2026-10-25
This information was collected for an meetup on the topic of "Morality and Usage of AI in Games" for the Monterey Bay Game Developers Meetup on Sunday, October 25, but we ran out of time before we could have the discussion.
Here's a working agenda so a facilitator can run it in roughly this order, but each section stands alone.
Prepared 2026-10-26 for code that must run unchanged on Adobe ColdFusion 2016-2025, Lucee 5/6, and BoxLang 1.x, against SQL Server 2019.
The four runtimes disagree about what "reserved" means, and the safe set is the union of all four, not the intersection. Three distinct failure modes show up:
| <!--- 2026-08-12 11:06 - standardizeTimestamp UDF - Because ParseDateTime is a black box and doesn't support all date/time strings. ---> | |
| <cfscript> | |
| public string function standardizeTimestamp(required string timestamp, string timeZone="America/Los_Angeles") hint="I parse common date, time and timestamp strings (including ODBC literals and compact digit forms) and return them normalized to provided time zone as yyyy-mm-dd HH:nn:ss" { | |
| var input = trim(arguments.timestamp); | |
| var zoneId = createobject("java", "java.time.ZoneId").of(arguments.timeZone); | |
| var dtfClass = createobject("java", "java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter"); | |
| var outFormatter = dtfClass.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); | |
| var enLocale = createobject("java", "java.util.Locale").ENGLISH; | |
| var litType = ""; | |
| var m = ""; |
https://x.com/hrswatigupta/status/2060722921493176528
Posted by Swati Gupta (@hrswatigupta) on X
I tried to cancel 4 subscriptions yesterday.
Three of them forced me to call, wait 45 minutes, and listen to a "retention specialist."
Saved from https://x.com/thetripathi58/status/2063290403839947131
A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
Extracted from the DistroKid upload form markup. Genre IDs are the stable
value keys submitted by the form. Both dropdowns share the same ID space.
All 43 base genres are available as a Primary genre. The Secondary dropdown offers the same list except Classical and Soundtrack, which are primary-only.
| <cfscript> | |
| /** | |
| * Converts a markdown table string to a ColdFusion query with VARCHAR columns. | |
| * James Moberg - 2026-04-17 myCFML.com / SunStarMedia.com | |
| * https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/4bc3d41106b1da4f8511020985ecd350 | |
| * @markdown The markdown table string to parse. | |
| * @return A query object with columns derived from the table header. | |
| */ | |
| public query function markdownTableToQuery(required string markdown) hint="Converts a markdown table to a CF query with VARCHAR columns" { | |
| // Local closure: parses a single markdown row into an array of trimmed cells. |
| <cfscript> | |
| /** | |
| * Reorders query rows based on an explicit list of ID values | |
| * Uses a temporary sort column and Query-of-Queries for reordering | |
| * 2025-12-05 | |
| * v1 | |
| * James Moberg - MyCFML.com https://www.myCFML.com/ | |
| * Sponsored by https://www.SunStarMedia.com/ | |
| * https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/4aba2a516a3d84a48255c3401d76b29f | |
| * @param queryData The query to reorder |
| <!--- | |
| 11/10/2025 11:17:33 | |
| Custom Tag "thisTag" scope test. | |
| Call this as a custom tag using a CFTag or cfscript | |
| <cf_TestCustomTag> | |
| or | |
| cf_TestCustomTag(); | |
| ---> |
| <cfscript> | |
| // How do CFML platforms increase an integer? Is datatype/class faithfully retained? | |
| // 2025-10-24 (Updated 2025-10-29 with more tests) | |
| // by James Moberg - www.myCFML.com | |
| // NOTE: Test this on TryCF.com (CFFiddle doesn't allow the use of getMetaData.) | |
| test = [ | |
| "platform": (server.keyexists("boxlang")) ? "BoxLang" : server.coldfusion.productname, | |
| x: javacast("int", 0) | |
| ]; |