If you use the MXUnit testing framework for ColdFusion, you might have come across this earlier -- the assertEquals assertion is case-insensitive.

This means that if you try and compare a string like 'abs' and 'Abs', assertEquals returns true.

And that is ok in certain cases, but is not ok in many other. I guess it boils down to the fact that at the end of the day, ColdFusion is case-insensitive. A variable called 'firstName' is the treated the same as 'FirstName'.

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By default the CFWheels framework and application is installed in the webroot.

But if you want to install it in a subfolder in the webroot, you need to change the rewrites slightly.

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A couple of weeks back I presented at CFObjective ANZ in Melbourne, on how to make ColdFusion development a little more cooler using a decentralized version control system (DVCS) like Git.

The basic idea behind the presentation was this:

A commonly used version control system in the ColdFusion community is Subversion -- a centralized system that relies on being connected to a central server. The next generation version control systems are decentralized, in that version control tasks do not rely on a central server.

Decentralized version control systems are more efficient and offer a more practical way of software development.

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