This morning, Adobe has released an update for ColdFusion 9 -  ColdFusion 9.0.1. I'm very happy about the final release of the updater 1 as it doesn't just contain a lot of bug fixes but also whole bunch of new and/or improved features. There's a lot of improvement in ColdFusion's ORM, but also in the caching. You can find a more detailed overview in Ray Camden's blog post on CF 9.0.1. Here are…

I recently came across a discussion on the German ColdFusion mailing list where people talked about the alleged inability of ColdFusion Builder to deal properly with German umlauts. Phrases like "this product is completely unusable" or "this is a bug that has been continuously ignored by the CF Builder team" were used. After having tried it myself with files of a variety of encodings, I can…

Here we go - part II of an approach into sizing ColdFusion variables from within ColdFusion. In part I I introduced the problem we're trying to solve, a general solution (JVM instrumentation) and also pointed you to the JavaSpecialists newsletter #142 for a working solution (from a Java point of view). Heinz also commented in part I and pointed out that there is a full-blown open source project…

I'm again speaking at this year's webDU (and it's going to be the 8th time in a row - I think the only other people who have presented at each MXDU/webDU since it started in 2003 are Andrew Muller and Mr. Geoff Bowers himself now, yay!). BTW: Did everyone realise that the registration for webDU 2010 is open and that the Early Bird price (AU$ 695 is really a bargain for the two days) runs out on…