I Finally Got Hooked on the Eclipse Kool-Aid
The Eclipse Open Source IDE coupled with the CFML plugin, CFEclipse, has been embraced by the ColdFusion community for years. All of my sites were... more »
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Ant Build Templates: Prelude
I’ve long been an Ant enthusiast and advocate for its use beyond simple Java compilation tasks. A while back, I wrote a post, available in my... more »
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My Approach to Test Driven Development Part 3 - Testing Against a Database
Confidently unit testing code that relies on a database is troublesome. There are many different approaches and many opinions on the matter. I've... more »
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Free Adobe Connect Accounts
I have been bugging Ryan Stille, Nebraska ColdFusion User Group Manager, about letting other user groups in the Omaha community (mostly Omaha Rails... more »
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Using jQuery to Scroll to the bottom of an Element
I have been working on a little AJAX application using jQuery and ColdFusion using JSON to communicate with the page through components. One of the... more »
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Quickly Understanding Selenium
Selenium is an open source, simple web site testing and automation platform. I say it's a "platform" because it can't really be classified as just a... more »
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Considerations in moving from Subversion to Git, Mercurial or another DCVS
A lot of development teams use Subversion for source control management. With Distributed Version Control Systems (DCVS) like Git, Mercurial and... more »
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Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations
"If you're still using HTML, JavaScript, complicated server deployments, and other technologies that don't "just work," try downloading the free Adobe... more »
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A year as a ColdFusion developer... now what?
What a new software developer who learned ColdFusion on his first job thinks and struggles with...
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Mylyn 3.0: Code at the Speed of Thought
Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk provides both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get... more »
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Scraping Google SERPs with ColdFusion
This was my first attempt to combine regular expressions with cfhttp. It’s pretty handy once you get the hang to it, and it can be a very powerful... more »
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Reducing software defects: 10 things to keep in mind
I've been involved with software development for over 12 years now. Over that period I've been a developer, architect and a project manager in... more »
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SQL Injection Part II (Make Sure You Are Sitting Down)
Back in February I wrote a blog post on SQL Injection that included an example of how a malicious user might inject into a character field even though... more »
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Coding standards, do you use them?
Does your development environment use coding standards, particularly around variable/method/file naming?
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SvnTask - A New Ant Task for Subversion
I like it when people email me cool stuff. Today Jon emailed me about adding his new project SvnTask to my Ant wiki. SvnTask is a super simple... more »
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Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison
Scalability, OS, Other uses, Resources, Price grid
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How Mylyn Changes the Way I Develop
Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways....
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Eclipse 3.4 New Project Feature (working sets)
After upgrading to the new Eclipse 3.4 Platform I am pretty excited about a couple new features. This one is more of a time saver for me and some may... more »
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Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse
Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it... more »
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Refreshing Eclipse Workspace using ANT
I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant... more »
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Cool Ant file trick and concept
I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept,... more »
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Closures for Java
Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Your MOM Is The Future Of The Web: WebNext
Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.
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ColdFusion 8-Enhancements You May Have Missed
ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release... more »
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Mach-II 1.5 Application Skeleton
I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and... more »
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