Monthly Archives: September 2006

CFCUnit and Ant

By Kevan Stannard | Published: September 23, 2006
I have recently been using CFCUnit for unit testing my ColdFusion components. I have also been using Ant as a build tool. A few people have recently blogged about being able to run CFCUnit tests from within Ant. This sounded just great, so I started to look around cfcunit.jar file to get me up and [...]
Posted in Unit Testing | Tagged , , | Comments closed

Choosing ColdFusion Development Environment Tools

By Kevan Stannard | Published: September 23, 2006
There are a few choices in tools for ColdFusion development in a Windows environment. I have found the following set of tools to work well for me. Editor: Eclipse with CFEclipse Plugin I have tried out a couple of editors – CFStudio, HomeSite, Dreamweaver then Eclipse. Dreamweaver is still number 1 for me for CSS [...]
Posted in ColdFusion | Tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Flash “Click to Active and Use Control”

By Kevan Stannard | Published: September 15, 2006
I quite like Flash when used sparingly, but over the past few months I noticed that within IE I now have to click a Flash control before using it. This is a small thing but is annoying and hence reduces the usability of a site – especially when you see a link such as ‘click [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged | Comments closed

Writing Your Own Simple MVC Framework in ColdFusion

By Kevan Stannard | Published: September 1, 2006
There are a few ColdFusion frameworks around but unfortunately it may not always be possible to use them – such as in a shared hosting environment. See my previous post about ColdFusion mappings which discusses why. The following notes describe how a simple event driven framework might be written. This is intended to be a [...]
Posted in ColdFusion | Tagged , | Comments closed