Scheduling Code in BoxLang

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While I was busy getting utterly overwhelmed by deep AI talks at Arc of AI this week, BoxLang released it’s third release candidate, and while there’s multiple goodies in there, the schedular is the one that interests me the most. Currently the only docs are in the release notes, but there’s enough information there to get started. Here’s a quick look at what’s been added. First off – just in case it isn’t obvious, the idea here is to write code that can execute by itself on some predefined schedule. There’s multiple different use cases for this – performing backups, refreshing data from an API, logging stats and so forth. In BoxLang, scheduled... more →
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Watch me suffer with React more in tomorrow’s Code Break!

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So my last Code Break was… painful. My experience trying to learn React did not go well. Because of that I thought strongly about giving up, but what fun would that be? Join me tomorrow (March 18th) at 12PM CST where I’ll, once again, try to learn some basic React features and get a trivial web site built. Will I make it? Probably not! But you can come join me and cheer/heckle me on! I hope to see you there: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-03182025/ Raymond Camden… more →
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Code Break this Thursday – Ray Finally Learns React

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Ok, so if you attended my last Code Break session you know I was hinting that I was really excited for my next one. For years now I’ve wanted to give React a fair shake and actually try to build something with it. Finally I’m making time to do so. This Thursday at 12PM CST, my next session will be: I Don’t like React. Let’s Learn React! To be clear, it isn’t that I dislike React, it’s just that every time I’ve looked at the code, it just didn’t gel with me. I know it’s incredibly popular, but I always felt like if I needed to build a proper "web app", I’d just use Vue (despite my feelings about Vue 3, feel free to ask me in... more →
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Christmas Code Break – Next Tuesday

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Hello friends. The next, and final (for the year!) Code Break will be Tuesday, December 17th, one week from today. I’ve got some surprises in store and would love to use this last session to answer questions from my audience. If you’ve got a question you would like me (and others – oh wait, that’s part of the surprise!) to answer, leave me a comment below and I’ll try to get to it. I hope to see you there! RSVP here: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-12172024/ Raymond Camden… more →
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Next Code Break – December 5th

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Hey folks, just a quick note. My next Code Break show will be this Thursday, December 5th, at 12PM CST. I apologize for the randomness of these sessions. My goal in 2025 is to get them a bit more consistent. We’ll see how well that works out. 😉 To RSVP for the next show, head over to https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-12052024/. I’ll be doing more building on a blog with Eleventy. I’m also hoping to have another session later in the month! Raymond Camden… more →
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Executing Dynamic Code in a Reveal.js Presentation

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Please take what follows with a Titanic-sized grain of salt and do your best not to do what I did, but despite that, I thought this little hack was interesting and I figured I’d share it anyway. I typically use Reveal.js for my presentations, especially when talking about the web platform, as it makes it easy to do slides and demos, all in my browser. Usually when I want to embed live code in a slide, I just use a CodePen embed. While this works well, sometimes it feels like overkill for real short code samples. I wondered if it would be possible to execute code directly in the slide itself such that I could show a one-liner in the slide, and then the result after. This is what I came up... more →
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Next Code Break – Blogging with Eleventy

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Hey folks – my next <Code><Br> will not be this Tuesday as I’ll be presenting at API World (assuming American gets me there today) so I’ve pushed back the livestream till Thursday, November 7th. Usual time – 12PM CST. You can read more about the event here: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-11072024/ I’m going to be discussing Eleventy and building a basic blog. I’ve wanted to cover Eleventy on my show for a while but was waiting for 3.0 to come out. Now that it has – I can’t wait to introduce it to folks. Hope to see you there! Raymond Camden… more →
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Take a Code Break Tomorrow

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Just a quick note to my faithful readers out there – tomorrow, October 22nd, at 12PM CST (Cool Standard Time), I’ll be hosting my next episode of <Code><Br>: In the previous stream, I talked about charting with JavaScript, specifically using Chart.js. In this followup, I’ll attempt to use another library so we can compare and contrast. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a lot of fun. (I really enjoyed the last stream.) And with this being the last stream before Halloween – I may even dress up! Raymond Camden… more →
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