Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Values:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

Read the twelve principles at: [...]

CFObjective: Day 2 – Sustainable Apps with Framewo

Matt Woodward

Overview of building sustainable apps using Frameworks.  Focusing on Mach II, but applicable to all frameworks. Kevin Tate – “Sustainable Software Development” – Good book to check out.

Technical Debt – builds up over time, gets worse as more changes are made.  Extremely hard to pay back.

Keys to Sustainable Dev

Working [...]

Getting WebCharts3D to run on your local desktop

We just recently upgraded our servers from ColdFusion MX 6.1 to MX 7.02.

The upgrade changed the rendering of a few of our charts being generated by <cfchart>, so I’ve been looking into improving our charting overall using the new tools that MX 7 offers.  Before looking into charting enhancements, I had no idea [...]

How to Use Apache 2.2.3 with ColdFusion MX 7.0.2

I was following the ACME Guide to setting up a ColdFusion development environment when I came across a problem.  Following the guide to the letter, I installed Apache 2.2.3 and then installed ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Multi-Server (JRun) edition.  At the point where I needed to restart Apache, I continually got a failure.  Apache [...]

Help Setting Up a Local Development Environment

I’m a ColdFusion developer and I maintain my own servers.  I’ve always just worked directly on the servers (via FTP) when developing new apps.  I want to get away from this.  I want do what all other developers do… set up a local development environment on my laptop.But here’s the problem… ARGH.  It never [...]