I got home late last night after a long 5 hours drive to NC and then I slept like a baby for more than 12 hours. My sessions went really well especially on Saturday as I wasn't expecting such a great attendance. Seeing 30-35 people in the class on the last day of conference (almost the last session) really made my day. This was my first time speaking at CFUnited so it was all a wonderful experience. As mentioned during the session, I'll be posting the code and the slides on my blog later. Thanks to TeraTech for putting together such a wonderful and exciting conference.
I am speaking at this year CFUnited on "Continuous Integration with ANT, SVN, CFUnit and Selenium". Charlie Arehart, who runs the ColdFusion Online Meetup group, gladly accepted my offer to do a short preview before the conference. You can find more details and RSVP here http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/8130696/ As mentioned on the meetup site, this is not the full presentation and just a preview to give CFUnited attendees a chance to decide if they want to see this presentation at the conference. The session starts at 6:00 PM (EST)
CFPrototype toolkit can be used to create html prototype of an application. We have been using something similar at work where we develop software by using the Fusebox Lifecycle Process (FLiP). FLiP focuses on obtaining feedback from the client early in the development cycle. HTML prototypes are created that have minimal code logic and database interaction. The focus is on making sure that the layout and presentation are correct. This is accomplished by using a threaded discussion system in this prototpye toolkit. The client can make comments on any page in the prototype by using the notes at the bottom of each page. The client and the developers collaborate on the prototype requirements using these notes to exchange comments. When the client determines that the prototype is an accurate representation of how the final application should look and behave the prototype is baselined and system architecture can begin. Following are the few technical aspects of this small application
- Uses Fusebox version 5.5.1 as the controller framework with no-xml
- Uses Javascript prototype library version 1.6.0.2 for Ajax, event handling, class inheritance and templating.
- Nested set model is used for notes hierarchy.
You can download the toolkit from riaforge at CFPrototype A demo is available on my website at CFPrototype Demo Comments are always welcome and I hope that folks find it useful.
Next week Adobe is running a series of online seminars discussing various Adobe products and technologies. Topics include ColdFusion 8, Flex 3, BlazeDS, AIR etc. I have signed myself for few of these. Adobe Developer Week 2008 Enjoy.
JH's blog has a nice overview of string concatenation in Java by comparing String, StringBuffer and StringBuilder class. StringBuilder vs StringBuffer vs String.concat - done right This applies to ColdFusion developers as well since ColdFusion String are Java String under the hood. This was my motiviation when I wrote the UDF QueryToCSV2 that is available on cflib.og
I have recently received an email from Liz Fredrick that my proposed talk has been approved for CFUnited 2008. I will speaking about setting up a Continuous Integration System using ANT, Subversion, CFUnit and Selenium. More details about CFUnited can be found on their website CFUnited Hope to see you in DC.
This entry is meant bookmark this site so that is easy to track it later. This link list some of the open source social networking softwares which can be downloaded. Top 40 Free Open Source Social Networking Software
After few months of downtime my site is finally up and running. Thanks for my buddy Greg Luce who offered me space on his reseller account with Global One Hosting. My previous and first hosting company was extreme host which turned out to be a nightmare. Anyways I am just glad to back online and hopefully will start to blog on some interesting topics like ANT, Selenium, XSLT, Apache FOP etc.
I saw this on DZone this afternoon where Dan from UK is presenting 15 valuable tips for ANT. We use ANT quite extensively at work and I have been looking for ways to improve several ANT builds. Here are few of our use cases
- Unit testing of CFC and CFM file using CFUnit
- Acceptance testing for running Selenium test
- Testing/Production server deployment.
- various backup processes for databases, files etc....
Dan has also mentioned a free tool named yWorks ANT Explorer which seems quite interesting. It is available as an Eclipse plugin as well as a Stand alone version
I am sure none of readers of this blog can relate to this? If architects had to work like programmers... Thanks!
