VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available
We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades... more »
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Encryption of strings in Cold Fusion
Simple tutorian on CFM encryption
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Use ColdFusion? Use Java.
If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is... more »
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The Week in ColdFusion: 30 April-6 May: Is ColdFusion a programming language? blah blah blah…
There were a couple of big news items in the blogosphere this week, but making the most noise was the cf.Objective() conference. I’m not going to link... more »
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HA - Clustering ColdFusion Part 1 - Installing CF
This will be the first post in a series relating to clustering ColdFusion. In this first series of posts we will be looking at clustering CF at a... more »
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Be Cautious About Rolling Back To JVM 1.5
There have been several blog posts recently about class-loading issues apparently linked the use of the Sun-Java 1.6 (6.0) JVM. Mark Mandel has a... more »
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ColdFusion 8 - Nine month review.
I've been a bad boy. I was supposed to write a review of ColdFusion 8 back in October of last year, but an imminent change of job and my 10 month old... more »
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Vertical and Horizontal Clustering with ColdFusion
Clustering in particular with ColdFusion and JRun can get fairly complicated pretty fast and I urge all who are going to embark on clustering to plan... more »
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A Possible Problem When Using Hardware Clustering
I presented at CF.Objective on the subject of clustering and distributing ColdFusion applications. During the presentation I pointed out a "gotcha" I... more »
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java.lang.ref.SoftReference in CFML
CFChris provides a simple "how to" for using Java SoftReference with caching to leverage memory sensitive garbage collection with caching in... more »
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High Availability - Clustering
I have added several blog postings here before on the theories of High-Availability (HA) and Clustering. In this series of blog postings I will be... more »
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ColdFusion for JSP Developers
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to... more »
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Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.
If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to... more »
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Easy Setup Guide for BlazeDS: Zero to hero in (less than) an hour with Amazon EC2
Ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two... more »
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Dead Language (ColdFusion) breaks top 20 in the TIOBE for April 2008
Dead Language (ColdFusion) breaks top 20 with big jump in TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2008 "The TIOBE Programming Community index... more »
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The State of ColdFusion
Is Coldfusion dead. The Coldfusion community says, no. But in reality have we heard anything outside of the community.
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Selenium is NOT a framework
Selenium is not a framework but needs one desperately. I have noticed some references to selenium as a framework thus this blog posting. I am using... more »
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Mylyn Rocks, Mylyn Rocks
I feel like I am in Battlestar Galactica when using Mylyn to work inside Eclipse. Task focused user interface is the future and the future is... more »
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ColdFusion 8 Updater Released
ColdFusion 8 Update 1 provides developers with 64-bit support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and provides the latest updates to ColdFusion 8. The... more »
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Easy Rich Internet Applications With ColdFusion 8
The term Rich Internet Application (RIA) was coined by Macromedia (now Adobe) in 2002. An RIA is a web application -- it runs inside a web browser,... more »
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A Very Simple and Effective Captcha
Very simple anti-bot spam technique that works extremely well. It requires no javascript, cookies or complicated server weirdness, is fully... more »
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Closing The 404 Gap For Dynamic Page Generation With onMissingTemplate()
ColdFusion's new onMissingTemplate() function is a great addition to our toolbox, and mind blowingly useful for Dynamic Page Generation. Adam shows a... more »
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Setting JVM options on JBoss for ColdFusion 8 debugging
Set up ColdFusion debugging in Eclipse on a ColdFusion 8 server running on JBoss
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New Atlanta announces free open source BlueDragon edition
New Atlanta has announced plans to release a free open source edition of BlueDragon, their ColdFusion-compatible web application server. Since 2001,... more »
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Open Source CFML engine on the way!
New Atlanta has announced plans to release a free open source edition of BlueDragon
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