CFMeetup: Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy

Thursday 13 December 2007 - Filed under Code

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 things differently.

One thing I liked is John had tagging built into his Ant scripts. He tags everything when his build file is run. I think I’m going to write up a ‘yes/no’ dialog so I can be prompted and skip it if I don’t want to create a tag. I’m also curious about using something like Cruise Control for continuous integration. I really want to learn more about how people implement that when developing web applications.

I’m also going to start using the SVNAnt task instead of calling exec. The syntax looks MUCH cleaner.

The CFMeetup Link to John’s presentation: http://experts.acrobat.com/p41566907/

2007-12-13  »  Jim Priest