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Gavin Pickin

November 22, 2017

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CF Summit 2017 was a lot of fun, lots of new faces, and good to meet friends, old and new alike. I really enjoyed the ColdBox 2 day training, RESTFul Training Bootcamp. I also enjoyed, Pete Freitag's Hands On CFML Security Workshop. It was fun, and terrifying at the same time. My session on 3 ways to test your ColdFusion API went well, lots of interest, and lots of discussion after the class. I am sharing my slides in this post, as well as a collection of other Video Presentations from previous presentations by myself, and others, which will help build upon the information presented.

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/qnqlbfQ5mw6rwW

I updated my slides to include the following, relevant resources... but for convenience, they are listed below, as well.
Remember, Ortus Solutions has many many videos available online for free, at Ortus Solutions' online event page, and under Luis Majano's vimeo page, linked below.

Ortus Online Events Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events
Luis Majano's Vimeo Page: https://vimeo.com/lmajano

My Testing Videos

NVCFUG Meetup 2017 - Testing is natural, testing is fun, not everybody does it but everybody should!
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/testboxortusinh/

ODW 2015 - Testing my API with TestBox on Server and Jasmine on Client
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p6akdiyds21/

CBW 2014 - Mockbox, get ready to mock your socks off
Video: https://vimeo.com/112238773
Slides: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_65i6I500NiN1BoVmVmaFh5dlBXd2ljV1NuY1d3WEtxdUt3/edit

Other Relevant Testing Videos

ODW2017 - Testing my Non-ColdBox site with TestBox - Nolan Erck
https://vimeo.com/241813746

ODW 2016 - Testing Automation - Luis Majano
https://vimeo.com/194169908

ODW 2016 - Integrated - A TestBox packe for even better Integration Tests - Eric Peterson
https://vimeo.com/194168660

ODW 2016 - Code Coverage for CFML - Brad Wood
https://vimeo.com/194134971

ODW 2015 - TestBox BDD - Luis Majano
https://vimeo.com/148262563

CBDW 2013 - Mocking and Stubbing - Luis Majano
https://vimeo.com/groups/coldbox/videos/68861083

My Other Videos

ODW 2017 - Real World ContentBox Microservices
https://vimeo.com/241813747

Containers Roadshow 2017 - Playing with Docker with Gavin Pickin
https://vimeo.com/groups/coldbox/videos/236135671

ContentBox Roadshow 2016 - What's new with ContentBox 3
https://t.co/CdPTM4FFAh

ContentBox Roadshow 2016 - ContentBox Administration 101
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p2vx8nqb3wd/

ContentBox Roadshow 2016 - ContentBoxContentBox Modules Deep Dive
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p7d7h77mivb/

ODW 2016 - ContentBox CMS Deep Dive
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p4yd4a6n5bj/

ODW 2015 - Relax with ColdBox RESTFul Services
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p67qaf48xum/

ODW 2015 - Getting Started With ContentBox
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p249qn543je/

CBDW 2013 - Learning ColdBox through Testing
https://vimeo.com/groups/coldbox/videos/69995315

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Nov 23, 2017 13:40:35 UTC

by James Moberg

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Nov 24, 2017 10:34:41 UTC

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