Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session at cf.Objective(), he officially unveiled the Open BlueDragon project. He walked the (fairly large) audience through downloading and running the binary distribution of OpenBD on both Tomcat and JBoss and noted that...
I figured this event deserves a much broader audience. If you haven't attended an Online ColdFusion Meetup event, this would be a good place to start. Announcing a new meeting for The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group!
As a fan of unit testing, I was interested to hear about a new mock object generator project appearing in the CF world. I've been using Brian Kotek's ColdMock for a while and I really like how easy it makes it to test CFCs that depend on several other CFCs...
As many folks know, I’ve long been an advocate of Paul Kenney’s cfcUnit unit testing framework. I felt it offered the most solid code base and the best all-round feature set in a package that was idiomatic for ColdFusion developers.
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I'm working with just three clients right now and with each of them I am essentially doing the same thing: taking an existing system that has been built up over a number of years and helping them rearchitect it for better maintainability and better scalability.
I've done more than a few posts recently about error handling and robust exception information, so I thought I'd write up one entry that can serve as a nice guide for folks to bookmark.