Category: Agent K on CF

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CFCs in CF 8 are REALLY fast

by kai on 15/10/2007

I'm working on a project which partly makes use of Mark Mandel's Tranfer framework. As with most of the object-oriented frameworks, it makes a pretty heavy use of CFCs. Whereas this was working reasonably well with CF 7, I found that in a particular set of use cases, ORM processing could easily take 2-3 seconds. Just for fun and the sake of giving it a try, I've put the same code in a CF 8…

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Farcry CMS free training course book

by kai on 21/09/2007

The guys from Daemon (namely Geoff Bowers I suppose) have released a Farcry CMS 4.0 for developers training course. Besides obtaining commercial instructor-led training or team mentoring via Daemon, they've put the training course material under a Creative Commons License for personal use. That's absolutely awesome as it's a great piece of documentation and learning material for people who're…

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Some CF 7/8 hotfix notes (to myself and others)

by kai on 19/09/2007

This issue came up on the German cf-discussion list the other day and I thought it's a good idea to post it. Someone had massive cfdocument issues. Well, we all know that cfdocument in CF 7 is somewhat of a tricky beast to deal with. So, Adobe has released a bunch of hotfixes at different stages of the product's lifecycle. The latest hotfix for CF 7.0.2 is CHF 3, it has just been released a few…

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Weird CF 8 installation issue on Parallels 3.0

by kai on 19/08/2007

I've tried to install CF 8 in my Parallels Win XP SP 2 Virtual Machine the other night. What happened was basically that the installer (InstallAnywhere) extracted all the files and also launched the actual installation wizard - but the windows of the installation window didn't render - it appeared to be just empty. Interesting enough - it wasn't empty - it basically turned out that all the…

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New Zealand CF 8 Launch Event

by kai on 06/08/2007

The NZ ColdFusion User Group is hosting a CF 8 launch event up in Auckland. You can either attend the meeting in person (food and drink would be provided) or tune in remotely via Adobe Connect. Please RVSP by tomorrow morning 9:30 am. Also worth a note - there will be a raffle of a ColdFusion 8 Standard edition server license - to be able to win you have to RVSP and attend the meeting (either in…

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Anyone else: java.lang.IllegalStateException: corrupt table in CF 8?

by kai on 06/08/2007

Someone I work with together is currently experiencing a very weird issue. They developed a few new features for their site and the development machine was on CF 8 for quite a while. Everything worked fine, no issues at all. Today, they've upgraded the production environment, deployed the new parts of the application and suddenly end up getting IllegalStateExceptions such…

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Job: Web developers at Sunshine Coast

by kai on 25/07/2007

One of my clients is looking for THREE web developers at the wonderful Sunshine Coast of Australia. You should have knowledge in ColdFusion and Java on the backend side of things, if you've got exposure to Flex- or Flash-based Rich Client development - even better. The job description is available online, have a look! You would be involved in a pretty cool international Flex/AIR development…

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NZ CFUG talk slides, recording and files

by kai on 07/07/2007

I've presented about different ways to deal with application configuration at the last NZ CFUG meeting. David Harris has published the recording, the slides are below, and I've also uploaded the example code.

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JSON and CF 7

by kai on 28/06/2007

This one is more a personal bookmark for myself, but it might be interesting for others as well. Chris just asked about JSON support in CF on the CFUGNewZealand list and I've recommended using CFJSON, which I'm pretty happy with.

While looking for the link I found Ben Nadel's posts about his own, modified version of CFJSON which seems to be interesting and def. worth a look.

Also, don't forget that CF 8 has some nice and inbuilt features to deal with JSON...

IIS shutdown on Windows

by kai on 25/06/2007

One of my clients' production CF servers went down during the weekend. When investigating the issue this morning, we actually found that it was not ColdFusion itself that crashed, but IIS - symptoms: "Service unavailable" pages when you were requesting any type of page from the server. The event logs listed the following: A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated…

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