Category: Agent K on CF

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How not to use ColdFusion! A sad story!

by kai on 15/11/2007

Oh Dear, I was just taking to a friend of mine back in Germany - actually the talk moved on to CF-related stuff and a reasonably large CF site over there. Disclaimer before I start: this is a general rant and not against particular people. It's just sad to see how people with a very limited CF knowledge actively can kill off the use of CF in an organisation. Really, really sad! In this particular…

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CF 8 Hotfix 2

by kai on 15/11/2007

ColdFusion 8.0 cumulative hot fix 2 is available. It fixes a good amount of bugs, including the ones that were already fixed in CHF 1. As always - this is a new piece of software, so make sure you actually have to fix one of those issues in your apps if you want to install it immediately :) Otherwise give it a few days and see what other people are reporting - I too often come across people who…

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CFEclipse article on IBM Developerworks

by kai on 08/11/2007

Very nice - IBM Developerworks have published an article from Jim Priest on the CFEclipse ColdFusion plugin for Eclipse.

Besides an introduction tutorial on installation, Eclipse terminology and the CFEclipse views, the article also covers debugging with CF 8 in Eclipse as well as deployment using the FTP Synchronization of Aptana.

Excellent article Jim, and awesome to see that IBM gives CFEclipse some coverage!

CFCamps in Australia

by kai on 03/11/2007

Just in case you live in OZ and haven't heard about the upcoming CFCamps:

CFCAMP dates and venues:
* Sydney - 20th November, at Rydges World Square
* Brisbane - 21st November, at BCEC
* Melbourne - 22nd November, at Crown Promanade
* Perth - 27th November, at Hyatt Regency

It's free, but make sure you register online: http://cfcamp.eventbrite.com/

Full agenda details for each city available on the WIKI: http://cfcamp.pbwiki.com/

JRunConfig Errorurl

by kai on 03/11/2007

I've come across that because a customer of mine wanted to have a nice error page displayed in case of having to restart ColdFusion or any other woe with the underlying JRun.

You can configure that particular type of error page in the HTTP server connector and it's fairly straight forward for Apache as it's just one line of the connector configuration module in httpd.conf:

JRunConfig Errorurl targetURL

German CFUG: Hidden Gems in CF8 and Coldspring

by kai on 02/11/2007

Charlie Arehart presented "Hidden Gems in CF 8" for the German CFUG a few weeks ago. I can really recommend this preso to anyone who is either looking into buying/upgrading to CF 8 or even already using it. The recording is available online. While I was looking at the German cfug.de site, I came across another set of slides that might be interesting for at least some of you. Harry Klein of…

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Where does ColdFusion "sit"?

by kai on 02/11/2007

Answer: it's the "hub" - I really like Tim's visualization of ColdFusion's positioning in the centre of the IT infrastructure! Very nice, and I hope as many people as possible grab this interpretation and use it in their efforts to establish CF in their organisation!

And while we're speaking of Tim Buntel: Andrew Muller did an interview with Tim during MAX, it's online on BuilderAU.

(both via CFUG NZ)

The Swiss CF boom...

by kai on 02/11/2007

...is apparently reaching new heights. The SWISS CFUG has currently 12 CF-related job listings online. Given how small the Swiss market is, I'm very happy that CF is taking off there (again).

Kay Smoljak@Sitepoint

by kai on 22/10/2007

Kay Smoljak, world-known CF- and web standards activist has started blogging about ColdFusion on sitepoint.com. I'm very happy about that because Kay is a very respected, honest, intelligent and straight-forward geek friend of mine (D*** it, I should have opted for the Cyndi Lauper concert - someone wants to sponsor my flight?) - and I'm convinced that her new blog (besides the other blogs she's…

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ColdFusion 8 is not an immature and unproven technology! Get it please!

by kai on 15/10/2007

Sometimes, I'm just running out of arguments when discussing with people about the future of ColdFusion as their platform or about upgrade paths etc. The following happened just the other week. Organisation A works with ColdFusion for a very long time (since CF 3 or so). You'd expect them to know about it and to value/appreciate it - why would you bother to stick with it if you think it's total…

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