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• Forcing Lucee to re-check the physical paths of application defined mappings without a restart (15 Oct 2020)
  If the physical path of a mapping is missing when an application starts, an incorrect value will be cached for the life of the server. Here's how to force Lucee to re-evaluate mapping paths without a restart.
• Loading java libraries dynamically in Lucee (without JavaLoader) (26 Jun 2020)
  JavaLoader is no longer the only way to load third-party java libraries in Lucee dynamically and without fear of class clashes.
• Generating large spreadsheets more efficiently using SXSSF (25 Nov 2019)
  Creating large spreadsheets can be resource intensive and lead to timeouts or out-of-memory errors. POI's "streaming XML" (SXSSF) format can address this problem.
• Using Lucee's simple parallel processing appropriately (25 Jul 2019)
  Lucee 5 makes it really easy to execute loop iterations in parallel. But not all loop operations will benefit, and the approach needs to be applied with care.
• Uploading files via a Taffy REST API in CFML (8 Mar 2019)
  Using multipart forms isn't the only, or necessarily the best way of uploading files, especially when doing so via a REST API.
• Getting started with Elasticsearch using Lucee Part 2 (27 Sep 2018)
  A basic introduction to querying an Elasticsearch index using Lucee CFML
• Getting started with Elasticsearch using Lucee Part 1 (27 Sep 2018)
  A basic introduction to setting up an Elasticsearch index using Lucee CFML
• Replacing Query-of-Query in Lucee with simpler, faster alternatives (4 Sep 2018)
  Query-of-Query seems useful because the SQL syntax is familiar. But it's known to be slow, and there are better alternatives.
• CFML: Sorting an array of objects by a specific property (22 Aug 2018)
  How to take an array of CFML objects and sort it by a specific property of the object
• Lucee 5: simpler queryparam syntax for SQL IN conditions (13 Jul 2018)
  In Lucee 5 you can directly pass an array of values as a SQL query parameter