MXUnit: Unit Testing for Coldfusion
One of the things I got into recently is the whole idea of test-driven development (TDD). This concept puts testing at the core of development, at the start of the coding cycle and not after you finish coding. It’s definitely worth your while to read up on the good points of working this way, but to give you a few notable benefits of this approach: By writing testing code first, that automatically fails, you can then proceed to improve and/or fix the code/class that it is testing, which then enforces refactoring of new code to meet the standards...
read moreOpen BlueDragon + Railo + ColdFusion on Tomcat | Matt’s excellent article
As a corollary to Sean’s post about running Railo, OpenBD, and ColdFusion on JRun, I thought I’d outline my preferred development environment these days, which is to run all the necessary CFML engines on Apache Tomcat. Note that this approach will work equally well on Jetty, JBoss, GlassFish, or more or less any servlet container or JEE server you choose. Great minds think alike because coincidentally enough, Dave Shuck also has just published two blog posts (part 1, part 2) about setting up a similar environment. I figure I’ll throw mine out there as well because the...
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