Category: Agent K on CF

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ZIP- and data type converter CFC

by kai on 05/07/2005

Arthur Kordowski put two new CFCs online. The first one is an abstracted zip-API which is basically leveraging Java's zip functionality for CF.

The other one is about data type conversion and allows you to transfer CF data types without flaws.

Both are available on Arthur's site ("My tools" in the right-hand menu) and are very well documented etc. Have a look, it's worth it!

ColdFusion VM Abort

by kai on 02/07/2005

Just recently I got to see this from one of my support customers: Heap at VM Abort: Heap PSYoungGen total 94144K, used 6649K [0x44950000, 0x4bb10000, 0x4bb10000) eden space 71808K, 0% used [0x44950000,0x449a8810,0x48f70000) from space 22336K, 28% used [0x4a540000,0x4ab65ed0,0x4bb10000) to space 22336K, 0% used [0x48f70000,0x48f70000,0x4a540000) PSOldGen total 932096K,…

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A quick impression of MX Kollektion 3

by kai on 01/07/2005

As most of you might know: I don't like Dreamweaver. Well, this is the polite version ;) Honestly, I don't think Dreamweaver is a good coding tool - which is the reason why I'm still on Homesite+ and prefer CFEclipse more and more. MX Kollection 3 is a pack of extensions for Dreamweaver and was just recently published by Interakt, who also developed the CFMX 7 Dreamweaver extensions shipped with…

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New CF community/tutorial site (in German)

by kai on 30/06/2005

Reinhard Jung started a new German-languaged community site for CF developers. It's called cf-workshop.de and he published several articles and tutorials already. More is to expect over the next weeks and months.

Sorry folks, the content is just in German language...;)

Another code name: ColdFusion "Scorpio"

by kai on 29/06/2005

"Scorpio" is the code name for the new ColdFusion major release. Work on it started but obviously there is no release or even preview yet :-)

Ben just talked about the directions they're heading to:

- continue to innovate regarding frontend and functionality
- allow to monitor, access and understand the internals of the server

Especially the latter would be a vast move, and I'd love to see that!

Macromedia officially to support CFEclipse

by kai on 29/06/2005

Tim Buntel just announced that Macromedia is officially going to support the CFEclipse project. Important: that doesn't mean a buyout or something. CFEclipse stays open source, MM will just put support and knowledge into the project.

This is awesome and the right decision from my point of view! They also announce a new "nightly build" and I'd personally expect a 2.0 release later this year.

ColdFusion Merrimack

by kai on 29/06/2005

ColdFusion "Merrimack" ist the code name for the upcoming ColdFusion MX 7 updater. But - and this promises to become very, very interesting - it won't just consist of a bunch of bug fixes, it will provide some new features: - new supported plattforms: MacOS X, Red Hat AS 3/4, Suse Linux Enterprise 8/9, Oracle AS 10g - finally there will be a CFCProxy, which will allow to call CFCs and their…

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Finding the best setting for simulatenous requests in CF

by kai on 15/06/2005

Life is always surprising, ColdFusion as well. If one talks about finding the best or just a good value for the simulatenous requests setting in your ColdFusion server, the recommended approach is to start with a value of 3 to 5 per CPU. Usually this works pretty good, maybe you have to adjust the values to 6 or 8 or even 2, but this time it was a bit different. I spent the last two days to…

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CFMX 7 Certified Developer Study Guide

by kai on 09/06/2005

Ben Forta just announced that the new release of his CF Certified Developer Study Guide book have been shipped. It should be a very good book and I can't stress it often enough: even if you don't intend to take the exam - get the book, it's a great source of compact CF knowledge to look things up etc. With the book Ben put a bunch of preparation questions online. There are 164 questions and you…

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A CF7 Flash forms double thumb slider

by kai on 08/06/2005

I recently built a double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms. As there is no Flash forms CFSLIDER tag, I searched the web and found an implementation of an awesome slider, done by Nahuel and Laura of asfusion.com . But I needed a slider with two thumbs, so I took their code and extended/changed it a bit. The result is available in my CF7 playground. This slider was (and still is...) a tough one,…

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