By barneyb on May 4, 2004
After long-standing frustration with certain aspects of the CF error templates, I finally took some time to build in the display of CFQUERYPARAM values on database exceptions. I've packaged up the files you need to run the modified templates and made them available for download.
Bug reports can be submitted through the Email Me form, or to any of my email addresses (particularly those I use for mailing lists) if you know them.
Posted in coldfusion
By barneyb on May 1, 2004
I got the 0.1 functionality of JFission fully implemented and it has passed all the JUnit tests, which is promising. It's not yet running on my real server, but it's on my dev box and running like a champ. I'm working on updating the docs and then I'll put it up here for download.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on April 25, 2004
I updated the site architecture document to reflect the changes I've made since I wrote the original. The big change is that everything is now running through Tomcat for layouts and page counting. The "pages" are now nothing more than a few c:set tags to create some content pieces that are assembled by a single template, which is then displayed in the browser using one of the skin CSS files.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on April 25, 2004
I took a bunch of time and wrote some initial docs for JFission, and made a prerelease version available for download. Included in the new info I posted is a list of all the functions that make up the 0.1 release. The ones that are already implemented are marked as well, so you can see what you get in the downloadable version.
I'm also thinking about including a couple tags in the 0.1 release, notably CFSILENT, though I've never written a JSP custom tag before, so I have no idea what I'm up against.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on April 7, 2004
After some careful thought today while I was supposed to be working, I decided to rename JSPCF to JFission. It's a nicer name, I think, and has the right blend of subtle meaning to suit my intellect. I've finalized the set of functions that will be included in the 0.1 release, and started implementing some of them and their test cases. I'll eventually expand the JFission section of the site to include some more info, including the function list, but not right now.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on April 4, 2004
Eclipse, for those of you who don't know, is an amazing platform for developing integrated tools, which comes with a Java IDE build on the platform. It's all Java, and it's the best IDE I've come across (though I can't say I've used MS Visual Studio).
JUnit is a very lightweight testing framework for doing unit testing in Java. The idea is that you can write a "thing" that will test a single method of a class, and then the JUnit framework will take care of running that "thing" (it's a method of a class that extends TestCase), handle any exceptions, failed assertions and whatever else, and give you a report about it. You can stack as many test cases together as you want, and create suites for regression testing large projects.
Eclipse + JUnit is very nice. I'd never used JUnit until I started working on JSPCF. I knew I needed some kind of regression testing, because the scope of the project would quickly overwhelm me. In comes Eclipse to save the day, not only with a very well-integrated JUnit plugin for testing within the IDE, but wizards and tutorials to get you going from scratch in no time. I went from writing the first method in JSPCF, realizing I needed some kind of regression testing to keep my sanity, found JUnit's web site, hit the Eclipse helps, and had my first test suite running (and finding a stupid logic error in my method) within 15 minutes, and that included indexing the Eclipse help.
I'm still riding the initial euphoria, so my perspective is undoubtedly skewed, but I can't say enough good things about JUnit. If only it were possible to use it on web apps.
Posted in development
By barneyb on April 4, 2004
As I've been working on this site, I've started missing all the really handy stuff that CF provides. So I started work on a JSP taglib that provides some of those nice features. The JSTL which are build into the JSP 2.0 spec are a step in the right direction (after the nothing that was there before), but they are still pretty bare. Right now, I've not planned a formal release, but this site is running a development version with much success.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on April 3, 2004
I added an Email Me page for shooting me an email. My general preference has been for just an email link, but with the amount of spam I already get, I figure I'll take what precautions I can.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on March 23, 2004
As should be very obvious, I finally took the time to build an attractive skin/layout for my blog, rather than the handful of color tweaks to the default MovableType stylesheet that had qualified as customization until now. For whatever reason, the header and footer graphics don't look smooth, nor line up colorwise, on Windows. I'm still trying to figure out why.
The entire site layout is now driven though JSPs, rather than MT. I intend to add some dynamic layout elements, which forced my hand on the matter. The Boisvert Life is also using the new JSP-based layout, though it's running a stylesheet designed to replicate the default MT appearance.
The HTML under the CSS is mostly the same as what MT generates, but I tweaked it a little to make it less blog-centric since it needs to accomodate my non-blog pages as well.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on March 17, 2004
I put together a document that explains the architecture behind this site, including some configuration snippets and a flowchart the explains how everything relates. Hopefully it will be understandable to those who haven't had first-hand experience with the guts of it.
Posted in meta
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