And then there was Webstock 2013 (day 1)

by kai on 18/02/2013

I spent Thursday and Friday of last week at the awesome Webstock conference. I'm not gonna go into all the details of what it is, why it's so awesome and why it sells out before they even put the programme together (I got asked the latter by a friend of mine who couldn't believe the fact that there was no programme until 2 weeks ago or so and that the conference still sold out). Instead, I'm…

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CFML differences between Railo and ColdFusion 9/10 (Part 2)

by kai on 18/02/2013

Yeah, so much for "I'll post part 2 tomorrow...". Sorry guys, life and work got kind of in the way. Here's part 2 now though :) 4. Date comparison If you use if constructs for string comparison in ColdFusion, the server will always check if a string on either side of your if-condition could potentially be a date value in a string. Railo uses a different approach and will only check for this if at…

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CFML differences between Railo and ColdFusion 9/10 (Part 1)

by kai on 09/02/2013

As promised in my last post, I'm starting a short series of observations I made when working with clients here in Australia and New Zealand on porting CFML applications between ColdFusion and Railo. Please note that this post (and the follow-up posts) is not meant to be judgmental in any way, it's just supposed to deliver a neutral view of what I found to be different when working with real-world…

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Thoughts on CFML in Railo, ColdFusion and Open BD

by kai on 09/02/2013

Recently I've become more involved with the Railo community. A lot of clients (and myself, too) are really impressed with what the Railo team has delivered with version 4 of the Railo server. There's a lot of interest and inquires from people wanting help to investigate what'd be involved with moving/porting their application from Adobe ColdFusion 9 to Railo 4. Working on some of those scenarios,…

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Java | ColdFusion | Railo security update

by kai on 05/02/2013

This is just a quick free-of-charge public service announcement that Oracle has released Java 6 Update 39. Why is this important for users of ColdFusion or Railo? A lot of people are running their Railo and ColdFusion servers on Java 6. Update 39 is a so called "update to the JRE Security Baseline of Java 6" and you want to be on Update 39 to make sure you are protected by the latest security…

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Adobe Connect (hosted): make sure your user profile timezone is correct

by kai on 18/01/2013

The other day I was helping a client who are using Adobe Connect (hosted on the Adobe servers) and experienced an issue with scheduling meetings. What was basically happening was that when they scheduled a meeting it would always be created in US Pacific time. I do have admin access to their hosted Connect account, so I quickly tried it and (obviously :-) it worked fine for me. The timezone…

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Two tips to make Railo 4's default installation more secure

by kai on 16/01/2013

You might have read my recent post about installing Railo 4 on a Debian server. Post-install I did a bit of clean up and also used Pete Freitag's excellent hackmycf.com against that server. Many people might not know that it does support checking Railo servers as well as Adobe ColdFusion servers. Two interesting things popped up: 1. Server Header Version Disclosure - what that essentially means…

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Trying to explain why I'm not an ACP anymore

by kai on 14/01/2013

Recently a few people started to realise that I'm not an ACP (Adobe Community Professional) anymore and asked me why. This is going to be an explanation of how it came to this situation from my point of view. I want to make it very clear that I'm not looking back in anger and that this is not a revenge blog post or anything alike. I am still involved with Adobe in certain aspects both from a…

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Time travel

by kai on 13/01/2013

About 10 years ago, Diane and I went to Australia for the first time ever. There will probably be a special blog post to celebrate the occasion at some stage in February. Today I just got reminded of the trip because an "anonymous friend" of mine sent me this: Now go back in time to that elevator in King's Cross and say: "one day in 10 years time, when Diane and I are living in New Zealand,…

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Installing Railo 4.0.2 on Debian

by kai on 13/01/2013

I recently installed Railo 4.0.2 on a Debian server and it was an absolutely smooth ride. I essentially followed the installation guide provided in the Railo wiki. It's really straight forward, but let's go through the steps. Start here: Installation:InstallerDocumentation:LinLaunching Most likely (on a web server environment) you won't have a UI available to you. You can grab the installer with…

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