DataMgr 2.2 Beta 1
This is the first release of DataMgr wherein I can't take credit for any of the new features. Although this is a beta release, it should be pretty stable as I am running all of my live sites on it.
sebtags 1.0 Release Candidate Released
After years of working on my sebtags custom tag set, I think it is now stable enough to put it in release candidate stage. If all goes well, this will exactly match the final release which will come out soon.
CF_BlogPicks July 21, 2008
This week has had a tone of great entries, it was really hard to whittle them down to five. The big take-aways from the week: Use unit testing and cfqueryparam.
Why I Don't Do OO
This is an entry that I have been intending to write for some time. I keep putting it off. Perhaps because I don't think I will explain myself well, perhaps because I don't want to be flame-bait.
T.J. Downes recent entry "Why Aren't More CF Developers Using OO Methodologies and Frameworks?" made me decide that now is the time.
He asked those of don't use OO to explain why, so I will do my best to explain why I don't.
CF_BlogPicks July 14, 2008
This week CAPTCHA is broken, RIAdventure is announced and other great entries.
DataMgr "All" for Many-to-Many Relationships
In my last post, I explained how I use an "all" field in combination with a many-to-many relationship to indicate that one record is related to any/all records in the related table (even if new records are added later). I have been using that technique for about three years now with very good results.
In fact, this worked so well for me that I added a feature into DataMgr 2.2 to handle it.
Many-to-Many Relationships and All
Most of us have deal with many-to-many relationships from time to time. This is generally easy. What happens, though, when the client wants some items to be available to all members of the related table?
For example, I might have some articles that are only available to users with certain permissions.
If that were the case, then I might have an articles2permissions table. Then I might pass in a comma-delimited list of permissions when retrieving articles:
CF_BlogPicks July 7, 2008
This week has some really good blog entries on basics of ColdFusion with which we should all be familiar.
I also got my new MP3 player this weekend and listened to the first episode of CFConversations. I think they are off to a great start!
An Introduction to Writing Unit Tests (with CFUnit)
In our last user's group meeting, we had a round table discussion about testing. I said that I would put together a simple example of a unit test.
Since I have been using CFUnit so far (MXUnit looks attractive as well though), that is what I will use for my example. The principles should work the same for any common testing framework.
CF_BlogPicks June 30, 2008
This week has another great assortment of blog entries on a wide selection of topics including a couple of authors that haven't appeared on the list previously (whose last names I was unable to find).
