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.
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).
CF_BlogPicks June 23, 2008
This week had CFUnited and plenty of news came from that. Consequently, I will have the normal top picks and then a few bonus categories related to CFUnited.
CF_BlogPicks June 16, 2008
This week one ColdFusion podcast goes and a new one arrives, as ColdFusion Weekly stops after a great two year run and CFConversations gets started.
Components and CFTHREAD
If you are already using CFCs and you know about CFTHREAD then there is nothing for to see here, move along.
I was in a conversation with another developer recently about the advantages of CFCs. I felt that I did a poor job explaining the advantages.
Yesterday, I used CFTHREAD for the first time and in so doing ran across a great example of one of the advantages of CFCs.
CF_BlogPicks June 9, 2008
This week saw the long awaited release of Transfer 1.0 as well as the announcement that CFML Engine, Railo is going open source. Blog entries for the week include great discussions on SQL and on commenting.
