In our last user's group meeting, we had a round table discussion about testing. I said that I would put together a simple example of a unit test.
Since I have been using CFUnit so far (MXUnit looks attractive as well though), that is what I will use for my example. The principles should work the same for any common testing framework.
This week has another great assortment of blog entries on a wide selection of topics including a couple of authors that haven't appeared on the list previously (whose last names I was unable to find).
This week had CFUnited and plenty of news came from that. Consequently, I will have the normal top picks and then a few bonus categories related to CFUnited.
This week one ColdFusion podcast goes and a new one arrives, as ColdFusion Weekly stops after a great two year run and CFConversations gets started.
If you are already using CFCs and you know about CFTHREAD then there is nothing for to see here, move along.
I was in a conversation with another developer recently about the advantages of CFCs. I felt that I did a poor job explaining the advantages.
Yesterday, I used CFTHREAD for the first time and in so doing ran across a great example of one of the advantages of CFCs.
This week saw the long awaited release of Transfer 1.0 as well as the announcement that CFML Engine, Railo is going open source. Blog entries for the week include great discussions on SQL and on commenting.
In belated celebration of the newly declared "Regular Expression Day", I thought I would cover just one of the many way in which regular expressions makes my life easier.
When I read Ben's entry and saw that he uses regular expressions every week, I thought "I don't use them that often". Within in hour of that thought, however, I was on the phone with a fellow programmer discussing a problem for which regular expressions was a great solution.
This week saw some continuation of last weeks discussions as well as some really useful posts about performance when dealing with data.
This week had a really great selection of entries. I had to eliminate some entries that I thought everyone should read in order to get down to five. Be sure to read the comments, often they are just as valuable as the entry.
I decided to use FullAsAGoog this week. As advertised, much higher signal to noise ratio. Still, I think I will use Adobe Feeds (nee MXNA) as well next week to make sure I don't miss anything. Don't forget, new Hot Fix for ColdFusion (thanks Todd Sharp).
