G'day:
Just quickly... I have nothing really to report on this yet, but this is just a heads-up: ColdFusion 11 has just gone beta, and is available to download from Adobe: "Download Adobe ColdFusion Project Splendor and ColdFusion Builder Project Thunder".
The first ingteresting thing... there is a separate "getting started" install, which is just a zip file. Hopefully it's equivalent to Railo / OpenBD's express install, which is simply a matter of unzipping and running. I'm downloading it now, so will report back soon.
I am gonna start hammering it as soon as I can get it installed, and will report back with any meritworthy findings.
Stay tuned.
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Adam
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
TestBox, BDD-style tests, Railo member functions and bugs therein
G'day:
One of the promised features of ColdFusion 11 is to bring "member functions" to ColdFusion's inbuilt data types. Railo's already had a good go at doing this, and has reasonably good coverage. See "Member Functions" for details.
One concern I have is whether ColdFusion 11 will implement these the same way as Railo already has. I mean... they should do, there's not much wriggle room, but who knows. If there's a way to do it wrong, I'm sure Adobe can find it. With that in mind, I want to be able to run through some regression/transgression tests on both systems once ColdFusion 11 goes beta, so in prep for that, today I knocked out some unit tests for all the struct member functions.
What I did is to go into the ColdFusion 10 docs, go to the "Structure functions" section (to remind me what all the functions were), and write unit tests for the whole lot. I used the ColdFusion docs rather than the Railo ones because the CF10 docs are more comprehensive than Railo's (this is an indictment of Railo's docs, not a recommendation for the ColdFusion ones, btw!), plus I wanted to make sure I covered any functions Railo might have overlooked.
To make this more interesting (because, let's face it, it's not an interesting task; either to undertake, write up, or for you to read about!), I decided to have a look at TestBox's BDD-inspired testing syntax. The short version of this side of things is that I rather like this new syntax. I don't think it's got anything to do with BDD (which is an approach to documentation and test design, not a syntax model), but it's interesting anyhow.
Anyway, stand-by for a raft of code (there's a Gist of this too:
One of the promised features of ColdFusion 11 is to bring "member functions" to ColdFusion's inbuilt data types. Railo's already had a good go at doing this, and has reasonably good coverage. See "Member Functions" for details.
One concern I have is whether ColdFusion 11 will implement these the same way as Railo already has. I mean... they should do, there's not much wriggle room, but who knows. If there's a way to do it wrong, I'm sure Adobe can find it. With that in mind, I want to be able to run through some regression/transgression tests on both systems once ColdFusion 11 goes beta, so in prep for that, today I knocked out some unit tests for all the struct member functions.
What I did is to go into the ColdFusion 10 docs, go to the "Structure functions" section (to remind me what all the functions were), and write unit tests for the whole lot. I used the ColdFusion docs rather than the Railo ones because the CF10 docs are more comprehensive than Railo's (this is an indictment of Railo's docs, not a recommendation for the ColdFusion ones, btw!), plus I wanted to make sure I covered any functions Railo might have overlooked.
To make this more interesting (because, let's face it, it's not an interesting task; either to undertake, write up, or for you to read about!), I decided to have a look at TestBox's BDD-inspired testing syntax. The short version of this side of things is that I rather like this new syntax. I don't think it's got anything to do with BDD (which is an approach to documentation and test design, not a syntax model), but it's interesting anyhow.
Anyway, stand-by for a raft of code (there's a Gist of this too:
Struct.cfc):
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
ColdFusion-UI-the-Right-Way: <cfajaxproxy>
G'day:
I've just finished another "chapter" on ColdFusion UI the Right Way, this time a quick treatment of
I've just finished another "chapter" on ColdFusion UI the Right Way, this time a quick treatment of
<cfajaxproxy>. Once again, I'll repeat it here for the sake of a) promoting CFUItRW; b) adding content to the blog / Google ;-)
I might not be, but Gavin is...
G'day:
A few days back I got a bit shouty about not being a dead CF installer storage facility: "Things I am not...".
Gavin, who is a much nicer person than I am, has - instead of just complaining about stuff like I do - done something about it, as detailed here: "CFML Server - A Different type of ColdFusion Repo - ColdFusion Installs". Gavin has created an online repository (via copy.com), of old ColdFusion installer files. He's got a range of installs for various versions back to ColdFusion 5, as well as a mix of operating systems and bitness (what's the technical term to describe the concept like "32-bit" or "64-bit"?) of the OS architecture.
A few days back I got a bit shouty about not being a dead CF installer storage facility: "Things I am not...".
Gavin, who is a much nicer person than I am, has - instead of just complaining about stuff like I do - done something about it, as detailed here: "CFML Server - A Different type of ColdFusion Repo - ColdFusion Installs". Gavin has created an online repository (via copy.com), of old ColdFusion installer files. He's got a range of installs for various versions back to ColdFusion 5, as well as a mix of operating systems and bitness (what's the technical term to describe the concept like "32-bit" or "64-bit"?) of the OS architecture.
Slow news day & Adobe charging twice for CFML features
G'day:
You'll be pleased to know that Brendon McCullum got his 300 runs, becoming New Zealand's highest scorer for an innings, finally falling on 302. New Zealand declared on 680, which is their highest innings score in test cricket. We now have 56 overs to bowl India out to win the match. Which is seeming possibly on the cards as they are already 28/2: "McCullum, Neesham bat India out".
Increasingly the news media is relying on Twitter banality for its news content, and - whilst not a news organ - I don't see why I should be any different. So today's article is brought to you via a comment on Twitter.
James raises a very good point, and one I've been meaning to comment on for a coupla months now. Adobe are currently working through their bug backlog, and a lot of bugs are being fixed, with the comment of "this will be available in the next major release of ColdFusion" (ie: ColdFusion 11). That has a veneer of good news about it, but let's stop to think about this.
ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 10 are the current versions of ColdFusion. They are both still within their standard support phase (ColdFusion 9 until 31/12/2014, and 10 until 16/5/2017. Ref: "Adobe products and Enterprise Technical Support periods covered under the new Lifecycle Policy").
You'll be pleased to know that Brendon McCullum got his 300 runs, becoming New Zealand's highest scorer for an innings, finally falling on 302. New Zealand declared on 680, which is their highest innings score in test cricket. We now have 56 overs to bowl India out to win the match. Which is seeming possibly on the cards as they are already 28/2: "McCullum, Neesham bat India out".
Increasingly the news media is relying on Twitter banality for its news content, and - whilst not a news organ - I don't see why I should be any different. So today's article is brought to you via a comment on Twitter.
I think I'll stop reporting ColdFusion 10 bugs & submit them as CF11 feature requests... since that's what's happening anyways :(
— James Moberg (@gamesover) February 18, 2014
James raises a very good point, and one I've been meaning to comment on for a coupla months now. Adobe are currently working through their bug backlog, and a lot of bugs are being fixed, with the comment of "this will be available in the next major release of ColdFusion" (ie: ColdFusion 11). That has a veneer of good news about it, but let's stop to think about this.
ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 10 are the current versions of ColdFusion. They are both still within their standard support phase (ColdFusion 9 until 31/12/2014, and 10 until 16/5/2017. Ref: "Adobe products and Enterprise Technical Support periods covered under the new Lifecycle Policy").
Monday, 17 February 2014
Railo bug? Or ColdFusion bug...
G'day:
I've had a bit of a break, as you will have noticed. I'm now sitting in my folks' place in Auckland, watching the cricket with me dad. New Zealand are desperately trying to salvage the match against India from certain loss. Currently NZ is on 363/5, with McCullum (183*) and Watling (92*) being the last real line of defence against India. NZ only lead by 118. We kinda need a lead of 250 to not lose (India have another innings yet, and there's still a day and a half to go). We're definitely not gonna win, but we might be able to eke out a draw.
I know hardly any of that will mean anything to most of my readers. However cricket represents "summer" to me.
But enough of the waffle.
Segue alert. One of the most noted wafflers in the CFML community - Scott Stroz - discovered some interesting behaviour when we was migrating some code from ColdFusion to Railo, and initially suspected a bug in Railo. I've had a closer look, and I think it's more likely a bug in ColdFusion, with the behavioural difference with Railo being that it doesn't have the bug. However I'm only 90% convinced of this. Here's the deal...
I've had a bit of a break, as you will have noticed. I'm now sitting in my folks' place in Auckland, watching the cricket with me dad. New Zealand are desperately trying to salvage the match against India from certain loss. Currently NZ is on 363/5, with McCullum (183*) and Watling (92*) being the last real line of defence against India. NZ only lead by 118. We kinda need a lead of 250 to not lose (India have another innings yet, and there's still a day and a half to go). We're definitely not gonna win, but we might be able to eke out a draw.
I know hardly any of that will mean anything to most of my readers. However cricket represents "summer" to me.
But enough of the waffle.
Segue alert. One of the most noted wafflers in the CFML community - Scott Stroz - discovered some interesting behaviour when we was migrating some code from ColdFusion to Railo, and initially suspected a bug in Railo. I've had a closer look, and I think it's more likely a bug in ColdFusion, with the behavioural difference with Railo being that it doesn't have the bug. However I'm only 90% convinced of this. Here's the deal...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Things I am not...
G'day:
Just quickly. Whilst I might have various old ColdFusion installers lying around, I am not a download service for complete strangers who didn't think to keep hold of their own software.
When it was one person once in a blue moon who needed help with this sort of thing, it was no problem. But I've had two complete strangers in the last 48hrs ask me for various CF installer files, so am making a policy decision that the answer is automatically "no" if you're thinking of asking me for a ColdFusion installer file. NB: to the two bods who asked for help... I'm not having a go at you: it was a reasonable question to ask.
I can only suggest you post a question on the Adobe ColdFusion forums, or contact Adobe, or ask on Twitter or something.
Cheers.
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Adam
Just quickly. Whilst I might have various old ColdFusion installers lying around, I am not a download service for complete strangers who didn't think to keep hold of their own software.
When it was one person once in a blue moon who needed help with this sort of thing, it was no problem. But I've had two complete strangers in the last 48hrs ask me for various CF installer files, so am making a policy decision that the answer is automatically "no" if you're thinking of asking me for a ColdFusion installer file. NB: to the two bods who asked for help... I'm not having a go at you: it was a reasonable question to ask.
I can only suggest you post a question on the Adobe ColdFusion forums, or contact Adobe, or ask on Twitter or something.
Cheers.
--
Adam
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