ColdFusion

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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How not to use ColdFusion! A sad story!

by kai 15/11/2007

Oh Dear, I was just taking to a friend of mine back in Germany – actually the talk moved on to CF-related stuff and a reasonably large CF site over there. Disclaimer before I start: this is a general rant and not against particular people. It’s just sad to see how people with a very […]

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coldfusioncommunity.org

by kai 15/11/2007

Another social network – sigh – need a third screen to always keep those types of apps/websites opened 🙂 Coldfusioncommunity.org is a bit different though because it’s very tailored to people who actually work with CF. Have a look and give it a try, I’m obviously in there as well: http://www.coldfusioncommunity.org/profile/KaiKoenig

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CFEclipse article on IBM Developerworks

by kai 08/11/2007

Very nice – IBM Developerworks have published an article from Jim Priest on the CFEclipse ColdFusion plugin for Eclipse. Besides an introduction tutorial on installation, Eclipse terminology and the CFEclipse views, the article also covers debugging with CF 8 in Eclipse as well as deployment using the FTP Synchronization of Aptana. Excellent article Jim, and […]

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JRunConfig Errorurl

by kai 03/11/2007

I’ve come across that because a customer of mine wanted to have a nice error page displayed in case of having to restart ColdFusion or any other woe with the underlying JRun. You can configure that particular type of error page in the HTTP server connector and it’s fairly straight forward for Apache as it’s […]

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