Agent K on CF

A look into onApplicationStart (ColdFusion)

by kai 20/01/2010

Well, most of you would know that the onApplicationStart() method in ColdFusion’s Application.cfc is a single-threaded method that’s being executed by ColdFusion after the start of the application

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OS X quick look for ColdFusion

by kai 19/01/2010

I recently had to quickly glance over a whole lot of legacy CF files and I didn’t want to have to open each individual file in my preferred IDE. OS X supports quick look by hitting the space bar in finder for a lot of file types, ColdFusion wasn’t supported so far.

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CF 8.0.1: Deleting a file after attaching it to an email

by kai 13/11/2008

There’s a tiny, little new feature in CF 8 Updater 1 that I bet not many people even know about – I didn’t until yesterday. It came up during a discussion on cfaussie about attaching files to outgoing emails just the other day and it basically solves the problem of deleting a file after it […]

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Internationalisation with CF… – slides

by kai 01/07/2008

During the last few weeks, I’ve presented a session titled “Internationalisation with CF, Java and Flex” at various conferences and meetings. To name those: Scotch on the Rocks, webDU and the June user group meeting of the ColdFusion user group Germany. The session has changed a bit from SOTR to webDU to the CFUG session […]

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Breaking news: Railo to open source… Railo!!!!

by kai 05/06/2008

In about 5 minutes, the Swiss company Railo is going to announce the open-sourcing of their alternative ColdFusion/CFML engine Railo. Hang on, one might think – didn’t we have that just a few months ago with Open BlueDragon? Sort of, but this time the impact of the anouncement might be significantly different. The reason is, […]

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A few more thoughts on Railo going OS

by kai 05/06/2008

The Railo keynote has started and I’ll take a few minutes to share a few thoughts on the open sourcing of Railo on JBoss.org. Looking back a few months when Open BlueDragon was born, quite a few people stated their excitement that a “grown-up” CFML engine went open source. A rather large amount of people […]

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Plenty of CF jobs in Auckland

by kai 24/03/2008

Currently it appears is a lot of ColdFusion work available up in Auckland. A friend of mine, Liam Donaldson, is looking for a developer to work on his site bookabach.co.nz which has just recently been acquired by the AA – The job ad is stiill online. Liam is a great guy to work with, if […]

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The other day someone asked me…

by kai 24/03/2008

…about my opinion on the open-sourcing of Blue Dragon that has been announced a few weeks ago. To be honest: I do like it and I truely and honestly hope that they will manage to form a community around the open-source version of their product. Lots of people discussed the topic and it’s meaningfulness for […]

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FarCry 4 news

by kai 22/11/2007

There are a few FarCry 4 related news: FC CMS bundle 4.0.9 (with a few new features!) FC XStandard Release Candidate Check it out! Now! Do it right away! Now! 🙂

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CF 8 Hotfix 2

by kai 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 […]

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