Three more locations added to my summer US user group tour, two locations in CA and one in TX. Dates and locations are posted on my home page. If you're in the area (or rather, if I'm in your area), make sure to come by and say "hi".
ColdFusion lets developers access files and directories using tags like and and functions like FileExists(). These tags and functions have access to local drives only. ColdFusion (on Windows) runs as a service, and Windows services by default cannot access other servers. Is there a workaround? Yes,...
I had the pleasure of speaking to a user group in Washington, DC last night. Attendance was great, and the crowd was interactive and enthusiastic (as per usual in DC). I polled the group: about a half were using CFMX, just under a half were using CF5, and a few were still using CF4.x. Only 1...
It happened, the first "porting" problem reported to me by a user. Last week I moved my sites from a Windows 2000 box to Linux 8 running Apache 2.4. The move was about us painless as can be (with the exception of having to rename a few copies of application.cfm to Application.cfm). Today a user in...
Several people have asked recently about running ColdFusion on Windows Server 2003 (including one gentleman at the NY CFUG event last night). So, here's the scoop. Windows Server 2003 is not supported in ColdFusion MX, but will be supported in the upcoming "Red Sky" maintenance update (which will...
Someone posted a message on cf-talk today that quickly mushroomed into a discussion on shared hosting and the related security risks. There is nothing wrong with shared hosting, and for many applications shared hosting may be the right choice (due to the low cost). But such an environment does have...
We've finally nailed down dates for my summer US user group tour. So far we have East Coast dates (NY, PA, DC, MA) and Midwest dates (MI, OH, MN) posted. West Coast dates are still being finalized. Dates and locations are posted on my home page. If you're in the area (or rather, if I'm in your...
In response to my article on the Flash Data Connection Kit (at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/data_conn.html) many of you have written to me asking about comments I made as to how to use (or not use) the Firefly components in production environments. Some of the specific...
CFFaq.com is now online in Turkish, bringing the number of live languages to twelve. Thanks to Bora Ünal for the translation. Visit http://www.cffaq.com/ to browse the FAQs, as well as to comment on questions and answers, or to suggest additional questions.
I spent the day in Washington, DC today (thank goodness for air conditioning!) meeting with various government agencies all of whom use ColdFusion. I love spending time with government agencies as they tend to be a microcosm of the real world - all sorts of developers with all sorts of needs and...