()

Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the :scope pseudo-class in .querySelectorAll() to target the host element in a CSS selector.

Ben Nadel's Blog

28.04.2025

Using hx-preserve To Persist Elements Across Swaps In HTMX

Ben Nadel explores the use of hx-preserve to persist elements across page navigation in an HTMX and ColdFusion boosted application.

Ben Nadel's Blog

27.04.2025

Previous / Next <CSS Selector> Both Use A Depth-First Algorithm In HTMX

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the "next <CSS selector>" and the "previous <CSS selector>" use a depth-first node traversal algorithm in HTMX.

Ben Nadel's Blog

26.04.2025

Fetch API Will Propagate Non-POST Methods Upon Redirect

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the fetch() API will propagate HTTP methods during a redirect in JavaScript; but only for non-GET/POST requests.

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Life After Dog

Explicit Arguments Always Override ArgumentCollection In ColdFusion

Polyfill URL Search Parameter Grouping Using Bracket Notation In Adobe ColdFusion

Creating Runtime Extensions And Polyfills In ColdFusion

Reflectively Accessing Built-In Functions In ColdFusion

Customizing The Router In The CFWheels ColdFusion Framework

Sequence Generator Utility

Closures Do Not Work In Adobe ColdFusion Custom Tags

Using ColdFusion Custom Tags And Modules In CFWheels

Creating Service Objects In The CFWheels ColdFusion Framework

Pixel Art With Alpine.js

Movie Ranking With Sortable.js And Kendall Tau Distance

Encoding "FFFFFFFF" Into An INT In Adobe ColdFusion

My Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon Entry

Struct Keys That Contain Dots "Just Work" In Adobe ColdFusion

Working Around SQL Namespace Bug In CFWheels Models In ColdFusion

Light-Weight DumpModel() Function For CFWheels In ColdFusion

Image Paste Bug In Lucee CFML

Ask Ben: Destructuring Complex Queries Into ColdFusion Objects

Rendering QR Codes With Zxing And ColdFusion

Creating Java Classes From JAR Files In Adobe ColdFusion 2025

Using InputBaseN() To Encode HEX Colors Into An INT In ColdFusion

Using CSS Utility Classes In CFDocument In ColdFusion

You Can CMD+Click To Submit A Form To A New Browser Tab

Rendering 1-Dimensional Barcodes With Zxing And ColdFusion

Creating An hx-event Extension For Triggering Events In HTMX

Considering The Functional Requirements Of A Modal Window In An HTMX Web App

Using A No-Content URL To Help Manage DOM Caching In HTMX And ColdFusion

HTMX Extensions Have Access To An Extended API

What Happens When You Mutate The DOM Outside Of HTMX

Sanity Check For Reassigning Method Arguments In ColdFusion

Returning JavaScript Tags In HTMX And ColdFusion

Core String Functions Will Accept Null / Undefined Values In ColdFusion

Using Stale-While-Revalidate Cache-Control Headers In HTMX And ColdFusion

Keyboard Command Extension In HTMX And ColdFusion

Exploring Extensions In HTMX

Using :scope To Identify The Host Element In .querySelectorAll()

Using hx-preserve To Persist Elements Across Swaps In HTMX

Previous / Next <CSS Selector> Both Use A Depth-First Algorithm In HTMX

Fetch API Will Propagate Non-POST Methods Upon Redirect

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