TDD presentation
G'day:A coupla weeks back I was tasked with giving a presentation to the new PHP troops: an introduction to TDD. I'm not on the PHP team now, but they might need to be doing some TDD shortly, so I...
View ArticleRailo won the Bitnami competition
G'day:This just came in the e-post from Bitnami:Hi Adam,Thank you for voting to add Railo to the Bitnami library in our monthly contest. Good news - Railo received the most votes and will soon become...
View ArticlePHP & CFML: mapping and reducing
G'day:I'm trying my hardest to answer PHP questions on StackOverflow these days, but the PHP community is so large and my PHP knowledge is so neophytic that I am never an early-enough bird to catch the...
View ArticlePHP: array_udiff()
G'day:I'm not too sure how interesting this article is gonna be, but for the last coupla days I've been trying to solve a problem using array_udiff() to filter elements from one array based on their...
View ArticleSomething for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)
G'day:Just to demonstrate I have not an original thought in my head, I am plagiarising the topic of this article / quiz from a question on Stack Overflow. It's also inspired by Duncan's "Project Euler"...
View ArticleColdFusion 11: a decent bugfix update has been released to beta
G'day:I just noticed this: "ColdFusion 11 Update 3 is available for early access".Looking at it, it's pretty impressive / optimistic: over 100 issues fixed.As with all ColdFusion updates, test it in...
View ArticleColdFusion: Adobe kinda trumped me to this
G'day: An article I've been drafting in my head is a suggestion for Adobe as to how they can make the ColdFusion release cycle less painful for their clients. They've actually done part of what I was...
View ArticleSomething after the weekend...
G'day:This is just a follow-up to my Friday article: "Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)". There's a bunch of good entries: cheers for that. There's CFML,...
View ArticleColdFusion 12: instead of and ...
G'day:I was asked to comment on Microsoft's announcement that the entire .Net Framework is going open source (".NET Core is Open Source"), and what we - the CFML community - should think about that in...
View ArticleWeekend quiz... what's happened?
G'day:Yeah, I know I've been slack with the results from the weekend quiz ("Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)" and "Something after the weekend..."), but...
View ArticleWeekend quiz: my "answer" (PHP version... which doesn't quite work)
G'day:Again, apologies for the delay here. I had a busy week and then yesterday was sidelined due to needing to go to the pub to watch the rugby. Still: better late than never... here's the beginning...
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Weekend quiz: my answer (CFML version)
G'day:This is another follow-up to "Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)". Yesterday I posted my PHP version of a solution: "Weekend quiz: my "answer" (PHP...
View ArticleWeekend quiz: my answer (Ruby version)
G'day:I'll move on from this topic soon, rest assured. Having come up with a CFML answer for my quiz question ("Weekend quiz: my answer (CFML version)"), I decided to stretch myself (albeit slightly)...
View ArticleWhat should CFML's deleteAt() method return?
G'day:This will be quick, as I'm out of time before I'm due to start work.As I mentioned in my earlier article ("Weekend quiz: my answer (CFML version)"), Railo's (and ColdFusion's for that matter)...
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Weekend quiz: ChrisG's answer (CFML)
G'day:OK, now I'm gonna look at each person's submissions for the quiz ("Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)").Chris has done a CFML version. He was very quick...
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Railo "unexpected" behaviour: opinions solicited
G'day:This will be one of those really quick ones as I have precisely 19min of lunchtime left to write it.Ryan Guill found some oddness with Railo yesterday, with code like this:function...
View ArticlePHP: a survey about date data handling
G'day:I'm just going to regurgitate the intro paragraph to the survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XV9ZP8W) here:I'm in the process of teaching myself PHP, having come from a CFML background. One...
View ArticleMy answer to a question on Stack Overflow about DI
G'day:I'm re-posting this here, hoping to get feedback from the DI doyens like Sean, Brad and Luis. Plus it's an easy article to post whilst I get together my article about Dave's Python code (from the...
View ArticleThe Adobe ColdFusion Team are doing a bloody good job at the moment
G'day:I know I am the first (and loudest, and most repetitive...) to whinge about Adobe's ColdFusion lads (/ladesses), but... fair's fair... there's very bloody little to complain about at the...
View ArticleWeekend quiz: Dave's answer (Python)
G'day:I'm continuing to look at each person's submissions for the quiz ("Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)").Dave's done a Python version. Like Chris just...
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