Michael Born — Fullstack software engineer. When I'm not debating the finer points of software development, I can be found pedaling furiously along a winding country road.
I recently began taking a simple Typescript course, and I thought I'd share my notes here in blog form. Typescript, if you've been living under a rock, is a Javascript superset which implements strict typing and transpiles to normal Javascript. Utilizing strict typing gives developers much better tooling for catching typing errors sooner in the development cycle.
I turned a simple task (migrate data from an MS Access database) into a Lucee extension which wraps the UCanAccess JDBC driver.
I've seen a lot of discussions revolving around ColdFusion and whether it is inherently a "legacy" language. There are dozens of blog posts proclaiming the death of the language, and every comment seems to share a story about just how "legacy" CF is. Today, I'd like to look closely at why so many dare to call us a legacy language, and what we can do about that.
In this post I'm going to take two Lucee only higher-order array functions, arraySome() and arrayEvery(), and explain their use and purpose. I'll also review the concept of a higher-order function, as well as the Super Cool (yet very little used) lambda expression available in Lucee 5.