Using StringBind in BoxLang / / No Comments Ok, to be honest, this is going to be a pretty lightweight post as it’s about a simple little string function in BoxLang, but as I discovered it rather recently and was intrigued by what it did. So first off – how did I find this? In the BoxLang docs, there’s a whole section on built-in functions and a subcategory just for string. I was looking it over and realized there were quite a few that I had not known existed. There are some interesting ones in there like pascalCase and snakeCase. I was pretty sure I knew exactly how these worked, but I went ahead and built a quick demo that demonstrates both: Ok, that works well enough, but let’s talk StringBind. StringBind... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, StringBind, using
Building a File-Based Router in BoxLang / / No Comments Earlier this week I took a look at BoxLang’s new rewriting feature (("URL Rewriting with BoxLang MiniServer")[https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/08/11/url-rewriting-with-boxlang-miniserver]). It basically boils down to telling the miniserver app, "here is a file I want you to run on a 404", and given that you can write code for anything you would like, it’s really flexible. I like this approach, but it got me thinking, what if BoxLang also supported a non-code based rewriting system, something where you can define paths, and rewrites, in a file? I took a stab at architecting such a feature and thought I’d share. My Inspiration My inspiration for this idea... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, building, FileBased, Router
Love Story 2 – Dressed to Kill! / / No Comments I have given my Meet Cute map a little romantic make-over. Using MapLibre expressions and a bit of creative styling in Maputnik I have managed to transform my Meet Cute base map into something that feels more appropriate for a procedural love-story map generator.Reimagining Place Names with ExpressionsMapLibre allows you to dynamically change label text with expressions, giving you full Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dressed, KILL, Love, Story
On the Market… again (Hire me!) / / No Comments Sadly, I find myself in the same situation I did a few months ago. My time at Foxit has abruptly come to an end. While it didn’t work out, I am incredibly proud of what I was able to achieve in such short time. I’m a bit in shock now, but, I love my work, I love helping developers, and I can’t not work if my kids want to eat. (Rudely they tend to get hungry – like every single day.) As always, if you know me, and know of an opportunity, I’d love any introductions you can give. I got through this once, I can get through it again! Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Again, Hire, market
Earth’s Greatest Hits, Live! / / No Comments Most earthquake apps will show you a map with a bunch of dots. QuakeSound takes those red dots and turns them into sound. That’s right QuakeSound is an earthquake map that actually lets you listen to the planet rumble in near real time. QuakeSound takes data from the USGS Earthquake GeoJSON Feed and represents it in two ways: visually, on an interactive Leaflet.js map, and aurally, via Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earth’s, Greatest, hits, live
Adding Programming Language Detection with Built-in Chrome AI / / No Comments As I’ve been playing, and thinking, more and more about how to best add Chrome AI support to web apps, I came across an interesting use-case that I think could be helpful, and like in my previous examples, be completely ok if it didn’t actually work. When I write on the developer blog at Foxit, I make use of WordPress plugin for code samples. This editor has a place for you to both paste in your code, and select the language so the proper highlighter is used: This works well enough, but it gets a bit annoying to have to constantly keep selecting Python in the dropdown. Ideally the form would use the last language (simple enough via LocalStorage), but I was curious how well Chrome’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, Builtin, Chrome, Detection, Language, programming
URL Rewriting with BoxLang MiniServer / / No Comments BoxLang recently released it’s 1.4 version, and one of the cooler parts of that update was many improvements to MiniServer. MiniServer is a lightweight web server that makes it easy to spin up and test BoxLang web applications. Updates in the last version included automatic .env loading (which is coming soon to the boxlang CLI as well), websocket support, health checks, and more, but the one I care the most about is URL Rewriting support. Rewrite support is fairly simple. To turn it on, pass --rewrites when running boxlang-miniserver. This will use the file index.bxm for any request that doesn’t match a file (no matter what the extension). You can also specify a particular file as... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, MiniServer, Rewriting
The Trump Appeaser’s Map / / No Comments Donald Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin next week. He also says that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories”.I thought it might be worth creating an Appeasers Map to visualize an area of land roughly the size of Crimea overlaid on top of the United States. You can drag the shape around to see which areas of the United States you would be most prepared to give to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Appeaser's, Trump