John Paul Ashenfelter gave a great presentation this afternoon on CFMeetup. “Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy” covered really high level concepts of using Ant, version control and testing to manage your applications. I am already doing some of the same things but it is always neat to see how people do [...]
Category Archives: Ant
CFMeetup - Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy
December 4, 2007 – 10:40 pm
Ooooooh - this looks good! Charlie’s been bugging me for awhile about doing an Ant presentation for CFMeetup but I’ve just been swamped lately and kept putting him off!
But! It appears that he has found a better victim:
Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy, with John Paul Ashenfelter
Many developers are aware of tools [...]
Ant Explorer
November 13, 2007 – 9:28 am
I mentioned this briefly in my 15 Ant Tips posts but thought I would follow it up with a more in depth post…
Ant Explorer is available as a standalone version or as an Eclipse plugin. Installation is via setting up the usual Eclipse update URL to point to the yWorks site. After installation [...]
Reminder: Selenium and Ant TACFUG Presentation
November 5, 2007 – 11:49 am
When: Tomorrow (Tuesday) @ 6:30pm
Where: PStrat
What: An introduction to using Selenium to test your web applications. Also - a recap of my previous Ant presentation. All hastily put together this weekend while my kids threw Lego’s at me…
Come on out and hang with your fellow Triangle ColdFusion geeks and watch me [...]
TACFUG Presentation: Selenium and Ant
October 31, 2007 – 12:42 pm
I’ll be giving a presentation on Selenium and Ant next Tuesday (November 6th) at the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group. See the TACFUG site for location and details.
I’ll be showing how to setup and use Selenium and the Selenium IDE to create and run tests, and I’ll be giving a brief version of my [...]
15 Ant Tips
October 26, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Saw this on DZone - Dan presents 15 Tips for Better Ant Builds.
I’ve been looking at my Ant scripts lately trying to figure out how to improve them and I’m going to implement some of Dan’s tips. Especially #9 - using an external property file to hold my configuration info. I also like his [...]
Virtual Ant
October 19, 2007 – 8:11 am
Today Virtual Ant was released…
With Virtual Ant you no longer have to get your hands dirty with XML to create or edit Ant build scripts. Work in a completely virtualized environment similar to Windows Explorer and run your tasks on a Virtual File System to see what they do, in real time, without affecting [...]
Metal Motorcycle Mayhem
October 11, 2007 – 4:04 pm
What a crazy week!
Last weekend I went to Myrtle Beach to see Megadeth! Dave and crew put on an awesome show. Checkout the Megadeth site for some great concert videos! I’m sure I lost a bit more hearing but it was well worth it
Turns out [...]