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

by kai 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 […]

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Thoughts on CFML in Railo, ColdFusion and Open BD

by kai 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 […]

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

by kai 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 […]

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CFCamp 2012 post-mortem

by kai 21/10/2012

Ok, it’s over. I’m back at Frankfurt international, Terminal 2 – just one level above where I arrived last Sunday morning coming from Sydney and Singapore for CFCamp 2012 in Munich. To start with the essentials: It was great. Michi Hnat and his organising helpers have done a really, really good job. The conference venue […]

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2DDU (2 developers down under) podcast episode 26: Marcin and Phil

by kai 13/10/2012

The other day, Mark and I recorded another episode of our 2DDU podcast. This time we’re being joined by Marcin Szczepanski and Phil Haeusler. Right at the start Mark proves again that he has no clue how to pronounce non-Australian last names correctly (he’s got a history there…:-) We’ve had a very nice chat with the two chaps […]

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Want to learn jQuery Mobile? In Munich or Melbourne? Book now!

by kai 13/10/2012

This is just a quick reminder that I’m teaching a full-day jQuery Mobile workshop on two occasions in October. For both session there are still tickets available, at the same time both have enough attendees to def. go ahead and happen! The first one is next week, October 17 in Munich. It’s part of CFCamp’s […]

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Why I might not come to CFCamp :-(

by kai 10/09/2012

About 1 month ago, I posted about CFCamp in Germany. Along with praising the efforts of Michi Hnat, the main organiser of CFCamp, I also said that I was going to attend, present at CFCamp and run workshops during the event’s CFAcademy. One might wonder why I’m now considering not going. Basically it comes down […]

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Direct Download Links for (older versions of) Adobe ColdFusion and others

by kai 06/08/2012

I just figured it’d be a good idea to create a quick blog post about how to find and download older versions of Adobe software. I got inspired by Robin Hilliard asking for a Solaris installer for ColdFusion 8 the other day on the cfaussie mailing list. He got lucky and Richard Turner-Jones from Adobe […]

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2DDU Podcast is back from the summer break

by kai 29/02/2012

Just a quick announcement that 2DDU (2 Devs from Down Under) Podcast is back from the summer break. This morning, Mark and I recorded episode 19 titled “We’re back with ColdFusion 10 Beta”.It’s all about … well … the ColdFusion 10 Beta. We also have a long list of other stuff we didn’t get to […]

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CFML update for IntelliJ IDEA 11

by kai 01/01/2012

The awesome people at Jetbrains (in particular Kirill is to be mentioned here) have made an BER (bleeding edge release) update of the CFML plugin in IntelliJ IDEA 11 available. In case you didn’t know – IntelliJ IDEA is an excellent IDE, quite heavily used by Java and Groovy developers. IntelliJ IDEA has a CFML […]

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