Agent K on CF

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

by kai 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 […]

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Farcry CMS free training course book

by kai 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 […]

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

by kai 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 […]

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Weird CF 8 installation issue on Parallels 3.0

by kai 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 […]

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New Zealand CF 8 Launch Event

by kai 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 […]

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

by kai 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 […]

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Job: Web developers at Sunshine Coast

by kai 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 […]

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NZ CFUG talk slides, recording and files

by kai 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. Download the pdf or read it online below:

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JSON and CF 7

by kai 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 […]

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IIS shutdown on Windows

by kai 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 […]

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