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

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.

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 [...]

If your CF8 installation starts without error, but returns an error 500 stating something like…
“500 the monitoring service is not available”
…on each request, then probably your neo-monitoring.xml is corrupt. This solution did the trick for me:
-Rename or delete the corrupt {cf_dir}/lib/neo-monitoring.xml
-Restart CF
CF then creates a new neo-monitoring.xml, but totally refuses to work if this file [...]

Web of the Piste 2008 is not to far away – August 20 and 21, 2008. For all those of you not knowing the conference from last year, it’s a RIA technology event down in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Diane and I went down there last year and we had a lot of fun staying in Queenstown, [...]

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 and [...]

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, that [...]