I just spent some time helping a very irate customer. You know, the "ColdFusion sucks" "we're going to dump CF" "how can you sell this ****" brand of irate. The cause of all of this anger and frustration was very serious ColdFusion performance issues. And I am sure the individual has been under a...
Hal Helms has written an article entitled A New Vision for ColdFusion . For the most part, I agree with everything Hal says, although I don't really see this as a new vision, as much as being true to the original vision and intent. This one is recommend reading.
ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1 (containing a total of 14 fixes) has been released.
Marco Martins wrote to let me know about the new Brazilian National ColdFusion User Group . ColdFusion has some very important customers and deployments in Brazil, but community support withered somewhat during the Macromedia era, and this new group is going to be an important part of...
I just arrived in Toronto, and will be presenting here twice tomorrow: ColdFusion Powered Flex Seminar : Morning seminar at the Metro Convention Centre in downtown Toronto. Registration is required. Toronto ColdFusion User Group Presentation : A look at ColdFusion+Flex, and some Scorpio sneaks. If...
In addition to the existing ColdFusion and Flex portals, a new LiveCycle portal is now online.
Lots of us have needed a Flex ComboBox populated with U.S. States, and there are examples of that out there. But what I needed for an app I am working on is something a little different, a ComboBox that could display U.S. States or Canadian Provinces (but not at the same time, obviously). One...
I am working on a project that needs to do LDAP lookups, and lots of them. Some of my searches are for a single name, others are for multiple, and some allow partial matches (begin with passed string) while others don't. A simple LDAP test for equality filter might look like this: uid=jsmith....
The ColdFusion team released three hot fixes recently: System Error and System Out log file rotation JRun generates Java stderr and stdout logs as [server name]-err and [server name]-out when running as a Windows service, however, the files do not rotate. Using named parameters with stored...
Kuler is a new online application that you can use to explore and experiment with colors and color themes. Honestly, I am not a designer (duh!), so while the UI is cool I doubt it's an app I'll use much myself. What is really cool, at least for me, is that the backend for this app is ColdFusion...