- Posted by bcarr on 04.06.2010 12:13 PM | 14 comments
We recently hired on a new and very capable CF developer at work and part of the preparation required to ready the team for a new addition is to ensure our project documentation is current and understandable. No sooner did I undertake this small task than did I realize I would have to make some updates and adjustments to our documented coding standards. As I sifted through the information I couldn't help but feel compelled to share some of the more prominent points with the rest of the CF community in order to garner some critical review.
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- Posted by bcarr on 03.31.2010 9:50 PM | 6 comments
Rest web services are a powerful and simple way for your software to expose a friendly web-based API and facilitate integration between your system any any number of external clients - regardless of platform (AJAX front-ends included!). In this screencast; CFCommons Visuals; ReST Web Services with Powernap - Part 1, I detail how easy and painless it is to create Rest endpoints with minimal code leveraging the org.cfcommons.context API and the newly released Powernap plugin.
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- Posted by bcarr on 03.23.2010 9:30 PM | 0 comments
I'm happy to announce the release of beta version 0.8.338 of the ColdFusion Common Modules Project library! Aside from a handful of changes dealing primarily with infrastructural enhancements and bug fixes, there are two new items that deserve special attention; The new Instrumentation library (org.cfcommons.instrument), and the Powernap HTTP Context Plugin for ReST web services.
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- Posted by bcarr on 03.19.2010 2:23 AM | 1 comments
Moving pictures, not only a transcendent Rush album, but an efficient (and fun!) method of absorbing a lot of information in a short amount of time. Welcome to the inaugural installment of the CFCommons Visual Tutorial Series. In this screen-cast I delve into the goodness of the Context module and give an informative overview of the PluggableContext with brief introductions of the Neodymium and Security standard plugins.
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- Posted by bcarr on 03.13.2010 10:27 AM | 12 comments
I'm willing to bet that any developer who has worked with unit testing in the past can attest to the unique sense of deep spiritual satisfaction that only a successful execution of a battery of unit tests can elicit. An inexorable early warning system for the soul. Geeky - absolutely, but this general sense of well-being is of course rooted in something very real and while it's no guarantee of complete functional correctness, it goes a long way to helping us sleep better at night knowing the software - you know, works.
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