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 [...]

Yesterday evening, I needed to set up a CF8 development environment in VMWare. Honestly – this was the first install (and believe me, I installed a LOT of CF servers in my career) that really worked like a charm – good work, Adobe!
If you ever set up a CF 5/6/7 server, you know about the [...]

Yesterday evening, a friend of mine asked me if I know how to install ColdFusion 5.0 on a up-to-date openSuse system. After some fiddling around, I indeed found a way to get it running, but let’s start from the beginning:The main problem is: it simply won’t run out of the box because of the following [...]

As of June, 19th, a new release (2.9b) of IgniteFusion, a free CF engine I talked about a while ago, is available for download.
It now fully supports UTF8, has a MS-independent codebase and several bug fixed.
Give it a try, you won’t regret!
Ignite Fusion Website

Last monday, I met Ilyas Hamidzai, one of the core developers of Ignite Fusion, in Mönchengladbach. We had a really fun and interesting talk about… err.. everything?

To let you know the backgrounds of this meeting:
I first got in touch with Ignite Fusion about a year ago due to a mailing list post, so [...]

The operator “AND” returns true if both expressions are true.
So, to prove that our BIB-Headline, which says that kk AND mr are two advanced certified CF developers, is true, I also needed to take the CFMX Developer Test again (and besides, I had to pass it to keep my CF-Instructor title).
Well, I reached 88% [...]

Here’s the URL for today’s Breezo:
http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/r78162109
If you attended my last presentation on CF performance, you’ll notice that I have some new topics – well, not too many, because hints that were good yesterday are mostly still correct today.
Hopefully, there will be no server crash like last time
See you at 4 o’clock…
UPDATE:
If you [...]