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...
First real problem on the Linux box. Sites were down for most of Sunday (and early Monday). Somehow Apache stopped running, it seems that a module was not at the version level that it required. (I am still trying to work out how this happened, I did update some RPMs last week, but if that caused...
If you have ever spent time optimizing the performance and user experience of your Web pages, then this utility may be the best $200 you'll spend. HttpWatch installs right into IE and displays a pane which exposes everything that a browser is doing when a URL is requested. You'll see the load time...
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...
This one has tripped me up a few times recently, so I thought it best to share. is used (among other things) to assign default values, for example . You can use CFML functions for the default value, but you must provide the expression as a string with #'s delimiting the function call. For example,...
I've been running all my sites and servers on Windows boxes for, well, since day one (make that CF1). About 3 months ago I brought a Linux box online (RedHat 8 running Apache 2.x), and somewhat nervously moved several of my lower volume sites (like http://www.cffaq.com/) over to it. Today marks 90...
Since September 9th 2000, I have been hosting a "ColdFusion Tip-of-the-Day" (in retrospect I probably should have been more realistic and named it the "CF Tip-of-Most-Days"). The tips (about a thousand of them) cover several versions of ColdFusion, as well as ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver too....
I am not a fan of applets (actually, I despise them), but I have found the one applet that almost justifies their creation. Anyone a former Infocom fan? How about a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan? If you are both, you'll love this one - Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (circa 1984)...
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...