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We’re back! Today’s discussion centers around ensuring software integrity. Micky and Brian walk us through their four key points: unit testing, ant testing, continuous integration testing, and functional testing. We discuss the how and why in ColdFusion development for the enterprise.

Is there anything you’d like us to elaborate on regarding our points about testing? Let us know! Post your comments here and let’s see if we can help you out in future episodes.

We also discussed ColdFusion Meetup, and other software products such as the great MXUnit, Selenium for functional testing, Cruise Control and ANT.

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We appreciate all the feedback we receive on an ongoing basis from our listeners. You all make it worth the effort and we encourage your continued participation.

This week, we discuss preferred ColdFusion IDEs and make comparisons between ColdFusion Builder and IDEs available for other platforms. We get a tip about CFDevCamp, a planned event in the San Francisco area scheduled for November 7th, Mike surprises Brian and Micky with a pop quiz to measure their CFSCRIPT skills, and we discuss REST web services in ColdFusion and make comparisons between using REST versus ColdFusion’s built-in SOAP functionality in CFCs.

We had some high hopes this evening with the TalkShoe service but our dream of realtime participation from our listeners would go unrealized this evening. Despite our best efforts, the audio we were broadcasting to TalkShoe was of poor quality, to say the very least. We sincerely thank @cfaddict, @henrylearn2rock and @dfgrumpy (from CFHour() incidentally) for attempting to participate in our live stream before we threw in the towel! We’ll try it again another time!

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There’s nothing more fun than exposing horrifyingly bad ColdFusion code, that is so long as it’s not your own. Mike found Ray Camden’s Friday Challenge all too tempting and submitted some of the ugliest CFML known to man. Just to be fair, there’s plenty of poor HTML and JavaScript in there as well! Check out some of the contributions of lengthy code submitted on Ray’s blog!

AdobeMAX is in full effect and we’re not there! Listen in on our discussion regarding these conferences and let us know your thoughts. We debate the value of these conferences and whether or not you really walk away with anything of concrete value. We encourage you to listen to our differing opinions and share your own in our comments! On another note, if you’ve missed the AdobeMAX sessions and want to check them out, you can do so by checking out AdobeTV!

Lastly, we discuss creating applications with a ColdFusion backend in true OOP fashion while exploring the use of other technologies for the user interface layer. Of course, our preferences differ and we discuss the use of Adobe Flex versus JavaScript frameworks such as ExtJS. Listen in and share your thoughts in our comments!

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Thanks for all the feedback on our first podcast of the series.  We’re looking forward to hearing more from everyone in the ColdFusion community.  Our sincere thanks to Paul for the kind words!  To Stephen in the UK, we’ll reduce our file size… sorry about that!  Our thanks to Dan for the shout-out as well! Did you talk about our podcast and we missed you?  Let us know!

Today, we discuss the “CF OOP” debate.  In summary, this is the question as to whether or not Object Oriented Programming principles belong in ColdFusion programming.  This conversation between the three of us was spawned by the blog post published by Marc Furnaro, which can be found here.  Please read that blog post in its entirety, preferably on a laptop, in the lazy chair with your feet up — it’s a long one but its worth the time.

A note to Marc Furnaro, thanks for putting your comments out to the universe. We encourage you to reach out to us and we’d love to have you on our podcast.

We concluded with a reference to Hostek and their offering of free ColdFusion 9 beta hosting… not a bad deal at all!  Check it out, and let us know if you know of other similar offerings. We’ll chat again next week!

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Yet another ColdFusion podcast is born, this one brought to you by enthusiastic ColdFusion developers. Today, we discuss the features of ColdFusion 9 that opened new doors and paved the way for an exciting new ColdFusion Framework called Quicksilver.

Find out more about Quicksilver by checking out the RIAForge page at http://quicksilver.riaforge.org — You’ll find the blog posts and samples we discussed during the show.

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