Raymond is an experienced developer evangelist and advocate. He focuses on APIs, AI, the web platform, and enterprise cat demos.

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Links For You (7/13/25)

My goal for this series of posts is to share interesting links every two weeks, and I've noticed that sometimes it feels like a split second between when these posts go out. I'm actually a week or so late on this one, which is fine, but dang does time go by quickly. Usually summer is pretty slow, but with the new job, new product launch, and lots of camps for the kids, I don't feel like it's ever let up. Despite that, I've managed to put in near ten hours of Star Wars Outlaws this weekend, so I'm still getting a chance to catch my breath. I put the controller down for a bit so I can share these fun links with yall. Enjoy!

Creating a Calendar with BoxLang - Part Deux

Earlier this week I posted a quick look at building a simple calendar with BoxLang, specifically an HTML one meant for a web page of course. This was a bit complex due to the needs of creating a proper HTML table, but generally I was... ok with the result. Yeah that's nice and vague, but there's some code I could state at and think of alternatives for nearly forever and it's ok to just put it down and walk away. So obviously, I'm returning to it today. Specifically, how to get events on the calendar.

Results from My Vibe Coding Live Stream

Usually for my Code Break shows, I assume if folks miss it they'll just check out the recordings, but while my earlier session is fresh in my mind, I thought I'd share a bit more about the session and a look at the code generated. It actually went a heck of a lot better than I anticipated to be honest, and was fun. To be clear, it wasn't perfect, and I'll touch a bit on what my tool of choice struggled with, but overall I'm really impressed with what I got built in an hour.

Creating a Calendar with BoxLang

Chalk this up to - "Here's a simple idea for a quick and dirty blog post" that turned into a few hours of my holiday weekend. Not only that, this is probably the first of three or so blog posts so... buck up, buttercup, this is going to be a fun ride. A while ago I had written down (well, typed in, I use Microsoft To Do to record writing ideas) the idea of demonstrating calendar creation with BoxLang, specifically creating a dynamic calendar, with or without events, either entirely server-side, or using a combination of client-side code with BoxLang providing the API. For today's post, I'm going to focus on (what I had assumed would be) the simplest version - just rendering a calendar for this month.

Building a CSV Report CLI Tool in BoxLang

Remember some time ago (yesterday) when I wrote about CSV parsing in BoxLang using the opencsv Java library and Maven? As I said then, my initial impetus for that post was to recreate my ColdFusion Hackathon project, but once I got it working, it turned out to be really useful for something completely different.

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