Coldfusion best practice guide request
A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230933 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Coldfusion best practice guide request
From: Mark W. Breneman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230934 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Coldfusion best practice guide request
one useful it's here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/contents.html hth On 2/1/06, Mark W. Breneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230936 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Coldfusion best practice guide request
I'd love to see this as well. I'm always up for cleaner/better/more efficient code. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Mark W. Breneman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Coldfusion best practice guide request A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230938 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Coldfusion best practice guide request
the term best practice is very subjective and likely to instigate brutal and bloody wars the likes of which civilization has never before witnessed. start off with Sean's coding guidelines and go from there :) http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/contents.html On 2/1/06, Mark W. Breneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230941 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Coldfusion best practice guide request
while not CF related, I was pretty impressed with the coding quidelines for drupal, which are based on the pear coding standards http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php some of it is php specific, but there is a lot of good stuff there that can go across languages. -jim On 2/1/06, Mark W. Breneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230952 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Coldfusion best practice guide request
Well, it is kinda 99.9% PHP specific ;-) -Original Message- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2006 15:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Coldfusion best practice guide request while not CF related, I was pretty impressed with the coding quidelines for drupal, which are based on the pear coding standards http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php some of it is php specific, but there is a lot of good stuff there that can go across languages. -jim On 2/1/06, Mark W. Breneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' Does anyone have a Coldfusion best practice guide that they would be willing to share? I am reviewing some of the things we call best practice in the office and hope to write up a best practice guide for myself. Plus, I always like seeing what other programmers know, often it is more than I thought I did. If you don't want to share your best practice guide on this list you can mail it to mark @ vividmedia.com thanks Mark W. Breneman -Cold Fusion Developer -Network Administrator Vivid Media www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230953 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Coldfusion best practice guide request
A few years ago (probably in the CF 5 days) someone on this list posted a two page Coldfusion best practice guide that they wrote. This Coldfusion best practice guide consisted of basic naming conventions for structures, tables and arrays along with a few basic performance best practices like use cfif len(foo) rather than cfif foo is not '' It is important not to confuse conventions with best practices. They are very different things. For example, it really doesn't matter how you name variables, as long as you do it consistently and apply a modicum of common sense. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230956 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Coldfusion best practice guide request
Best practices can be a very relative term and any docs you read will be based on the writers biases. For example, some say you should never use the public variable scope (this) in CFCs. Others say that there is no problem doing this. Some still say to lock memory variables (session, application, etc.) all the time while others say that it is only needed in a race condition. Some still say that IIF() is slower than CFIF while others know it compiles down to the exact same code. As long as you remember that the guidelines are just guidelines and not holy writ, you'll be ok. :) ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230957 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Coldfusion best practice guide request
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is important not to confuse conventions with best practices. They are very different things. For example, it really doesn't matter how you name variables, as long as you do it consistently and apply a modicum of common sense. With on exception... Hungarian Notation. :-) http://web.umr.edu/~cpp/common/hungarian.html ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230958 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
