PHP: looking at spatie/async
G'day:For no good reason at all, other than it piquing my interest, I've decided to mess around with spatie/async, which is - in its own words:[A] small and easy wrapper around PHP's PCNTL extension....
View ArticlePHP: I need another two devs
G'day:I'm revisiting an article I posted in December, fishing for a coupla devs: I need another two devs. I parked that because we re-evaluated the direction we were going to take our replatforming...
View ArticleCFML: runAsync doesn't seem very asynchronous on Lucee
G'day:I was wanting to compare how other languages dealt with the promise-style async processing, as I was not completely convinced by what I was seeing when investigating spatie/async in the previous...
View ArticleLucee bug surfaced by CFWheels's "architecture"
G'day:Well here's a fine use of my frickin time.Lucee's released a new "stable" version and we're being encouraged to use it. Today I upgraded my dev environment to Lucee 5.3.10.120 (from 5.3.9.166...
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ColdFusion: bug in runAsync
G'day:In my article yesterday ("CFML: runAsync doesn't seem very asynchronous on Lucee") I mentioned in passing that I'd found a bug in ColdFusion's runAsync implementation. I wasn't focusing on...
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PHP: looking at spatie/async some more
G'day:I'm getting back to this spatie/async library today (see "PHP: looking at spatie/async" for the first part of this).Previously I have just been passing a callback to the add function when adding...
View ArticleTIL: something new about regex processing that made me feel dumb
G'day:I like to think I'm reasonably confident with my regex usage, indeed have in the past written at length on regex implementation and usage in CFML (summarised here: "Regular expressions in CFML"...
View ArticleCFML: ColdFusion 2023 is in public beta now
G'day:As posted in the CFML Slack channel by Adobe ColdFusion star, Mark Takata, CF2023 is in public beta now. One can sign up for it here:...
View ArticlePHP / PHPUnit / TDD: unit testing abstract classes. Or not.
G'day:One of my colleagues at work asked me about this, but it's a good topic to think about, so am gonna write about it here.The question was pretty much as stated in the subject line there "if we...
View ArticleFAO ColdFusion users: you need to address a critical vuln in your system
G'day:Just in case you happen to read this blog, but not Charlie Arehart's one, pls go over to his blog and read his article "ColdFusion March 2023 emergency update, and what to do about it", and...
View ArticleCFML / TestBox: spying on a method without mocking it
G'day:Whilst looking for something else, I came across a ticket in TestBox's Jira system the other day that I had voted for a while back: Ability to spy on existing methods: $spy(). About a year or so...
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PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation...
G'day:This new PHP app we're shifting in at work is gonna be running Symfony. The other bods on the dev team have been working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", and I figured I pretty much ought to as...
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PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 2: creating a...
G'day:Sit. rep.OK so last time (PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1: preparation and pre-requisites (and not actually any Symfony!)) I didn't make much Symfony progress,...
View ArticleSymfony / Doctrine / DBAL: convincing/configuring it to use a...
G'day:A while back I documented how to create/configure a PrimaryReadReplicaConnection connection in PHP. PrimaryReadReplicaConnection is the replacement for MasterSlaveConnection, which has been...
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PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 3: doing some...
G'day:Today I'm gonna continue working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part 3 of this series, after the first two:PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1:...
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PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 4: not really...
G'day:Once again I'm gonna continue working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part four of this series, after the first three:PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track",...
View ArticleChanging where I home my source code dramatically speeds up my Windows / WSL2...
G'day:This is more an admission of "not initially thinking things through" on my part, but the outcome has helped me a lot, so in case there are others out there who don't think things through, maybe...
View ArticleChanging my WSL Bash prompt to include my current Git branch
G'day:Note: there's no real original research / thinking in this. it's just the result of me googling stuff, and arriving at a result. I'm writing it mostly so I have a record of it.Yesterday I shifted...
View ArticleGetting Windows Terminal to open my Ubuntu Bash session in the right directory
G'day:This is a follow on from the previous two articles:Changing where I home my source code dramatically speeds up my Windows / WSL2 / Docker environmentChanging my WSL Bash prompt to include my...
View ArticleCFML: Into the Box 2023
Howdy partner:Well here's something interesting (well: to me, anyhow). I will be attending the Into the Box conference in Houston, TX in May (17th - 19th). This has come about due to a very kind...
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PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 5: Twig stuff,...
G'day:I'm back on the case working through "Symfony: The Fast Track". This will be part five of this series, after the first four:PHP / Symfony: working through "Symfony: The Fast Track", part 1:...
View ArticleI'm a big meany again
G'dayChortle:I'm new to cf development and recently joined the cfml slack community. I noticed some curmudgeonly posts from this fella at first and didn't think anything of it... I'm now realizing that...
View ArticleCFML: solving a CFML problem with Java. Kinda.
G'day:The other day on the CMFL Slack channel, Nick Petrie asked: Anyone know of a native or plugin-based solution to pretty-formatting XML for display on the page? I'd like to output the XML nested...
View ArticleOT: Starfield
G'day:I finally relented on the Steam nagging screen, and am writing a review of Starfield, which I have been playing pretty much daily since it was released. I just noticed I'm writing an essay rather...
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Design patterns: singleton
G'day:(Long time no see, etc)The other day on the CFML Slack channel, whilst being in a pedantic mood, I pointed out to my mate John Whish (OG CFMLer) that he was using the term "singleton" when all he...
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