Agent K on CF

Agent M on CF performance tuning

by kai 05/10/2004

Yesterday Marcus gave a session on CF performance tuning. If you missed it – or got dropped out near the end due some technical issues, here’s the preso as a Flashpaper: A PDF file is available here

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Critical CF and JRun security issue

by kai 24/09/2004

Macromedia recently released two security warnings regarding CF and JRun. Running them in combination with Microsofts IIS using the IIS connector it might be possible to view and spy the source code of not Macromedia related third party files: Description and patch files for CFMX: MPSB04-09 – Cumulative Security Patch available for ColdFusion MX Description […]

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Breezo: ColdFusion Performance Tuning

by kai 24/09/2004

The famous Agent M of Blog in Black 😉 (aka Marcus Raphelt) is going to host a Breeze talk on ColdFusion Application Performance Tuning on Oktober, 4th 2004. Start is at 4 p.m. German time, that should be 10 a.m. on Americas east coast, 7 a.m. west coast and something around midnight in Australia (sorry […]

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CF/JRun Java VM monitoring

by kai 18/09/2004

Inspired by Geoffs posting “Maximum JVM heap size for CFMX” I’ll played a bit more intense with JVMStat, a tiny tool provided by Sun with the purpose of monitoring your JVM and its garbace collection. It’s really amazing what it is able to show you about the internal status of your JVM. This is very […]

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JRun 4 Updater 4

by kai 15/09/2004

Marcomedia released updater 4 for JRun 4, which might affect all guys among you who are running CF and/or Flex on it. The download URL is http://www.macromedia.com/support/jrun/updaters.html and I wonder if there is at least some piece of information somewhere around to provide a brief overview on the bugs fixed and on possible impacts of […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai 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 […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai 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 😉

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai 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 […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai 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 […]

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai 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 […]

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