Category: Agent K on CF

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone VI

by kai on 08/09/2004

- Multiple Instances: For most of the people it was a mess to setup CF with multiple instances on one machine. There is a instance manager now which allows to duplicate complete CF installations. Also, the nasty issue with the replication of CFC instances in the session scope (they didn't replicate) will be fixed...;) - CF DW Extensions: Creating datasources directly out of Dreamweaver etc. -…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai on 08/09/2004

Some more information on printing and stuff... - For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is a basic query builder, and wizards to define charts (in fact this is…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai on 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee... - Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. - Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format="pdf" creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type="header" or type="footer" etc. helps layouting…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai on 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: - Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. - Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a new attribute format="flash" which produces a Flash based GRID. By just reviewing…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai on 08/09/2004

Let me just express that I'm deeply impressed by the travel of Oğuz Demirkapı, User Group Manager of CFUG Turkey who travelled over to Cologne for seeing Ben speaking about Blackstone.

That's what I call a CF_GROUPIE ;)

Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai on 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session... - An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. - Did you know that CF was backwards compatible to DBML up to including CF 5? To clear that up: DBML was the first…

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cf-community.info

by kai on 02/09/2004

Yesterday cf-community.info went live. It's basically a webforum about all aspects of ColdFusion and related topics and driven by Nils Bettinger, the owner of CFMX Ltd. - imho Germanys best CF hoster.

The forum itself is in German and obviously not too crowded up to now, but that might change soon. Give it try, Germany ;)

Railo - another ColdFusion engine?

by kai on 31/08/2004

Today I stumbled about an email in the German cfguru mailing list. Some swiss guys are on the way to release a CFML runtime compiler engine called Railo. The mailing lists postings state the it should be faster than CFMX and also Blue Dragon - but for the moment they didn't implement all CFML tags yet.

They recently released Alpha 3 of Railo which I just downloaded this morning but I didn't play with it yet. There is some basic documentation online. Beta 1 is scheduled for end of October.

ColdFusion MX 6.1 updater

by kai on 26/08/2004

Macromedia published another updater for ColdFusion MX today. This time it's the first updater for the 6.1 release.

I really recommend installing the pack regarding the fact that it contains some sort of security hotfix bundle, the Jrun Updater 3 and a lot of tiny bugfixes for specific issues. Check it out!

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jessionid and server.id

by kai on 24/08/2004

An interesting detail: if you're dealing with ColdFusion clustering on J2EE servers, the file connector.properties in the ...\servers\cfusion\SERVER-INF folder containts a property called server.id. This property stores the four first characters of the automatically created JESSIONID values for ColdFusions session handling. For example if the server.id is set to abcd, all your JESSIONIDs on that…

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