CF Mumbo Jumbo

Mike Henke talks about trying to introduce continuous integration and unit testing into his legacy code. Taking a "baby steps" approach he tells how he sets up a continuous integration environment, to test code changes even without unit testing.

 Luis Majano is the founder of Ortus Solutions an Open Source Software company that is responisble for the ColdBox Framework, Wirebox, Forgebox & all things "Box." Their latest offering is an Enterprise level content management system, not surprisingly named: "ContentBox."  Luis joins me on BoltTalks to chat with me about ContentBox. 

 BlogCFC is the most widely know opensource blogging software written to run on ColdFusion.  The brain child of Ray "ColdFusion Jedi" Camden, BlogCFC has had some recent news regarding it's future.  Scott Stroz aka Boyzoid joins me on Bolt Talks to talk to me about these exciting changes.

Recording of the incredibly fun and enlightening Bolt  Talk Live: Fishbowl edition. It was held at the Adobe Max ColdFusion Unconference. Ben Forta was kind enough to join us. A fishbowl is an open discussion format that encouraged the audience to be on the panel. Topic: Best Practices of a Modern ColdFusion Developer.

The ColdFusion Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn ColdFusion. The goal is to learn the ColdFusion language, syntax, and structure. It will also teach you culture. Testing is not just something to pay lip service to, but something to live. It is essential in your quest to learn and do great things in the language. 

Open source is just for hippies and communists right?  "Not so!", says Matt Gifford of Fuzzy Orange software.  Open source can be a means to becoming a better programmer.  On this installment of Bolt Talks, we disuss Matt Gifford on Open Source Software, Why, How & When.

Tired of just being a "Code Slinger" that implements other people's designs? Ready to take the next step and advance your skills, but not sure how?  Mark Mandel offers his advice.