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Adding TestBox, some tests and CFConfig into my Lucee container
G'day:On Fri/Sat (it's currently Sunday evening, but I'll likely not finish this until Monday now) I started looking at getting some CFML stuff running on Lucee in a Docker container. If you like you...
View ArticleHow (not to) apply a feature toggle in your code
G'day:I've had these notes lying around for a while, but they were never interesting enough (to me) to flesh out into a full article. But feature toggling has been on my mind recently (OK, it's because...
View ArticleWhy I've been looking at CFML again recently
G'day:Just a quick one. You might have noticed that the subject matter of this thing abruptly changed from the usual PHP-oriented stuff, back to looking at CFML-oriented stuff. This deserves an...
View ArticleHeads-up: Disqus is being flaky ATM
G'day:A quick note to advise that I am not getting email notifications of all comments people are making to my blog articles ATM. This is really annoying, and I think makes me seem a bit disrespectful...
View ArticleMisc changes to environment for my ongoing Docker / Lucee / CFWheels series
G'dayThis will be a bit of a scrappy article just summarising some changes to my project environment since the last article in this series on Lucee / CFWheels / Docker; "Adding TestBox, some tests and...
View ArticleOn code review
G'day:I'm pretty big on code review; I see it as a critical part of the process of developing solution for our clients, and making our own and our colleagues' lives easier. It's a useful communications...
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Change in look...
G'day:I see my change in look has been leaked to the public:I hope Adam Tuttle doesn't mind me copying his work.This was taken from Top 30 Coldfusion RSS Feeds. I will touch base with them and ask them...
View ArticleDefinitions of ~
G'dayI'm just building on some thoughts here. Some of the thoughts are from learning from people who know a lot more than me, and from watching my teams through their successes and… "less than...
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How TDD and automated testing helped me solve an Nginx config problem I had...
G'day:I have a "website" I'm building on as part of a series of articles I'm writing about Lucee / CFWheels / Docker. I have a Docker container running Nginx which proxies requests for CFML code to a...
View ArticleCFML: pseudo-constructor polymorphic inheritance expectations management
G'day:Well there's a sequence of words I never expect to write down.I just ran across something that I was reasonably surprised by when I first saw it. But having looked at it some more, I'm not sure....
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Installing and running CFWheels in my Lucee Docker container
G'day:If you've been following along in the previous articles in this series (Lucee / CFWheels / Docker), You'll know I have a set of Docker containers running Nginx, MariaDB and Lucee. I have been...
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Testing: A Horror Story
G'day:My adventures in Lucee / CFWheels / Docker continues. This time I'm looking at what CFWheels offers by way of testing.2021-05-04 - editorial updateIn this article I am very - but I feel...
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abort! abort;!
G'dayWhat do you (CFMLers, sorry) make of this?<cfscript>function f(){ writeOutput("in f<br>") abort}writeOutput("before f<br>")f()writeOutput("after...
View ArticleShort version: getting CFWheels working outside the context of a...
G'day:This is all extracted from my earlier article "Installing and running CFWheels in my Lucee Docker container" from a few days ago. Why am I repeating it? Because it kinda got lost in the morass of...
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Lucee: what now for goodness sake
G'day:I'm just writing this here because it's too long to put in a message in the CFML/Lucee Slack channel, and so I can get some eyes on it.Consider this code (test.cfm):<cfoutput><cfset...
View ArticleSetting up a MariaDB JDBC datasource in ColdFusion 2021 in Application.cfc
G'day:This is how I needed to set my datasource in Application.cfc to get ColdFusion 2021 to connect to MariaDB. I'm writing this because I could not - for the life of me - find this information in any...
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CFWheels: running TestBox instead of RocketUnit
G'day:CFWheels ships with its own inbuilt (albeit third-party) testing framework. I discuss its merits in an earlier article: "Testing: A Horror Story". You can probably work out my opinion of the...
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I play the game "how long will it take me to find a new bug in ColdFusion"...
G'day:Answer: about two minutes to guess what would likely be broken, and I think I had an initial repro created in another minute after that.Last time I tried this it took 44min: "ColdFusion bug...
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Code smells: a look at a switch statement
G'day:There was a section in last week's Working Code Podcast: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt2) where the team were discussing switch statements being a code smell to avoid in OOP...
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CFML: weirdness with… and single-quote escaping
G'day:I was looking around for a good (read: bad) example of one of those exercises in "building a dynamic SQL string inside a <cfquery>". Firstly, one should pretty much never do this. You are...
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