My ColdFusion 2025 Hackathon Submission – QuickTracker / / No Comments Earlier this month, the ColdFusion team announced a hackathon that started today, and ends Monday night. Full disclosure, when I saw the announcement, I thought that the date range is when things had to be turned in. I spent a few hours on what I’m going to share below, but when I found out that the intent was to start today, I wrapped up and stopped. My submission only took a few hours, and outside of a quick readme update today, I feel fine with my submission. And heck, it was fun to build, so I don’t really care if I win (ok, that’s a bit of a lie). With that out of the way, let me share what I created, QuickTracker.cfm. QuickTracker.cfm is based on a tool first built by... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2025, ColdFusion, Hackathon, QuickTracker, Submission
Using BoxLang’s Cache Services / / No Comments Recently I’ve been looking at BoxLang’s Caching service, mostly because the docs were updated which made it easier to dig into it. 😉 My usual expectation for a caching service is typically a key/value system with APIs to get and set and hopefully a simple way to handle expiration. So for example, I can idealy store a cache value and an expiration values at the same time, and if I fetch it later and it’s expired, I get a nice null value back. As I said, that’s the ‘baseline’ for what I expect, so I was kind of blown away, and a bit overwhelmed honestly, with what you can do on the BoxLang platform. At a high level, here’s some of the details: Out of... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang's, cache, Services, using
The Real-Time 15 City Map / / No Comments The concept of the ’15 Minute City’ aims to make urban living more livable and sustainable by ensuring that all essential individual needs can be met without reliance on a car or public transport. It’s a very simple idea: ideally, an individual’s essential needs should be accessible within a short travel distance.Such a simple concept deserves a suitably simple-to-understand map. CThood Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, realtime
Code Break Tomorrow – Desktop Apps with Python / / No Comments Greetings, programs. Tomorrow (June 10th) at 12PM CST (Cool Standard Time), I’ll be hosting my next Code Break, "Build Desktop Apps with Python and Flet". My last two sessions covered building desktop apps with Tauri, a TypeScript/Rust platform, so I’m looking forward to playing with a Python version of the same idea. You can RSP at the link above, or watch right here: Play Video Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: apps, Break, code, Desktop, Python, Tomorrow
Is this the future of Street View? / / No Comments Odyssey has released a demo of its new AI technology that enables users to explore 3D video environments in real time. Odyssey is similar to Google Maps Street View in that it allows users to visually explore real-world environments. However, instead of navigating through static 360-degree photos, Odyssey uses AI-generated streaming video that responds dynamically to user input. The result Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: future, Street, this, View
Links For You (6/8/25) / / No Comments Welcome to another edition of my "this was supposed to be down on Saturday" biweekly list of links. Yesterday my wife and I made pretzels at home for the first time. It was a rather simple recipe that didn’t need any boiling and they came out incredible. We also watched the new Predator movie, Killer of Killers, which was quite spectacular. I definitely recommend watching it when you can. Ok, on with the links! Releative Colors in CSS CSS never ceases to amaze me, despite me knowing I’ll never be really good at it. In this article by Ahmad Shadeed, he introduces the concept of native color modifying in pure CSS. Ie, taking one base color and changing it to be lighter or... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 6/8/25, links
Working with the Mastodon API in BoxLang / / No Comments So remember a long time ago (Tuesday), when I blogged about using the Bluesky API with BoxLang? As expected, I’m following that up today with a look at using the Mastodon APIs. Personally, I’m down to just two social networks, Bluesky and Mastodon. Originally I was using Mastodon a lot more, but I’ve been vibing with Bluesky more lately so I tend to check it more often. That being said, whenever I release a new blog post, I’ve got an automated process to post to both, so I thought I should cover both for BoxLang as well. Even better… I already did this in ColdFusion! Way back in October 2023, I blogged about the topic and even shared a simple ColdFusion component... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, Mastodon, working
Mapping Whale Superhighways / / No Comments The WWF has launched a new interactive map Blue Corridors that brings 30 years of whale migration data to life. Using the map you can:🛰️ See where whales travel.⚠️ Learn what’s putting them at risk.💙 Discover how we can protect them.The new Blue Corridors interactive map is designed to support global whale conservation efforts by visualizing decades of scientific data in a way that is Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, Superhighways, Whale