Another quick regex: to perform a sitewide search/replace that replaces every “parameterExists” by “isDefined”…

Currently, I’m migrating a CF5/Win project to CFMX9/Linux. Apart from the usual path issues, the one who programmed this app yeeears ago did not protect *any single* form- or url-variable inside CFQUERY against misuse or even SQL-Injection. Not one syntax check, no CFQUERYPARAM… *sigh*

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 [...]