Like many companies, we send HTML emails. This has always been extremely easy in CFML because it has a cfmail tag built-in which allows you to put HTML directly inline inside it - which in turn can include CFML code so the HTML can be dynamically generate[...]

Back when I was in college, I took three different courses that dealt with subjects related to machine learning and data mining. Although I didn’t lose interest on those matters, my work has led me in a totally unrelated direction, so I haven’t exercise[...]

As mentioned earlier in this series, we have a process written in Clojure that reads updated member profiles from our MySQL database, converts them to XML and posts them to our search engine. XML generation in Clojure is made very easy by using a library [...]

Our platform uses some minimal per-environment configuration to determine on which tier it is running: dev, CI, QA, production. We have a fairly large number of application settings which vary by tier, such as data sources, ports and hostnames for externa[...]

I've touched on this in an earlier blog post about parsing PowerMTA accounting files but I wanted to cover it again as part of this blog series and go into a bit more depth. In that earlier post, I showed an outline for processing the large CSV files prod[...]

Since the beginning FPish has allowed Authors to aggregate their blogs. We are now going a step further by allowing you to write blog articles on FPish.

Since you your view model can be oblivious of your views (html) you can write unit tests for functionality quite far out into the gui. You can then use TDD to develop your view models. I’ve seen examples of testing where you include the views.

Normally, with languages like C# or Java, there is quite a bit of overhead in creating a quick and dirty program to do small tasks like bulk renaming files in a director, etc. This is the spot that is filled by scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ru[...]