Breaking change to Elvis operator behavior in ColdFusion 2016
Example of Breaking Change This code runs differently in CF11 and CF2016: But this is apparently not a bug and is in fact the result of a bug fix.
Category: programming
Keys with undefined value are missing when converting to JSON
Ran into a quirk with JSON.stringify() recently. If you have an object with some keys of value undefined, they will be omitted when converting to JSON: I’m sure there’s a good reason for this (it’s in the spec after all), but I had some data that needed those keys to be conserved. Luckily there’s an […]
Learn You Some Nashville Numbers
I created a little game that can help you learn to use the Nashville Number System. Check it out here: Learn You Some Nashville Numbers (source) I also created a port of the game using Ember.js which was fun to put together. One of the main challenges of the port was trying to maintain game state […]
Translating Ruby to Javascript
While going through this Ruby on Rails Getting Started guide, I ran into a code example that felt really strange and hard to parse. (I think that I might be addicted to braces (and parentheses).)
Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows
UPDATE: Apparently this is a common problem, so if you want to go the easy route then use http://railsinstaller.org and disregard the rest of this post. I’ve been trying to get Ruby on Rails installed for the last couple hours and ran into some snags, but I finally seem to have overcome them. This page […]
Ember.js tutorial vids
I’ve started to investigate Ember.js recently, and found this website with some great screencasts for getting started with the framework: Ember 101 Check it out!
ColdFusion Error: Element USER is undefined in SESSION
But I defined Session.User in the OnSessionStart method! How is this possible?? Turns out, if there’s an error in the OnApplicationStart method, then OnSessionStart will not run before your OnError method is called. And if your OnError method tries to log the Session variables it expects to be there, it will throw this error. Live […]
To Node or Not to Node
I’ve been hearing about Node off and on for a while now, but haven’t really looked into it very deeply until now. I’ve really come to enjoy JavaScript as a language since discovering jQuery a couple years ago. (Before that I tended to shy away from it because it was just so frustrating to deal […]
How to force quirks mode in IE7 (while keeping to standards mode in IE8+)
If you put an HTML comment above the doctype declaration, it causes IE7 to enter quirks mode, but not any other browsers.