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Ant Build Templates: Prelude
I’ve long been an Ant enthusiast and advocate for its use beyond simple Java compilation tasks. A while back, I wrote a post, available in my InstantSpot archive, describing how I employ Ant to build and deploy web applications. It was intended to be the first in a series, but additional posts just never materialized for a number of reasons.....
My Approach to Test Driven Development Part 3 - Testing Against a Database
Confidently unit testing code that relies on a database is troublesome. There are many different approaches and many opinions on the matter. I've previously written about using transactions to safely rollback the database after every test. This worked well for me at the time, but.....
Free Adobe Connect Accounts
I have been bugging Ryan Stille, Nebraska ColdFusion User Group Manager, about letting other user groups in the Omaha community (mostly Omaha Rails and Dynamic Language User Group) use his free NECFUG Adobe Connect account to record their meetings. Today he asked Adobe and was pointed to an existing FREE Adobe Connect registration for.....
Quickly Understanding Selenium
Selenium is an open source, simple web site testing and automation platform. I say it's a "platform" because it can't really be classified as just a tool, a language, API or a full application, but rather to a degree, all of these.......
Considerations in moving from Subversion to Git, Mercurial or another DCVS
A lot of development teams use Subversion for source control management. With Distributed Version Control Systems (DCVS) like Git, Mercurial and Bazaar gaining greater popularity, teams need to consider some what does it mean to migrate their existing centralized version control system to a decentralized one. This blog touches upon a few of those considerations.
Scraping Google SERPs with ColdFusion
This was my first attempt to combine regular expressions with cfhttp. It’s pretty handy once you get the hang to it, and it can be a very powerful combination. Here’s the script I use to scrape the total number of pages indexed in Google.Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse
Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it was during a CFObjective presentation by Dan Wilson, I witnessed the copy down shortcut (ctrl-alt-down).......Selenium is NOT a framework
Selenium is not a framework but needs one desperately. I have noticed some references to selenium as a framework thus this blog posting. I am using the Template method pattern to creating my own Selenium Framework. The template method pattern is the.....AnyEdit: useful plugin for code formatting in Flex Builder / Eclipse
AnyEdit is a great little utility for Eclipse/Flex Builder. Helps in code formatting and cleanup.Life after Subversion -- Mercurial
A note to myself: The only constant in life, Indy, is change!
I've been using Subversion for version control for a couple of years now. It was quite a change moving from Microsoft Visual Source to Subversion. A different mind set. A different way of doing things.
And then I read about Mercurial today.......How do you manage projects?
We are in the process of reviewing some of our project management processes here at Alagad in search (as always) of ways to better manage and track projects. Currently, we use a combination of Trac sites, SVN repositories, and a handful of other tools for our projects, but I have often found this collection of individual tools can be burdensome.....How Do You Set Up Your Development Environment?
Some tips on how to set up your development environment for increased efficiency.
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