https://kisdigital.com Deep dives into ColdFusion, Lucee, and BoxLang — modern CFML development, runtime internals, and the future of the JVM web stack. en-us Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:47:52 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/04/stop-memorizing-rsync-flags-use-a-wrapper-instead `rsync-profiles` is a simple bash wrapper that replaces long, error-prone `rsync` commands with named profiles. Define your source, target, and exclusions in an INI-style config file, then sync with a single command like `rsync-profiles myprofile`. It supports remote servers via SSH, dry-run previews, custom rsync flags, and profile listing. Great for anyone tired of fat-fingering remote paths or digging through bash history to find that one sync command they ran three months ago. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/04/stop-memorizing-rsync-flags-use-a-wrapper-instead robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/building-a-better-spider Robert evolved a web scraping service over several years to extract link metadata (Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed, JSON-LD) for social sharing features, progressively hardening it against bot detection, timeouts, and SSL errors. The latest version uses a multi-layered extraction strategy—rotating user-agents, disabling certificate validation, adding browser headers only for non-bot UAs to maximize successful extraction. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:30:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/building-a-better-spider robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/cbwire--computed-vs-data-properties CBWire uses data properties for reactive state that persists between requests and supports two-way binding, making them ideal for form inputs and user interactions. Computed properties are read-only, derived values that are automatically cached per request, perfect for expensive operations like database queries or calculations that depend on data properties. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/cbwire--computed-vs-data-properties robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/so-i-wrote-a-forum-application-in-boxlang Robert shares his experience building DismalThreads, a modern forum application that evolved from his 2022 project renegade-forums. He rewrote it using BoxLang 1.0 and CBWire, a ColdBox module that enables reactive interfaces without JavaScript. He prefers CBWire over frameworks like Vue or React since it uses plain CFML. The site features nested comments, infinite scrolling feeds, notifications, and supports both text and link posts with automatic metadata retrieval. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/so-i-wrote-a-forum-application-in-boxlang robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/using-boxlang-to-process-csv-files-and-push-data-to-an-api-endpoint A vendor sent bulk data as Excel instead of JSON, conflicting with an API endpoint's small-payload limit. A quick BoxLang CLI script parsed the CSV, handled Excel currency formatting, and chunked the output into 100-row JSON files. A second script POSTed each file to the endpoint with SHA-1 auth headers. Total time: ~15 minutes. BoxLang's command-line scripting made it a natural fit for the job. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:15:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/using-boxlang-to-process-csv-files-and-push-data-to-an-api-endpoint robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/it-has-been-quiet-around-here-lately A development folder wipe led to rebuilding this site as Chronicler, a BoxLang/ColdBox 8/CBWire 5 app named after the scribe in Rothfuss's Kingkiller Trilogy. It replaces a static site with a lightweight CMS featuring a CBWire-powered post editor, enabling writing from anywhere. Source release planned once polished. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2026/03/it-has-been-quiet-around-here-lately robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/09/a-few-updates-for-september Introducing bx-setup and boxlang-ssg updates Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:30:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/09/a-few-updates-for-september robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/08/boxlang-ssg A static site generator written in Boxlang Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/08/boxlang-ssg robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/08/running-api-to-csv-scripts-with-boxlang Quick and easy CSV generation with Boxlang CLI Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:30:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/08/running-api-to-csv-scripts-with-boxlang robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/07/chunking-an-array-with-coldfusion-redux Revisiting chunking ColdFusion arrays in 2025 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/07/chunking-an-array-with-coldfusion-redux robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/01/shopify-graphql-query-example Robert shows how to query Shopify GraphQL Admin API Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2025/01/shopify-graphql-query-example robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/12/serving-static-html-content-with-commandbox-multi-server Robert explains configuring CommandBox multi-server to serve HTML files Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/12/serving-static-html-content-with-commandbox-multi-server robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/06/parsing-iso-8601-time-intervals-with-cf Robert explains using ColdFusion to parse and format ISO 8601 time intervals Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/06/parsing-iso-8601-time-intervals-with-cf robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/06/scraping-recipes-using-coldfusion Robert explains using ColdFusion to scrape recipes and return as API data Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/06/scraping-recipes-using-coldfusion robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/setting-up-your-first-boxlang-server Robert explains quickly spinning up a BoxLang server Fri, 17 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/setting-up-your-first-boxlang-server robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/the-law-of-unintended-consequences Robert explains how he broke XML rendering in commandbox-ssg Fri, 03 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/the-law-of-unintended-consequences robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/tidying-up-html-with-jsoup-part-deux Robert shows how to impliment tidy HTML using jSoup, again Wed, 01 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/05/tidying-up-html-with-jsoup-part-deux robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/04/tidying-up-html-with-jsoup Robert shows how to impliment tidy HTML using jSoup Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/04/tidying-up-html-with-jsoup robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/04/setting-up-a-server-with-commandbox-6 Robert demonstrates setting up a new Ubuntu multi-site server with CommandBox 6 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/04/setting-up-a-server-with-commandbox-6 robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder) https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/03/prevent-multiple-youtube-videos-playing-simultaneously Robert demonstrates using the iFrame YouTube player API to prevent multiple YouTube videos from playing on a page Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://kisdigital.com/posts/2024/03/prevent-multiple-youtube-videos-playing-simultaneously robert@kisdigital.com (Robert Zehnder)