Robert Blackburn @ OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE

Robert Blackburn

Robert Blackburn is a developer and team leader of the Internet Application Development team at American Power Conversion Corporation (http://www.apcc.com). He has been using ColdFusion since 1999, and has revived and manages the CFUnit open source project (http://cfunit.sourceforge.net). He currently has a blog at http://www.rbdev.net/devblog for his occasional ramblings.

Designing ColdFusion Applications With UML

By Robert Blackburn

Developers are no different, yet I see 'improv developing' all the time. A project manager will just describe what's needed - the outlines of a plot - and let the developers work it out. The results are often what you'd see with a movie. However, designing an appl...

Jul. 19, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 25,215 Replies: 1

Introducing Aptana: An Alternative to Eclipse

By Robert Blackburn

A few months ago I stumbled on an IDE named Aptana and I instantly recognized that it was the perfect IDE for developers who have found it difficult to convert to CFEclipse. And why is it such a great replacement? For starters Aptana is actually based on Eclipse. ...

Mar. 8, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 14,847 Replies: 1

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