Category: Agent M on CF

23 posts

ParameterExists => isDefined

by marcus on 06/02/2010

Another quick regex: to perform a sitewide search/replace that replaces every "parameterExists" by "isDefined", simply do a:

Search: parameterExists\((*)\)
Replace: isDefined("\1")

That saved me at least 2 hours :-)

cfqueryparam / regular expression

by marcus on 06/02/2010

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* Unfortunately, it's impossible to perform a sitewide search/replace, so I have to open every single file…

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The monitoring service is not available

by marcus on 19/09/2008

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 has 0 bytes.

Installing CF8 on Debian Etch

by marcus on 02/11/2007

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 common problems such as non-working apache connectors, Installers that refuse to execute and so on - all that…

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ColdFusion 5 on openSuSe 10.2

by marcus on 23/03/2007

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 facts: -openSuse comes with a 2.2.x Apache -The apache module shipped with CF is for Apache 1.3.x…

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IgniteFusion 2.9b available

by marcus on 21/06/2006

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

Ignite Fusion in the house

by marcus on 07/01/2006

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 I downloaded it and gave it a try. Without wishing to boast, but I'm sure I'm at least…

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CFMX 7 Developer Certification, Part II

by marcus on 28/07/2005

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% (advanced), mainly because I simply did not remember the syntax of... err... no, I'm not allowed to tell you. ;)

AgentM on ColdFusion performance guidelines: URL

by marcus on 05/07/2005

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 missed the talk, here's the URL of the recorded version:

http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/p58004826

Reserved words in QoQ

by marcus on 04/05/2005

Today, a user of the Henkel CMS reported a bug in a handler that I wrote. Funny thing - it worked and still works on all CF5 servers we're running, besides one CFMX that hosts sections needing the UTF-8 charset. So, what happened?The error occured in the edit handler for the random image object on the Henkel Gateway pages (have a look at henkel.com - the changing image in the upper left corner).…

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