ColdFusion

ColdFusion forgets to use UTF-8 files after logs rotated

Submitted by Falken on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 10:03

For a long time, it's been recommended to set up Linux's logrotate system to manage the size of cfserver.log, which can easily grow to be a very large size on production systems, and ColdFusion seems unable to manage itself, unlike the other logs.

I recently discovered however, that a restart of ColdFusion via logrotate was changing the way files were written and read.

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Scotch on the Rocks 2011 Day Two #sotr2011

Submitted by Falken on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 09:59

Keynote
Mark Drew and Gert Franz of Railo
It's up to you to be proud of CFML, don't apologise for it ! Tweet it, blog it ! You cant convert .Net, PHP users, only tempt them.
But likewise, we should try other stuff and tell everyone the 10% you like about Scala or whatever. You might end up with them in ColdFusion (or Railo !). Incentivise your colleagues, especially the 9 to 5'ers.
Price and performance is not an issue any more for ColdFusion, been around for ages but updated every single year.

Illudium cfc generator updated

It's been a while since the Illudium template-based file generator had a new release, and certainly for what I was using it for it was fairly complete.

Falken Thu, 10/14/2010 - 18:51
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FacadeStarter updated

I've updated the ColdSpring FacadeStarter so it plays better with Brian Kotek's ColdSpring Bean Utilities.

This means it will now correctly auto-create Remote Proxies, even if they use the MetaDataAware version from Brian's project.

Falken Thu, 09/09/2010 - 19:22
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Scotch on the Rocks 2010, Day 2 part 2

Submitted by Falken on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 15:52

cloudy with a chance of caching and clustering

Mark Drew
Mark is always a popular speaker, and he started his talk with questions around what happens when your web site gets popular quickly ? As an example he used the ubiquitous country list dropdown box. Does this really need to be a query ? Obviously not (countries hardly ever change !) but does it really need the next normal solution, and Application scoped cache (or cachedWithin CFQUERY) ? You could use CFCACHE to cache the whole HTML fragment.

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Scotch on the Rocks 2010, Day 1 part 3

Submitted by Falken on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 18:19

The Art of Emotional Design: A story of pleasure, joy, and delight.

Aral Balkan
Aral was a really engaging User Experience speaker who kicked of by talking about the always-current "Technology X is dead" conversation ; that conversation itself is dead. Cobol isn't dead. Adobe ColdFusion might be gone, but ColdFusion the language is a commodity - Railo proves this.
Skills are more important, as its your time you use :-)