Adobe backtracks on no-support for ColdFusion 10 on OSX 10.9
G'day:I mentioned this the other day: 'So there won't be support for OSX 10.9 "Mavericks" on ColdFusion 10'. I just checked the bug tracker, and ticket 3653076 has now been marked "To Fix". Hopefully...
View ArticleUnit Testing / TDD - why you shouldn't bother
G'day:Here's the second in my intended series covering unit testing and TDD and anything else that springs to mind. Earlier in the week I started the series intended to get straight into code, but my...
View ArticleCFSummit: interesting ColdFusion 12 stuff
G'day:Not that I was at CFSummit, but thanks to Tony Junkes, I saw some interesting slides about ColdFusion 12 (yeah, 12, not 11) which can only lead one to speculate...But first a gripe (hey, this is...
View ArticleComments
G'day:This is a quick apology to people who take the time to comment here.One thing I didn't think about when I started this bloody blog is that people will leave comments. This is really cool and I...
View ArticleAdobe ColdFusion 10 docs now-community maintainable
G'day:This is good news. I have just been able to "fix" an entry in the Adobe ColdFusion 10 docs!James Moberg brought to my attention how crap the docs for arrayEach() were with a Twitter...
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and JavaScript
G'day:Yesterday evening on Twitter, Mike Henke asking a quick quiz question:quick test: if you cfinclude an html file with #cfml does the #cfml get processed? https://t.co/itCTMYSkSC— mikehenke...
View ArticleFollow-up: ColdFusion support for OSX 10.9 - fixed
G'day:Very quickly... I've talked about this twice:"So there won't be support for OSX 10.9 "Mavericks" on ColdFusion 10""Adobe backtracks on no-support for ColdFusion 10 on OSX 10.9"Pleasingly... this...
View ArticleMore on inappropriate use of
G'day:I didn't expect to be revisiting this topic - let's face it, it's definitely "slow news day" material - but Ryan Guill, who I chat to on IRC, put me onto this one, and it was intriguing enough to...
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Unit Testing / TDD - MXUnit and test scenario
G'day:OK, so I've prattled on a coupla times about TDD and unit testing from a theoretical point of view:Unit Testing / TDD - initial rhetoricUnit Testing / TDD - why you shouldn't botherI think today...
View ArticleUnit Testing / TDD - why you should bother
G'day:OK, I actually showed some code in the last entry in this series, but now we're back to me spouting rhetoric (read: waffling on). This stems from Andrew Scott making a very good observation about...
View ArticleMy readers doing my work for me
G'day:Sometimes the comments on this blog are better that the articles themselves. I've elevated one of Sean's comments to a full "guest" article a while back: "An Architect's View: Sean's feedback on...
View Article: source code of CFSummit app
G'day:Being true to his promise, Rakshith (well: actually it was Ram who posted it, but Rakshith announced it on Twitter) this morning posted the source code for the CFSummit mobile app, which was...
View Article: from a pig's ear, a silk purse could rise?
G'day:I've got two muses today: Dan Fredericks who had a go at me yesterday about being a big meany about <cfclient>: and Sean for giving me the "penny-drop" moment. I think the concept of...
View Article: worrying discussion
G'day:The more I read about <cfclient>, the more the alarms bells change from tending towards air raid sirens, and more like the horns of the Rapture (or if you prefer). Here's a series of...
View ArticleColdFusion Builder comes to Linux
G'day:Real quick... this morning Matt Gifford blogged "ColdFusion Builder Linux Support", observing: Many developers have been asking for ColdFusion Builder support for Linux for a long time,...
View ArticleVote for CF.Objective() presentations... even if you're not attending
G'day:There was chatter doing the rounds on Twitter a few days back that there's perhaps not as much community uptake as far as voting for what presentations will be given at CF.Objective() 2014.I've...
View ArticleLocking investigation for Brad
G'day:I will admit I'm not in a blog mood at the moment, hence the silence over the last few days. However Brad Wood has asked for a second set of eyes on some code of his, so here are my findings.The...
View ArticleWeirdness with installing ColdFusion 10 update 12
G'day:A coupla days back update 12 came out for ColdFusion 10: "ColdFusion Help / ColdFusion 10 Update 12". I had some installation "challenges" with it, and have now heard of two other people with the...
View ArticleLondon Railo Meetup, Weds Nov 27
G'day:I'd just like to encourage people in the London / SE part of the UK to come along to the next London Railo Meetup: "Debugging Railo and general Railo discussion". It's - again - being held at the...
View ArticleSynthesised accessors & variable scope
G'day:Whilst vegetating at home last night, I had a look at some code Ryan Guill had posted on the ColdFusion IRC channel. It relates to ColdFusion's ability to automatically create accessors on CFC...
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