A question in more than 140 characters
G'day:I'm just wondering what you think, and can't fit the question into a Twitter message.Say I have a function which takes a string, and returns the numeric represent of that string in the context of...
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Unit Testing / TDD - refactoring existing code
G'day:I've just had a new submission in the CFLib queue, and as it's an easy one to test and release, I'm gonna jump on it and get it out there today. However I want to test it first, plus I want to...
View ArticleResponse for Russ
G'day:I feel like writing more in response to Russ than Twitter messaging will sensibly allow, so am doing a quick blog article instead.The context is as follows:Thread for blog articleNote that the...
View ArticleGroovy: G'day World
G'day:I'm investigating some ColdFusion stupidity (more on that after this article), and as part of my comparison of the behaviour in other languages, I figured I should also test on another JVM-based...
View ArticleCFML weirdness with chr(0)
G'day:I was trying to help someone on Stack Overflow y/day with their question "How to pad a string with null/zero-bytes in ColdFusion & difference between CF on MacOS and Windows". The question is...
View Article500: to put things in perspective
G'day:In August, Ray posted this: "Over 5000! (Almost...)".So it puts things into perspective that this is only my 500th article. Still: I've only been going for 513 days, so that ain't bad. Almost one...
View ArticleFor the sake of completeness: createLocalisedDayOfWeekAsInteger(): a closure...
G'day:A coupla days ago I continued my TDD / unit testing series with an article "Unit Testing / TDD - refactoring existing code". This engendered a few comments, none of which paid any attention to...
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Something I'd not looked at before: ColdFusion security sandboxes
G'day:Russ posted a question on Twitter yesterday:has anyone else had problems with security sandboxes not working in #coldfusion 10, as in everything works even when it is disabled— Russ Michaels...
View Articletrycf.com
G'day:One of our CFML community colleagues has dun good. Abram Adams has created a site trycf.com, which deserve our attention and our support. It's based on the same concept as tryruby.org, which is...
View ArticleI should pay attention to what my readers tell me! expectException()
G'day:Sometimes I don't pay attention very well, or my attention span wanders...... what was I saying?Oh yeah, MXUnit. And me not paying attention to good advice people give me. I've just adjusted a...
View ArticleThings I don't know much about: SEO and WordPress
G'day:A reader has sent me an email asking for help, but I don't know much about the topics they're asking about. So perhaps you lot can offer some insight...Here's the email (unedited, except where...
View ArticleHelp me with some code, if you have a moment: numberFormat()
G'day:Hey, I'm trying to come up with the most expedient way to effect this. I have a number which could be zero or more decimal places. If there are zero decimal places, I just want to display it as...
View ArticleQuicky: another feed going to @CFBugNotifier
G'day:If you follow @CFBugNotifier on Twitter (and if yer a CF developer, you should be!), you'll not I've started another feed to it, reporting along the lines of:Untriaged ColdFusion 10 bug count:...
View ArticleA rare mishit from Railo: function caching
G'day:Railo are pretty much where it's at as far as enhancing CFML goes. Adobe - due to a criminally long dev cycle, and seemingly complete ignorance of web development trends & practices - just...
View ArticleMicha offers Railo-centric feedback on Adobe's CFSummit ColdFusion 12 promises
G'day:I meant to post this ages ago when it was more relevant, but it got buried in my in box.Back when I posted the article "CFSummit: interesting ColdFusion 12 stuff " (whilst CFSummit was actually...
View ArticleNot really news: Railo does grouped looping in CFScript
G'day:I've recently been trying to be more positive about CFML... I get a bit of shit from people who think being honest about my impressions of ColdFusion equates to being negative. Bleak, perhaps,...
View ArticleGetting the word about CFML out there: Wikipedia (etc)
G'day:This is a bit of a "random thought" more than an article. My focus on this blog at present is to catch up with responding to people's comments, before writing anything new. I've got another 1-2...
View ArticleBouquet for Adobe: Frank Jennings is a star
G'day:Myself along with a coupla others gave the poor quality of the ColdFusion docs a bit of a battering on Twitter last night:Now that the @coldfusion documentation is a wiki, we can go in and add...
View ArticleUnit Testing / TDD - switching off MXUnit, switching on TestBox
G'day:This article is more an infrastructure discussion, rather than examining more actual testing stuff. The ever-growing *Box empire has recently borged into yet another part of the CFML community:...
View ArticleUsing TestBox to find bugs... but not in a way I expected
G'day:I've been off work today because I need to use up my annual leave before the end of the year, and have basically been parked in front of the computer all day. A bit of a busman's holiday,...
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