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078 Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets) with John Farrar
John Farrar talks about “Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
Why build APIs in ColdFusion?
Built in
Works reliably
Why APIs
Link to other apps
Separate data connector from biz logic
Microservices
Vue, Angular, React
Why Build in APIs using ColdBox and Postman
Why ColdBox for APIs
Why using ColdBox instead of Coop that you wrote
ColdBox 5 new features for APIs
RESTful principles work well with ColdBox
Why Postman for API
Postman is used by 5 million developers and more than 100,000 companies to access 130 million APIs every month.
Free upto 1,000 calls/month
$8-21/user/mo beyond that depending on the version
Included: 10,000 monitored calls/month, 1 million regular calls
Pre-purchased: $200/month for a pack of 500,000 monitored calls
Postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing.
Fake out your API
Mock API
Share API calls, folders, workspaces and environments
Document API
Views
Pretty
Raw
HTML
Debug API
Replay an API call
Test API
Part of your CI script
Postman Travis
Newman automated API testing
Smart test sequences
Monitor API
Use the console
What is Agile Dev?
Why should you care?
Regression testing
2 week sprints with 12-20 new features
Git feature branch merge with master branch then run automated tests
Continuous small wins
Fast stakeholders engagement and feedback
Retrospect meeting
What went well
What could have gone better
Vs who messed up
If you are not having fun then something is wrong
Naming sprints with fun name named from Letter of alphabet and random category
Einsteinium (letter E and chemical element)
Frakta (letter F and Ikea item)
More traction
Work as a team, less supervision
Scrum master
Breaks
Fear of sharing problems
Fear of asking for help
Code review
Egoless programming
Remote team: Zoom and Slack video chat and
Live share in Visual Studio Code review
Keeps your own UI preferences
Remote Pair programming
BDD style testing
Focus on critical tests > important tests > mundane tests
Writing a story vs check box testing
End to end integration test
Unit test
TestBox
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?
Mentioned in this episode
ColdBox
Postman
BDD – Behavior-Driven Development
RESTful principles
Building REST APIs in ColdBox documentation
CI = Continuous Integration
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
BHAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Agile development
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Has a CFML extension
TestBox and ColdBox extension
CFLint plug in
30% of CFers use it
CommandBox
Mark Drew Docker episode
Into The Box
Session Description:
Agile API Dev
In this session, we will be taking a look at built in APIs using ColdBox and Postman. Yes, postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing. If you think you know Postman, learn how to do BDD style testing, use the console and much more to build and maintain your APIs like never before.
Listen to the Audio
Bio
John Farrar
John Farrar started programming in the late 70's on a Commodore PET. He served in the U.S.Navy and then met his wife during his reservist years. This was when the Amiga drove his computer interest for several years. Eventually, he became a web developer and in the later 90's he started using ColdFusion building dynamic websites.
With about twenty years of web development, John has become known for his work with jQuery, Knockout and Vue AJAX libraries. Sustainable and profitable come together when the right technology is applied to the correct challenges. John enjoys focusing on a strategy that will bring impact without getting delayed by over-engineering.
Links
Twitter: www.twitter.com/@sosensible
Sos Apps https://www.signalhire.com/companies/sosensible-group-llc
Interview transcript
Michaela 0:01
Welcome back to the show today we're looking at agile cold fusion API development using the amazing postman and some behavior Driven Development secrets and co box with john far. And he's going to be talking on this at into the box in a few weeks time and we'll look at why you should be used building API's and cold fusion and why I'm particularly should be using the postman and co box for doing that and we'll look in detail of what cool things you can get with postman either in the free version or the paid version. So actually, you can get a long way with the paid the free version. And we'll also look at agile development and why you should be doing that. So welcome, john. Thank you. Good to be here. And in case you don't know, john has been in the cold fusion community for millennia, I think or possibly 20 years, one or the other two centuries. That was too
you cross the other century. And he's he's been involved with jQuery and knockout and view libraries. And he brought us cold fusion framework, which we'll talk about a little bit later. So first of all, what let's talk about API's, why should people listening be building their APIs using cold fusion?
John Farrar 1:21
Well, one of the reasons as it works, it's a lot of things we do, we jump in, we don't even know if it's going to work. And we find out there, there's all these, ah, I wish I would have known but in particularly when using cold fusion and called box that technologies, they're cold fusion effect has some API stuff in it, or Lucy that both variations, but call box adds a real mature system. And, and when I talk about that, and particular way to you guys, see, if you haven't started messing with it, bots, five should be out for the show. And it has some nice enhancements along the API line.
Read more
And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.
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John Farrar talks about “Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
Why build APIs in ColdFusion?
Built in
Works reliably
Why APIs
Link to other apps
Separate data connector from biz logic
Microservices
Vue, Angular, React
Why Build in APIs using ColdBox and Postman
Why ColdBox for APIs
Why using ColdBox instead of Coop that you wrote
ColdBox 5 new features for APIs
RESTful principles work well with ColdBox
Why Postman for API
Postman is used by 5 million developers and more than 100,000 companies to access 130 million APIs every month.
Free upto 1,000 calls/month
$8-21/user/mo beyond that depending on the version
Included: 10,000 monitored calls/month, 1 million regular calls
Pre-purchased: $200/month for a pack of 500,000 monitored calls
Postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing.
Fake out your API
Mock API
Share API calls, folders, workspaces and environments
Document API
Views
Pretty
Raw
HTML
Debug API
Replay an API call
Test API
Part of your CI script
Postman Travis
Newman automated API testing
Smart test sequences
Monitor API
Use the console
What is Agile Dev?
Why should you care?
Regression testing
2 week sprints with 12-20 new features
Git feature branch merge with master branch then run automated tests
Continuous small wins
Fast stakeholders engagement and feedback
Retrospect meeting
What went well
What could have gone better
Vs who messed up
If you are not having fun then something is wrong
Naming sprints with fun name named from Letter of alphabet and random category
Einsteinium (letter E and chemical element)
Frakta (letter F and Ikea item)
More traction
Work as a team, less supervision
Scrum master
Breaks
Fear of sharing problems
Fear of asking for help
Code review
Egoless programming
Remote team: Zoom and Slack video chat and
Live share in Visual Studio Code review
Keeps your own UI preferences
Remote Pair programming
BDD style testing
Focus on critical tests > important tests > mundane tests
Writing a story vs check box testing
End to end integration test
Unit test
TestBox
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?
Mentioned in this episode
ColdBox
Postman
BDD – Behavior-Driven Development
RESTful principles
Building REST APIs in ColdBox documentation
CI = Continuous Integration
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
BHAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Agile development
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Has a CFML extension
TestBox and ColdBox extension
CFLint plug in
30% of CFers use it
CommandBox
Mark Drew Docker episode
Into The Box
Session Description:
Agile API Dev
In this session, we will be taking a look at built in APIs using ColdBox and Postman. Yes, postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing. If you think you know Postman, learn how to do BDD style testing, use the console and much more to build and maintain your APIs like never before.
Listen to the Audio
Bio
John Farrar
John Farrar started programming in the late 70's on a Commodore PET. He served in the U.S.Navy and then met his wife during his reservist years. This was when the Amiga drove his computer interest for several years. Eventually, he became a web developer and in the later 90's he started using ColdFusion building dynamic websites.
With about twenty years of web development, John has become known for his work with jQuery, Knockout and Vue AJAX libraries. Sustainable and profitable come together when the right technology is applied to the correct challenges. John enjoys focusing on a strategy that will bring impact without getting delayed by over-engineering.
Links
Twitter: www.twitter.com/@sosensible
Sos Apps https://www.signalhire.com/companies/sosensible-group-llc
Interview transcript
Michaela 0:01
Welcome back to the show today we're looking at agile cold fusion API development using the amazing postman and some behavior Driven Development secrets and co box with john far. And he's going to be talking on this at into the box in a few weeks time and we'll look at why you should be used building API's and cold fusion and why I'm particularly should be using the postman and co box for doing that and we'll look in detail of what cool things you can get with postman either in the free version or the paid version. So actually, you can get a long way with the paid the free version. And we'll also look at agile development and why you should be doing that. So welcome, john. Thank you. Good to be here. And in case you don't know, john has been in the cold fusion community for millennia, I think or possibly 20 years, one or the other two centuries. That was too
you cross the other century. And he's he's been involved with jQuery and knockout and view libraries. And he brought us cold fusion framework, which we'll talk about a little bit later. So first of all, what let's talk about API's, why should people listening be building their APIs using cold fusion?
John Farrar 1:21
Well, one of the reasons as it works, it's a lot of things we do, we jump in, we don't even know if it's going to work. And we find out there, there's all these, ah, I wish I would have known but in particularly when using cold fusion and called box that technologies, they're cold fusion effect has some API stuff in it, or Lucy that both variations, but call box adds a real mature system. And, and when I talk about that, and particular way to you guys, see, if you haven't started messing with it, bots, five should be out for the show. And it has some nice enhancements along the API line.
Read more
And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.