I recently needed to change the JRE used by JRun (to a newer version). No problem, just stop JRun, remove the old JRE, install the new one and restart JRun. Right? Nope. JRun stores the JRE path, and that needs to be updated to reflect the new JRE location. It took a few minutes to find where this...
Macromedia and IBM are pleased to announce the availability of ColdFusion MX Enterprise 6.1 for IBM zSeries mainframe. This integrated infrastructure is designed to provide the most productive, scalable and powerful web application platform for enterprise customers. This new product offering is...
I received a package today, it contained copies of the Turkish translation of my "Certified ColdFusion MX Developer Study Guide" (I had no idea that it was being translated, so a pleasant surprise indeed). The translation is by Medyasoft (at http://www.medyasoft.com.tr/) who also translated my...
Standpipe Studios has upgraded Vertabase Pro, its Web-based project management application. This new version runs on ColdFusion MX 6.1, and provides new graphical reporting capabilities, increased flexibility of individual task reports and improved data entry. Vertabase Pro, available in hosted and...
SearchDatabase.com just posted an editorial on databases and object abstractions, stating quite emphatically that object design should not be mapped to database design (I agree). The author also lists three rules (all of which I agree with); keep your business rules in the database, use the...
Geek.com is running a story on how the AMD Opteron 248 outperforms Intel Xeon 2.8GHz MP in server benchmarks. So what has this to do with ColdFusion? The test was performed using a ColdFusion application. To quote: "In a two CPU head-to-head comparison running a stressful Web server script and a...
This one was found by a ColdFusion user at Lockheed Martin who sent me a CFC that could not be invoked via SOAP, on every call it threw "Duplicate declaration of local variable t" errors. The problem? "t" is kind of reserved, the CFC to Java conversion code defines "t" as java.lang.Throwable. This...
Steve Nelson has created some really nice HomeSite (and ColdFusion Studio) add-ons. He has a documentation generator, a test generator, and several utilities specifically for Fusebox users. The full tool list is at http://www.secretagents.com/index.cfm?&fuseaction=tools.listtools.
Pre CFMX days, I wrote a CFX tag for adding and deleting debugging IP addresses without needing ColdFusion Administrator access. That tag simply manipulated the registry, and obviously it will not work with CFMX (which thankfully no longer uses the registry to store those settings). So, after some...
PakTribune.com, the online version of the Pakistan Tribune, is running a story today on how, with the merging of powerful back-ends and usable front-ends, the true power of the Internet is just now becoming a reality. To quote: "One of the most recent signs of this new evolutionary phase is the...