VueJS Easy VueJS Timer Animation Recently I have been writing many dashboard-style applications that call an API on a timer to refresh data points. It is easy enough to throw a loading class on an element to display
ColdFusion Easily Replicate and Consume Data with ColdFusion If you need to iterate over a payload, a small payload is easy to write inline. Dealing with a large payload with arrays of objects with multiple properties things can get out of
ColdFusion A ColdFusion Wrapper for cfhttp I love how easy ColdFusion makes it to be productive, but some things could be a little easier.Much like the fetch command in javascript, CFML engines have cfhttp. Small requests like a
VueJS Reactive background images with Nuxt.js Recently I have been working on a project that changes the background image on the body tag depending on which page the user is on. This is pretty easy to accomplish with jQuery
VueJS Using VueJS to create a drill down filter This week I was trying to track down a weird production error and I was having a bit of a problem. All our issues are logged to a database but the interface, while
bash Fun Friday: Parsing and Building CSV files with bash I have not had a chance to post anything in a while so I thought I might discuss a fun issue I ran across. I will not get in to all the boring
General Happy New Year All in all I would have to say that as far as years go, 2018 was a very good year for me. There are still some things I would change, but all in
VueJS Releasing BillTrackr code base A few months ago I decided to look in to writing a real application with Vue.js. I had dropped it in views with Express before, but this time I was going all
VueJS Vue.js D&D Combat Simulator I suppose I have always been a little bit of a nerd. It was my 12th birthday and my family had just moved to a house that was almost but not quite in
VueJS Vue CLI Test Drive: Vue UI My side projects have slowed down so I have had a bit of time on my hands lately. Since I do not really have anything pressing at the moment I thought it would
Do you know how much you spend on streaming services each month? I was just reading an article that said the average person actually spends twice as much as they think they do on streaming services each month. It is easy to lose track of
VueJS VueJS Filters Filters in VueJS allow you to apply text formatting in mustache interpolations. Filters should be appended to the javascript expression, denoted by the "pipe" symbol.That is a fancy way of saying filters
Auth0 Leveraging Auth0 Rules and Hooks When I switched from a Express based web application to a single page application one of the biggest hurdles I faced was how to handle user authentication. Auth0 solved that issue, next was
VueJS BillTrackr: Converting node-billz to VueJS A year ago or so I dedicated myself to learning NodeJS with a focus on writing web applications with the Express/Mongo stack. I was writing a bill tracking application as part of
Getting started with CommandBox server instances Getting started with CommandBox server instancesAdobe ColdFusion has been around for a long time. Originally released in 1995, ColdFusion made it easy to connect a web page to a database backend. Now we
Cache Hooking Cachegoose to Redis on NodeJS On my last post I outlined the steps required to enable caching using the Cachegoose NodeJS module. I thought it would be a fun exercise to add a Redis caching to the node-billzapplication.
NodeJS Caching with Node and Express Working with payees and payments in node-billz I basically end up loading and reloading the same data on every page. The list of people paid each month will rarely change. The list of
NodeJS Writing a bill calendar with Node and Express Everyone has their “go to” application when it comes to learning a new software stack. I believe every programmer out there has written the venerable “Hello World” application at least once in their
