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• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 11, 2013 at 8:50 AM

  @Ben, Ah, FW/1, also at the top of the list to get my head around.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 10, 2013 at 9:55 AM

  @Ben, I was thinking of this when I had an ahah moment. Would it make sense to have these files living within your app server, so you would link to a .cfm or .php or something that would ensure the current session was authorized to grab it. Your initial page would almost determine does the sessio... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM

  @Matt, I have the same questions when it comes to more complex applications and whether they should be single-page, a collection of single-page apps, etc. That's where I really struggle in all this move to front-end development.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 1:15 PM

  Any particular tutorials one should start with that will help get a noob up to speed or comfortable?... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM

  Thanks for the input Ben. We're (and me personally) struggling with "we need to do more front-end/JavaScript development but where do we start. Doing simple jQuery type things is ok, but we need to get into technology agnostic front-ends, i.e., I'm not building the app in CF or ASP.NET, etc.... read more »

• My Experience With AngularJS - The Super-heroic JavaScript MVW Framework

  Posted on Jan 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM

  Ben, since I'm still teetering on where to go with my JavaScript framework knowledge quest, do you think it's worthwhile to learn Backbone then AngularJS or just go to AngularJS and look at Backbone when Angular doesn't make sense?... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 10:48 AM

  @Ben, Since you and I have the same types of questions, I'm just going to let you post since you have the blog and I don't, :). I'll just follow the answers, :)... read more »

• How Do You Populate Shared Views In A Complex Layout Using MVC?

  Posted on Jul 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM

  I'm subscribing to this because I have the same exact question. I have a feeling it revolves around controller event chaining, meaning you have one event for primary and one for secondary and a third that chains the two together for output.... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM

  @Dan, Oh, I questioned that during my training and am definitely taking a wait and see approach. The instructors did seem to follow a pattern of "nothing passed in" which you check an error type to which the code should respond, pass in a value but blank, then pass in whatever you... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM

  @Ben, That's my understanding. Let me try and pull up an example and code from the training. i was using the before function for all initializations of the component I was testing.... read more »

• Writing My First Unit Tests With MXUnit And ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 10, 2012 at 10:32 AM

  I hate to nitpick here as someone who themselves are just getting into TDD and unit testing, but I was told that each function should have one and only one test in it. Meaning your testDecode function would really be something like testDecodeNoNumber, testDecodeOneNumber, testDecodeMultipleNumber... read more »

• Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship By Robert C. Martin

  Posted on Jun 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM

  To further our Twitter discussion, the guys teaching our TDD class recommended the TDD by Example book by Kent Beck first, followed by Clean Code for our further reading. I got about 5 chapters into Clean Code before the class started.... read more »

• Application Services vs. Infrastructure Services vs. Domain Services

  Posted on Jun 6, 2012 at 12:46 PM

  I'm glad you're still going down this path Ben. You have a lot of the same questions I do and after attending Scott's CF Dev Week presentation yesterday, I feel I'm more confused then ever. I still have to digest this post some more before I ask intelligent questions.... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:25 PM

  @Steven, make it a series, do an overall, then follow-ups on each of the 3 areas with code and maybe a walk-through demo/little hands-on. It's like me and unit testing, I know I should do it, I know there are tools/frameworks, but for some reason I just don't get how to do it regardless of how ma... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM

  @Steven, that was a great explanation on how to handle session data. I never would've thought about it like that but they way you described it, that makes perfect sense.... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:07 PM

  Yes, I think we are saying the same thing. Anyways, I found the blog post that helped me roll my own simple one: http://blog.stannard.net .au/2006/09/01/writing-your-own-simple-mvc-framework-in-coldfusion/ I basicall... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Jun 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM

  Ben, yes. I'm somewhat lucky that all my apps must "look like" the rest of the site so we actually have a custom tag that renders all of that stuff based on calls to the CMS. Between the opening and closing tags is where my application's content goes. I use the front-controller way of d... read more »

• More Thinking About Model-View-Controller (MVC) And Application Architecture

  Posted on Jun 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM

  Ben, great thoughts and I had these same ones in 2009 while getting ready to rewrite all our CF apps. I ended up rolling my own that looks very much like your image above. One thing, I always have a viewState object that retrieves items for use in the view. It's up to the controller to match data... read more »

• GetHTTPRequestData() Breaks The SOAP Request / Response Cycle In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 31, 2012 at 12:13 PM

  Another Google search brings me to a post of your's Ben and solves my problem. FYI, this still exists in CF9 as far as I can tell. It turned out I had a pre-process that used GetHTTPRequestData function in my OnRequestStart function for the rest of the app.... read more »