Best Served Cold

Why do you use CFCs?

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:11:00 -0700

Derek Perez has a bit of a dilemma, and its one I am rather familiar with. His problem is that he likes to use CFCs, and has been using them for quite a while now. Actually, that's not really the problem. Really, his dilemma is trying to convince oth...

cfcUnit Site Unavailable

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:36:00 -0700

So, it seems that there was a problem with DNS for the cfcuit.org domain, and the cfcUnit website is currently down. Go ahead and try it, I swear it doesn't work. I checked. Anyhow, I fixed the problem with the registrar, but as with anything involv...

Lots of great ideas

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:12:00 -0700

I would like to thank everyone that offered suggestions for what they would like to see in the next version of cfcUnit. Many of these are great ideas, and some will certainly be added to the core framework. They have given me something to focus on an...

Your thoughts on unit testing

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:15:00 -0700

I have spent these last few months working on the next release of cfcUnit 1.2, so it has been on my mind quite a bit. While I add important functionality to the framework like a remote service for Flash Remoting and a rather robust Ant task and fix s...

You want it, you got it!

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:34:47 -0700

Ok, so I have finally gone and done it. A number of people have been giving me a bit of grief over this, and while the cfcUnit site hasn't yet been updated, I have gone ahead and made available for download cfcUnit's next release, 1.2 Beta 1. The ...

All this talk of cfcUnit is making me nervous...

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:58:00 -0700

There are a number of people writing of the improvements in the latest version of cfcUnit, and I have not been one of them. So, you might be wondering why. Well, this last month since CFUnited, I have been busy making cfcUnit 1.1 ready for full...

cfcUnit at CFUnited

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:50:00 -0700

There has been a lot more attention paid to testing CFCs this year at CFUnited, and cfcUnit is right there at the front when discussing unit testing one's CFML. Perhaps the biggest proponent of unit testing has been John Paul Ashenfelter and his talk...

Are you a nerd?

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:31:07 -0700

Its not as high as others, but I've got more time to make up the difference!

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:24:44 -0700

Do you write maintainable code? I'll bet you think so, but some might not agree...

How to Write Unmaintainable Code

Tartan 1.0.5 Preview coming soon

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:00:50 -0700

For those who are interested, the next version of Tartan (1.0.5) is coming soon. In the last couple of months I have gone ahead and made a number of changes, and I figured this would be a good time to introduce them. Property Manager - tartan.cor...

Dave Ross and ColdSpring at the Fusebox Conference

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:20:25 -0700

Dave Ross has been asked by numerous people to speak about ColdSpring at the Fusebox Conference this year, but needs interested people to justify attending. If you are interested in learning more about ColdSpring and how it fits with the other framew...

Tartan at Fusebox and Frameworks 2005 Conference

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:15:21 -0700

Well, I have been invited to speak at the Fusebox Conference this year on Tartan. I will be giving an overview of the idea of service oriented architecture and how Tartan fits into the landscape of ColdFusion frameworks including Fusebox, MachII an...

Some time to reflect...

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:36:12 -0700

Well, with CFUnited over and done with, there are quite a few things to reflect on. I don't think I am ready to say anything yet, but I think tomorrow I will be able to share my thoughts. Stay tuned...

New Tartan presentation available via Breeze

Wed, 18 May 2005 16:34:12 -0700

A couple of hours ago I gave a presentation introducting Tartan via Breeze. If you weren't able to watch it live, you can watch a recording.

Unit tests to the rescue!

Tue, 17 May 2005 13:49:00 -0700

It's amazing what you discover about your code when you try to write unit tests for it after the fact. When I was developing Tartan some months ago, all the testing I did was manual. I just checked that it acted the way I wanted to under certain conf...