Raymond is an experienced developer evangelist and advocate. He focuses on APIs, AI, the web platform, and enterprise cat demos.
Good morning, programs. I wanted to share some news about two upcoming webinars. The first is my next Code Break show, "Building Desktop Apps with Python and Flet - Part Deux", happening next Tuesday, June 24th, at 12PM CST. As you can tell by the title, I'll be continuing my look at the awesome Flet project and seeing if I can finish the app I started last time. If you don't remember, it's quite deadly... (And be sure to check out the last session for the first part!)
I know what you're thinking right now - a monarch problem? How did Raymond know I had a monarch problem? What can I say, with great age comes great wisdom, or, more likely, random code challenges. I've mentioned "rendezvous with cassidoo" before as one of the newsletters I subscribe to. Authored by the very interesting Cassidy Williams, this short and sweet newsletter always has interesting content and always ends with a basic code challenge, what she calls her 'interview question of the week'. This weeks question was pretty fun:
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.
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 ideally 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:
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.
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!
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.
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