Now we have used ocsigen successfully to host an old python cgi application. However, we need to study ocsigen in detail to decide whether or not using OCaml language to develop new web application.
Any suggestion is appreciated!
As far as I know, there is no book (but the online documentation is quite good).
And the people behind Ocsigen are quite nice people and will answer questions on their mailing list.
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xUnit++ isn't the same thing as xUnit, and google doesn't point me to any good documentation. The xUnit++ site has a Wiki, with about five pages of general stuff, but no real specifics and no tutorials.
Does anyone know of any relatively complete, or detailed, documentation of xUnit++. Also, if you know of any tutorials, that would be great!
Thanks!
At the moment, there isn't. I opened an issue about this on the author's homepage over a month ago. The link is here.
https://bitbucket.org/moswald/xunit/issue/13/tutorial-and-quick-start
It can be assumed that he's busy because good programmers are usually swamped.
I would suggest making a bitbucket account to comment on the issue, or asking the author to move his repository to something like GitHub, where the community would take care of the rest of the work for him.
It might be a little bit difficult because he is currently using mecurial for his version control.
Not much of an answer, but there are other people looking for the same information as you.
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I started using The Catch Framework for doing unit test in C and C++ approximately 2 months after answering this question. It is fairly well documented and in active development on GitHub. It might be worth a try.
I'm looking to "embed" a forum into an existing website. I've talked to Ray about what it'd take to do this with Galleon (a great CF-based forum), and it's doable.
As part of due diligence, I'd like to know if any existing ColdFusion-based forum software was designed with embeddedness in mind; in other words, forum software that wasn't built to just be run as a standalone application.
Thanks!
Marc, if you're looking for an add-on to a Mura CMS site, you should check out Meld Forums - https://github.com/meldsolutions/Meld-Forums. Free, open-source, etc.
A few colleagues and I created a simple packet capturing application based on libpcap, GTK+ and sqlite as a project for a Networks Engineering course at our university. While it (mostly) works, I am trying to improve my programming skills and would appreciate it if members of the community could look at what we've put together.
Is this a good place to ask for such a review? If not, what are good sites I can throw this question up on? The source code is hosted by Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/nbfm-sniffer) and an executable is available for download (Windows only, though it does compile on Linux and should compile on OS X Leopard as well provided one has gtk+ SDK installed).
Thanks, everyone!
-Carlos Nunez
UPDATE: Thanks for the great feedback, everyone. The code is completely open-source and modifiable (licensed under Apache License 2.0). I was hoping to get more holistic feedback, considering that my postings would still be very lengthy.
As sheepsimulator mentioned, GitHub is good. I would also recommend posting your project on SourceForge.net and/or FreshMeat.net. Both are active developer communities where people often peruse projects like yours. The best thing for your code would be if someone found it useful and decided to extend it. Then, you'd probably end up with plenty of bug fixes and constructive criticism.
You might get some mileage by posting the code out in the public space (through github or some other open-posting forum), putting a link here on SO, and seeing what happens.
You could also make it an open-source project, and see if people find it and use it.
Probably your best bet is to talk to your prof/classmates, find some professional programmers willing to devote their time, and have them review the code. Like American Idol-esque judging, but for your software...
As #Noah states, this is not the site for code review. You may present problems and what you did to overcome those problems, asking if a given solution would be the best.
I found a neat little website that might be what you are looking for: Cplusplus.com
I am quite aware of the MVC concept, though I have never developed anything bigger in ASP.NET MVC, but I have been developing ASP.NET pages for years now.
So is there any good tutorial or even better: a book that is suitable for an ASP.NET developer and does comparisons? Especially I am looking for information on Django reusability/how to deal with components, etc.
Regardless of your background, if you want to learn DJango, try the free online Django Book.
I'm not aware of anything that will specifically compare ASP.NET code to Django/Python. There are a bunch of good books though. Practical Django Projects 2nd Edition by James Bennett is an excellent book. It has a couple of example applications you can build.
There's also Pro Django by Marty Alchin that really gets into some of the guts of Django. There isn't any "tutorial" kind of information here. It's more just an extension of the documentation.
Both of these books talk some about reusability in Django, but they don't dwell on it specifically that much. One of Django's design goals has been to keep things modular and reusable. Because of this, there are a lot of mostly plug and play apps that you can drop into your project.
Once you get a little bit familiar with how Django works, you should check out Virtualenv and pip to manage each of your projects. It helps out a ton.
I am currently working on a program that I really think is a good idea (at least I sure hope it is). For the program I am building I am using (after some very long consideration) ColdFusion - Flex - Adobe Air. However, I have to learn ColdFusion to do this.
I am an independent developer that for the most part uses PHP to build my client's websites. Since I plan on learning ColdFusion to build this program, do you guys have any advice on how I can use ColdFusion elsewhere. It is not very exciting to think that I am learning this language for just one thing.
I don't plan on bulding Coca-Cola's lastest greatest website anytime soon, but I (for some odd reason) enjoy coding and was just wondering if you guys had any advice on any smaller-time avenues that one could persue??
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :)
Cliff notes: I'm an independent PHP developer learning ColdFusion for a client. Its not exciting to learn a language which I will never use again. Where can I apply ColdFusion in the future?
You can use ColdFusion to build any webapp you could build with PHP. I've seen a few articles lately with comments from PHP developers switching to ColdFusion. This one was posted today, and lists some pros and cons of switching to ColdFusion.
http://blog.rubicon.je/2009/09/coldfusion-half-a-year-away/
I wouldn't consider it an either/or proposition though. If you want to learn CF for your AIR app, it will absolutely come in handy for something else down the road, even if you don't plan for that. Knowing more than one (or three) languages is always beneficial, as it gives you additional insight into other ways to solve problems.
Dan
ColdFusion or CFML the language is a tool, like any other you might add to your toolkit. As developers I personally feel we choose choose the best tool for the job. That said having another tool available will invariably come in handy down the road rather you write another CFML application or not. General solid programming advice is to try and learn at least one new language a year.
CFML is easy to learn, yet also provides for advanced development, which is why many choose to go with it. I came from a PHP/Perl background and picked it up in a couple weeks. If you are comfortable programming once you get the syntax down you can use to it do anything you can do with PHP. I wrote at length on the comparison in this answer.
Further lengthy Question/Answers to the viability/use of ColdFusion:
Is ColdFusion a good choice for web development?
What is the status of ColdFusion today?
I know you didn't ask about comparisons, you have made your decision. For building Flex/AIR apps with a data back-end imho ColdFusion or BlazeDs is the way to go. ColdFusion allows you to hook up the power of java to serve data with the easy of a scripting language. With that starting point you have your foot in the Java platform which is tremendously powerful and extensive. You can invoke interact with the Java layer and harness that power. Many will make the leap to Java or a more "friendly" JVM language like Groovy or JRuby.
do you guys have any advice on how I can use ColdFusion elsewhere.
slidesix is a recent example of an interesting use of ColdFusion. NASDAQ built Flex/AIR market replay application. Also you can check Ben Forta's site for more sites running ColdFusion to get some ideas.
But I think you already hit the nail on the head with Flex/AIR apps if you plan on making more, much of what Adobe does is work to make integration with their technologies as seamless as possible. Honestly that alone has been what has excited me most about using CFML and the recent addition of open source alternatives in Railo/BlazeDs I have been building Flex apps powered by Railo/BlazeDs without paying a dime to Adobe.
I guess the bottom line is that the Java platform (via CFML) and the Flash Platform (via Flex Framework ) are both not going anywhere any time soon, and for that matter neither is PHP so I think you will have a solid set of skill from which to build on either way you go.
ColdFusion is huge in Government, both at the Federal and State level. I moved to the D.C. area in large part because of the number CF jobs available around here.
So, you could always use it for gainful employment.
Update: Some links as requested
Ben Forta's list of sites using ColdFusion, Government category
Who uses ColdFusion - a list of ColdFusion development shops
GotCFM?com - a list of sites using ColdFusion; lots of government sites there (look under "N"; the "Government" category isn't fleshed out)
Adobe.com - abridged list of customers, some with links to case studies
Monster.com search "coldfusion" in Washington, DC
Dice.com search "coldfusion" in Washington, DC
You can get a basic reading of what people are paying for via (shudder) RentACoder: http://www.google.com/search?q=coldfusion+site%3Arentacoder.com
You can use coldfusion everywhere and as much as you like in PHP. There's enough free engines (Railo, Smith, OpenBlueDragon) that you can load into Tomcat instances, or use something like stax to put a coldfusion app into the cloud.
How far you do or don't go is up to you. I find that I write about 1/2 the code in coldfusion that I do in PHP. Maybe it's syntax that I feel less, I don't know.
But build your first project, I think the dots to connect will become apparent on their own