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CFObjective 2017 - 3 WAYS TO TEST YOUR COLDFUSION API - Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin |  July 24, 2017

Most projects in CF now involve creating some type of consumable CFC Endpoint or API Service... do you Unit test your API, do you use Integration Tests on your API? How many ways do you test your API? Not all tests are created equal.

We build our CFCs and CF API to be consumed with CF Apps, Mobile Apps, Javascript apps and devices we haven’t even thought about yet. To be smart developers we need to be able to test our CFC endpoints, and the code that uses those endpoints.

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CFObjective 2017 - AN EXERCISE IN CLEANER CODE - FROM LEGACY TO MAINTAINABLE - Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin |  July 24, 2017

We’ve all had those projects, the salvage project, the legacy project that we picked up, and wished we never had.

Was it written 5 years ago by that young dev with lots of passion but no big picture vision.

Was it written 6 months ago by another team, by a top gun developer who knows all the design patterns, and tried to future proof the app, only succeeding in making it impossible for anyone else to understand.

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CFObjective 2017 - Design Patterns - Brad Wood

Brad Wood |  July 24, 2017

At this year's CF.Objective I presented on the topic of programming design patterns.  Here are the slides for the presentation.  This session covers what programming design patterns are, how they got their start, and reviews common design patterns and antipatterns.  There are simple code samples that go with most of the samples, including the antipatterns.