CFFaq.com is now online in Romanian, bringing the number of live languages to thirteen. Thanks to Andrei Oprea 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.
A user asked me for a list of the various online exams hosted on my site, so I threw an exam listing page together at http://www.forta.com/books/exams.cfm. Old (as in updated) exams are listed too, as are exams I host for other authors (the Flash ones). If you are feeling brave, try the ColdFusion...
I spent some time today playing with the latest version of BrowserHawk (sent to me by Richard Litofsky of cyScape, thanks). If you've never heard of BrowserHawk, it is a server-side utility which reports browser capabilities and features (whether cookies are enabled or not, which plug-ins are...
Lots of chatter on the lists today in response to the announcement that Contribute 2 has a product activation feature designed to curb the use of unlicensed software. While I am not a big fan of activation schemes in any form, the fact of the matter is that casual piracy is a big problem (decreased...
Several blogs have quoted me as saying that "Red Sky" (the ColdFusion MX maintenance release due out this summer) can deliver mail at 1 million messages per second. The origin of this quote seems to be an online user group presentation I gave last month, but the quote is slightly off. What I did...
I am now getting spammed regularly by spammers offering to sell me anti-spam software. The fact that they keep sending these messages is making me think that there are idiots out there who are actually taking them up on the offer. And honestly, I find that more troubling than the spam itself.
Here is a question I received via e-mail over the weekend, and my response. I thought it was worth sharing. What does the "Use J2EE session variables" ColdFusion Administrator option do, and should I use it? And if I should use it, why is that option not checked by default? There are two ways that...
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...