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
A Sneak Peek at BoxLang’s Module Feature / / No Comments Last week I attended and spoke at Into the Box, a conference hosted by the Ortus folks, the company behind BoxLang. While there, I attended a talk from Brad Wood on how BoxLang’s module system works. I’ve been using modules with BoxLang since I first started playing with it. It’s how database support is added, mail, PDF, and more. You can see a list of currently released modules here. I had been curious as to how this works so I was excited for Brad’s presentation. While hearing him go over the details, I got even more excited, and literally built a ‘hello world’ module in a minute or so while he talked. I’m calling this blog post a "sneak peek"... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang's, feature, Module, Peek, Sneak