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ColdFusion Weekly Version 2.27 - September 24, 2007 - The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two)

The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two)

What we've been up to ...

  • Peter:
    • Admiring the new Bosch washer and dryer. It finally came.
    • Thinking a lot about streamlining processes and organization
  • Matt:
    • Had a great time in Oregon!
    • Finally got my cable cards working so the TiVo Series 3 is fully operational
    • More A/V stuff--amazon.com Unbox rocks with free downloads of some of the new Fall TV shows right to your TiVo
    • Thanks to Peter and Kurt for the YSlow show
    • Doing lots of reading/research on productivity

No CFReport this week

CFQuery - at 8:40

  • Cutter calls to tell us that he was the 1000th site on gotcfm.com, and reminisces about old code
  • AJ Mercer called to ask us about organizing your code in Subversion

CF_Focus - at 25:53

  • Part 2 in a series on testing
  • Selenium is an open source test tool for web applications available
  • Used to do system functional testing and browser compatibility testing
  • Selenium IDE
    • Firefox extension
    • used to record, edit, and debug tests
    • Can either have Selenium generate scripts for you based on simple actions (open a URL, click a button, etc.) or edit scripts manually
    • Can set breakpoints
    • Can save scripts out as HTML or several other formats
  • Selenium Core
  • Installing Selenium
    • Download Selenium Core
    • drop into your web root
    • There is no step 3
    • You'll probably also want to install the Selenium IDE (Firefox extension)
  • Using Selenium Core by browsing to http://server/selenium/ to see the main menu
  • Using the Selenium IDE to create your own test suites
  • Creating a test case
  • Automating your test cases

CFExit Music (Progress by The Exchange) - at 48:35
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ColdFusion Weekly Version 2.26 - September 17, 2007 - The "Using YSlow" Edition

The "Using YSlow" Edition with Guest Host Kurt Wiersma

What we've been up to ...

  • Peter:
    • Had fun doing some server stuff this week with YUM, rpms and CPAN.
    • New Bosch Axxis washer/dryer coming on Tuesday!
    • More experimenting with ANT and becoming more and more interested in Java.
  • Kurt:
    • Just bought a new Trek bike just in time for winter. :-)
    • Taking Peter's YSlow advice at work.
    • Built an ajax powered Fantasy Football Draft System. Then built another version of the same app in Flex.

CFReport – 12:06

CF_Focus - at 21:24

Wrap-Up – at 1:17:30

Sorry, AJ Mercer - we didn't get to your CFQuery this week!

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ColdFusion Weekly V. 2.25 - The "Welcome Back" Edition

The "Welcome Back" Edition

What we've been up to ...

  • Peter:
    • Had a geek night with Kurt Wiersma and talked about everything under the sun but planned out Mach-II 1.6 and 2.0.
    • Have been learning ANT (using it with Eclipse). Using tasks such as SVN, JSMin and CFCUnit through ANT to ease website roll outs and to continuous builds.
    • Got summoned for Federal jury duty in October and November.
    • Bought a set of Bosch's Axxis line of washers and dryers, but waiting for them to come.
    • Did a presentation to the TCCFUG on the YSlow add-on for FireBug
  • Matt:

CFReport - 18:17

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