Just for fun: What if your IDE had Achievements?

Posted by Mark Drew on code on January 19, 2012

Tagged under cfeclipse,coldfusion,cfml

Following on from a post that Visual Studio has an Achievements Plugin (very funny if you play on the XBox, Steam or PS3) I was just thinking what Achievements  could we unlock if we had a plugin for CFEclipse (or CFBuilder) whilst coding CFML?

I love some of the ones mentioned here:  http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/

As a starter for 10, here would be the ones I would add (and any sugestions welcome!) 

  • Big Boy Pants: Finally created a CFC
  • If you build it, they will come: Created a build.xml ant file
  • Sign o' the Times: renamed an Application.cfm to Application.cfc
  • So Close!: Created a CFC with more than 20 functions
  • Confusious Say!: Created a function with more than 10 arguments
  • "Where? What??": Have an include with lots of variables that come from "nowhere" (are set in the caller)

(EDIT:And now for some reader contributions:)

  • The Over Clocker: 40+ hours in the IDE in a week
  • The Mole: 50+ hours in the IDE in a week
  • UberCoder: 60+ hours...
  • The Hacker: 70+ hours!
  • The Lawyer: 80+ hours!!!
  • "Scriptaculous!": Create all your CFCs using cfscript syntax without using any tags at all.
  • "The Butler did it": Hook up a continuous integration server to run all your unit tests.
  • "Lethal Injection? Bring it on!" Use <cfqueryparam> in all your database queries.
  • "Var she blows!": Make sure you var all your local variables before you use them.
  • "Digging Deeper":Call at least one underlying java method directly from within coldfusion.
  • "To infinity and beyond!": Created an infinite loop.
  • "Manual-Complete" : Write a template over a set length without using auto-complete once.
  • "Hey Beavis, he wants to see your unit!" : Ran unit tests
  • "Old school": Use any deprecated language feature.
  • "Everyone isn't created equal": Use == and eq in the same file.
  • "....and then?": Use && and "and" in the same file.
  • "..or you'll do what?": Use || and "or" in the same file.

And now for some Arnie based ones:

  • "Stick around" - Use sleep().
  • "Who is your daddy and what does he do?" - Use CFlogin
  • "Consider that a divorce!" - First use of CFAbort
  • "I'm a cop you idiot!" - CFlocation tag with a 401 status code.

And back to some community based ones:

  • "If you build it, they will come (Corfield of Dreams)" - Make use of FW/1
  • "Big Ben" - Found Ben Nadel formatted comments.
  • "Use the Forge Luke!" - Found a Riaforge project.
  • "You say Rail-o, I say Rhylo, Let's call the whole thing off!" - Railo exclusive code found.
  • "01000100011101010110010001100101" - Use bitwise operators.
  • "Lost in space" - More than 10 CFC's without output="false".
  • "You're a bad mother BEEP" - Detect use of Chr(8)
  • "Chuck Norris" - All achievements earned
  • "Evil Dead, Chainsaw" - Detected use of Groovy (CFGroovy).
  • "Mezcal, not Tequila" - Bug found at the bottom of your file.
  • "Go Duplicate(your.self)!" - Copied, pasted and then saved without changing.
  • "You want the truth!?" - If statement containing >= 20 logic operators.
  • "At least open a window!" - 10 or more CFDump / WriteDump in a single file.
  • "Toilet break" - first use of cflog
  • "Getting rid of the evidence": first use of CFFlush
  • "Laxatives?" - Several uses of CFFlush in a single file.
  • "Dr. Strangelove": first use of ORM.

What would you add that is CFML specific? 

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