Luis Majano talks about "4 Cool CF books" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
Learn Modern CFML in 100 minutes
- Why wrote
- Started by Mike Hanky 100 minutes of CF on GitHub but not completed
- Inspired by Ruby in 100 mins
- Luis asked to complete the CF book
- Take CFML to next level, modern
- What about
- Who it is for
- Reference for all CFers to write in modern CFML
- Newbies to CFML
- How to read/buy
- Really 100 minutes? Yes
- Future
- Mini videos on the chapters for CFCasts
102 ColdBox HMVC Tips and Tricks
- Why 102?
- Was (100 + 1) + 1 - overachiever
- Why wrote
- Help ColdBox users
- Wrote 30 minutes per day 5 tips per day and from the team
- What about
- Who it is for
- All levels of ColdBox users
- How to read/buy
- Oruts site PDF + eBook
- Made with Ulysses book publishing tool
- Closed source
- Future - video version for CFCasts
Two new books announcement
102 CommandBox Tips and Tricks
- All levels of CommandBox users
- Server spin up
- Package management
- ForgeBox 1000 open source modules
- CLI (Command Line Interface) and REPL
102 TestBox Tips and Tricks
- Automated testing
- TDD (Test Driven Development) - write unit tests before writing the code
- Developer paralysis from having to write tests first
- Refactor code to be testable
- Write tests for only the most complex CFCs
- Just in time testing - write test after you see a bug so that bug doesn't come back later
- BDD (Behavior Driven Development) - higher level testing and user behavior
- From top requirements and stories down
- Also Mocking objects and data (was MockBox)
- Dummy code objects until the real object is created
- API mocking
- Coverage testing
- Currently with FusionReactor
- Might be standalone later
- Why to test
- What to test
- When to stop writing test
- Launch at ITB
Other books
Why are you proud to use CF?
- The best language - used many
- ASM, Basic, C#, Grovey, Java, CF
- Productive
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
- Build solutions in CF (not focus on cool language features)
- Tell folks about it!
What are you looking forward to at Into The Box Web Development Conference 2022?
- New family friendly venue in Houston TX
- 1 day workshops
- Other big speakers, including from other languages
Mentioned in this episode
Bio
Luis Majano
Luis Majano (@lmajano) is a Computer Engineer that has been developing and designing software systems since the year 2000. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in the late 70's, during a period of economical instability and civil war. He lived in El Salvador until 1995 and then moved to Miami, Florida where he completed his Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering at Florida International University. Luis resides in Houston, Texas with his beautiful wife Veronica, daughter Alexia and son Lucas!
He is the CEO of Ortus Solutions (@ortussolutions), a consulting firm specializing in web development, ColdFusion (CFML), Java development and all open source professional services under the *Box stack. He is the creator of ColdBox, ContentBox, WireBox, MockBox, LogBox and anything BOX, and contributes to many open source ColdFusion/Java projects. You can read his blog at www.luismajano.com.
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