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Oct 5
By: Luis Majano
We always are trying to help the ColdFusion community as much as we can. We had a CFC best practices document in our ColdBox documentation site in order to steer developers in the right direction when building components. I have updated the document to now include more topics than just CFCs. So if you are interested in collaborating to this document or think some points are useless, please comment and we can make this document better.
So here are our ColdFusion Development Best Practices document: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbDevelopmentBestPractices
Oct 6, 2009 at 3:20 AM Some interesting thoughts although you'll never get *everyone* to agree with *all* of them :-)
It might be nice to include some justification to the reccomendations. For example I understand but don't like...
<cfif len(firstName)></cfif>
...as len() doesn't return a boolean.
Discuss...
Oct 6, 2009 at 6:41 AM Heh, I haven't even got past the first screen, and I already disagree with half of it!
The only one I'll explicitly state here is that "regex" is significantly more common (and less typing) than "regexp".
Oct 6, 2009 at 7:29 AM I use code like
<cfif len(firstName)></cfif>
all the time. It's just shorter than writing
<cfif len(firstName) gt 0></cfif>
And the intent of the code is very clear to me. I'm not hung up on that len() doesn't return a boolean (even though it acts like it does), since CF is loosely typed anyway.
I think a lof of these types of things just come down to personal preferences. The important thing is that you should have standard coding practices (whatever they may be) and stick to them.
Oct 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM @Tony - Be careful you don't end up on Sean's DNH list :-)
From his "ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines - Good Practice" doc http://livedocs.adobe.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/goodpractice.html he says "...don't rely on implicit conversions from numeric types to boolean".
But you're right, it's a personal style thing and any standard is better than none.
Oct 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM @dickbob
Yikes! I'll try to be careful. Thanks for the heads up! ;-)