Raymond Camden

Back in May I announced my new role at Foxit as an API evangelist. At the time, I couldn't talk much about what I was working on (although the title kinda gives it away), but yesterday we launched our new offering and I can finally share some news about it, and even better, some code.

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Forgive the somewhat cutesy title. I hate vague titles that only serve to be clickbait, but given the subject, I couldn't help it. This post is about AI, specifically Generative AI, with BL, AKA BoxLang. This has always been possible with BoxLang and any GenAI service that had a REST API, but recently the team released an impressive AI Module that makes this a lot easier. So what does it do?

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It's been a while since I touched my <table-sort> web component, but last night I had a few interesting ideas and thought I'd do a quick update. For folks who may not remember, I first blogged about this way back in March of 2023. The basic idea was to take an existing table, wrap it in my web component, and sorting would be added automatically. Nice and simple.

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Greetings, programs. This has been a quite excellent weekend so far, and today will be awesome for one reason alone - there's not one dang thing on our calendar. A day with nothing to do is a glorious day indeed. I spent this morning finishing prestige 10 in COD and catching up on my comics ("One World Under Doom" is incredible). Now let's get to the links...

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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!)

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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:

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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.

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