Over the past few weeks I visited lots of user groups and presented a session on working with multiple ColdFusion instances. Some of you have asked for a copy of that presentation, and so I have tweaked it slightly (to bring it in line with ColdFusion MX 6.1 Enterprise) and published it as a Breeze...
It's official, ColdFusion MX 6.1 (the product formerly known as "Red Sky") has been released. Lots more details to follow. For now you can get more info (and the product) from http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/. Oh, and as a maintenance releases, ColdFusion MX 6.1 is free to licensed...
If you are developing CFXs using the Java CFXAPI this one will get on your nerves (it's bugging me big time, and based on Christian Cantrell's recent messages to me it is bugging him endlessly too). C/C++ CFX tags have a "Keep DLL Loaded" checkbox, but Java CFXs do not. Java CFXs are Java classes...
I've been finding myself doing more and more Java coding as of late (including rewriting several C/C++ CFX tags in Java). For the most part I have gotten used to the language (although I've found myself wanting to use C style preprocessor directives like #ifdef on more than one occasion). But the...
The Windows to Linux port tripped me up again, and this is an embarrassing one because I have written about just this issue, and apparently ignored my own advice. Nothing major, in fact it went unnoticed for several months (as this is on the first site that I ported), but a gotcha nonetheless....
I've been playing with the polling application included in DRK4, you can see an example of this on the left side of my blog page. Pollster comes with a ColdFusion administrator tool used to define polls (the question, what the answers are, etc.) as well as to report or show responses. After you...
I've come down with a horrible flu. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that this is not fun. I was supposed to present to the Southern California ColdFusion Users Group (SCCFUG) tonight, but that is not going to happen now. The group web site at http://www.sccfug.org/ will post the...
Looking for translations of any of my books? Various books have been translated into a total of 12 languages (that I know of). At the request of several of my non-English speaking readers I have posted a list of all translations that I am aware of at http://www.forta.com/books/intl.cfm. If you know...
My blog now has a WAP interface. Why? Well, it started as playing around, and then I gave a copy to Ray Camden and have since been keeping up with his blog via my cell phone (in airports, taxis, wherever). It's been working so well, that I added lots more functionality to the code over this past...
German Macromedia partner Interlake GmbH is graciously offering free ColdFusion and Flash Comm Server hosting to any ColdFusion community or user group sites. They have also created a Flash Comm application that can be branded and used by user groups to broadcast meetings. To learn more visit...