Weekend quiz: my answer (Go version)
G'day:I sat down on Saturday / Sunday and taught myself enough Go to be able to answer the quiz question from "Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything really...)". I've...
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Book review: REST Web APIs: The Book (win a copy here)
G'day:If you're a CFML user, you probably already know that one of the cornerstone members of the CFML community - Adam Tuttle - has recently written a book "REST Web APIs: The Book". I had the...
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JavaScript: Jasmine for unit testing
G'day:At work, I've been tasked with getting the team up to speed with TDD whilst we redevelop our website in PHP. I knocked together a presentation on the subject a coupla months ago, but before...
View ArticleCFML: Assignments in conditional statements. Yes or no?
G'day:I have to bang this out in 18min, as the pub is calling (it's Xmas Eve Afternoon). 17min. Crikey.So this interesting thread cropped up on the Railo Google Group: "CFIF bug". It so transpires this...
View ArticleLearn CFML in 24 hours: chapter 0
G'day:I've been mulling this over since I released the CFScript docs on Github. I made a point of saying it was not aimed at teaching CFScript, it was just a reference. I then started thinking about...
View ArticleA bit of fun: #Code2014
G'day:The Hybrid Group are doing a bit of a fun Twitter survey of language usage in 2014. See here:Tweet what programming languages you used this year with hashtag #code2014 then check out the latest...
View ArticleCFML: More on (moron?) assignments being expressions. Or not
G'day:This is just a follow-up to my earlier article "CFML: Assignments in conditional statements. Yes or no?".I can firm up my position on this now. To "no".Firstly Sean pointed out some woolly...
View ArticleBrad tries
G'day:This is just a heads-up. Brad's having a go at <cfclient>: "My First Foray Into CFClient". He's blogged about his initial challenges, and it makes for interesting reading.In an epicaricatic...
View ArticlePHP: messing around with Silex, Pimple & Guzzle
G'day:As you know, I've recently shifted most of my attention in my day job from CFML to PHP. This has had a coupla false starts: firstly I was needed back on the CFML team for a while to oversee some...
View ArticlePHP: help me understand calling a callback in PHP
G'day: This flummoxed me yesterday, and I wonder if anyone can cast any light on the scene for me.I've got this sort of situation:class TestCallback { private $callback; function...
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Another quick code puzzle (any language)
G'day:Yeah, I'm a bit cheeky suggesting another quiz when I've not yet found time to review all the answers for the last one (Something for the weekend? A wee code quiz (in CFML, PHP, anything...
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Getting Clojure installed and running and "G'day World"-ing
G'day:This is just another one of those article about my experience with working out how to get a language operational in my dev environment. All it really serves to do is to demonstrate there's not...
View ArticleCFML: design brain-fart in Application-specific DSN definitions on ColdFusion
G'day:This article is just some analysis (and opinion, unsurprisingly) on the situation described in this bug ticket: "THIS.datasources changes ignored until CF restart".In ColdFusion 11 (and Railo 4)...
View ArticlePHP: trying to get async HTTP requests working via Guzzle
G'day:Last week I started looking at a few frameworks on PHP: "PHP: messing around with Silex, Pimple & Guzzle". In that article I set up a basic Silex-driven site, using Pimple for managing...
View ArticlePHP: async requests using Guzzle and request pools
G'day:This'll round out my investigations into Guzzle for the time being. Yesterday I looked at "PHP: trying to get async HTTP requests working via Guzzle", and got that working with only a coupla...
View Article"Learn CFML in 24 Hours" status
G'day:You might remember this: "Learn CFML in 24 hours: chapter 0" back in Dec. I've not had much more to say about it, but I am working on it. I have that sketchy draft of chapter 0, and also pretty...
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Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but...
... out and out plagiarism sux.G'day:As you hopefully know, a coupla months back I wrote a document "Documentation for CFScript". This document is on GitHub for everyone to reference and collaborate...
View ArticleREST Web APIs: The Book... competition winner
G'day:A few weeks ago I ran a "competition" to win a copy of Adam Tuttle's "REST Web APIs: The Book" book.I have to admit that it'd slipped my mind until I was reminded about it a coupla days back.In a...
View Article"Regular expressions in CFML" link summary
G'day:This is not a very interesting article. I just need a list of links to other articles for my book.Regular expressions in CFML (part 1: overview)Regular expressions in CFML (part 2:...
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