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• 05.26.08
  Open BlueDragon Steering Committee and my talk at Scotch on the Rocks CFML, Presentation, SixSigns | (0)

  The Open BlueDragon Steering Committee has asked me to join their ranks which I humbly accepted. If you are interested in what I have to say and would like to bring to the CFML open source community you are invited to read the interview I gave. In that regard, I will hold a talk during the Scotch on the Rocks conference next week speaking about the "Differences between Adobe ColdFusion and Open BlueDragon, Tomcat and how to get you up and running with Open BlueDragon". If you are at the conference come on over and say "hello" (I am a nice guy ...

  Tagged: CFML, OpenBD, scotch on the rocks, steering committee, tomcat
  
• 05.23.08
  Open BlueDragon Plug-In API CFML | (0)

  Alan Williamson, father of BlueDragon, just posted a Plug-In API Overview for Open BlueDragon. Now, this is very very powerful, to say the least. With it, developers are free to create plug-in without even touching the underlying code. Now, let's start the CFML plug-in fun.

  Tagged: CFML, Open Source, OpenBD
  
• 05.20.08
  Performance tips for Tomcat and Open BlueDragon CFML | (7)

  I get a lot of questions on this blog and a lot more per eMail on how to fine tune Tomcat and get it running together on Apache and other stuff. Since the release of Open BlueDragon, Tomcat is more apparent to a lot of CFML-Developers then ever. I already posted an entry of how to get Tomcat running "behind" Apache and thus will focus here on the two configurations that helps the most. Tomcat and memory The number one issue I am seeing on the net is that a lot of users complain that Tomcat runs out of memory or pages are ...

  Tagged: CFML, memory issues, Open Source, OpenBD, tomcat
  
• 05.18.08
  Serve CFML applications under Apache directory with Tomcat CFML | (5)

  In the comment section, about using Open BlueDragon with Tomcat, one user asked: "How do I get tomcat to serve my cfm pages from under an apache virtual server directory or is that not the right way. In other words how does one set up a virtual server running on port 80 if one has never used tomcat before?" I actually wanted to answer to him directly, but then thought I make it a blog entry on its own, since others might be interested as well. What will follow is my setup with Apache and Tomcat. 1. Have Tomcat running on port ...

  Tagged: Apache, CFML, OpenBD, tomcat
  
• 05.16.08
  Update to Open BlueDragon VMWare image available CFML | (4)

  We just updated the Open BlueDragon image to hold the latest changes. These are: CVS access: As of 05/15/2008 the Open BlueDragon project has CVS access. This is now also enabled in this latest update of the image. CVS checkout has been done into the directory /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/openbd. You can update the CVS Open BlueDragon now. "cd" into the directory and do a "cvs update" to retrieve the latest updates. The deployed "openbluedragon.war" file has been updated to the latest release (as of 05/15/2008). All CentOS 5.1 updates have been applied (as of 05/15/2008) Due to the new release and change in size (1.1 GB) I ...

  Tagged: CentOS, CFML, OpenBD
  
• 05.12.08
  And some more Open BlueDragon information CFML | (1)

  Things are taking place over at the Open BlueDragon space. Here are two important links for you to follow the development of Open BlueDragon: Open BlueDragon Blog Open BlueDragon Release Notes (this file gets updates automatically each time there is a new release)

  Tagged: CFML, OpenBD
  
• 05.12.08
  Open BlueDragon VMWare image as torrent available CFML, SixSigns | (1)

  Wow, since announcing the VMWare Open BlueDragon image only yesterday, we already experienced hundreds (!) of downloads To keep the downloading sane (and also our server farm) we created a bit-torrent of the 1 GB image. One of our servers is always seeding the torrent so there will be at least one "seeder" always available. Still we ask anybody kindly to leave their bit torrent client open as long as possible. Without further ado, here is the link to the Open BlueDragon torrent file. PS: The image is now also listed at the VMWare Appliances Center.

  Tagged: CFML, OpenBD
  
• 10.29.07
  Discussion on installing ColdFusion on Leopard Apple, CFML | (0)

  Apparently there are a lot of people who have upgraded to Leopard and can not get ColdFusion 8 running anymore. We have also updated to Leopard from Tiger and have no issues with ColdFusion 8 running. The difference might be that we never depend on the built in Apache server from Apple (because Apple updates the system and don't care what developers think) but have compiled and installed Apache 2.2.4 according to this instructions. Also over at Mark Drew's Blog there are some instruction how to get it running.

  Tagged: CFML, MacOS X
  
• 07.30.07
  ColdFusion 8 is out and available Adobe, CFML | (0)

  I have not seen or heard any official word but look at http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/ and see for yourself. If you have not done so, go grab your copy and try out the new stuff. It is well worth it.

  Tagged: CFML, CFML
  
• 07.19.07
  Write strict HTML code with ColdFusion 8 and using AJAX CFML | (0)

  The other day I was struggling with a combination of a form with AJAX parts (using the new cfdiv) in ColdFusion 8. After going trough the code a couple of times I could not see what was wrong and that drove me almost nuts. Here is the code I was having problems with (trimmed for this post): <table> <cfform name="mycfform1" > <cfdiv bind="url:test.cfm" id="test" tagname="div"> </cfdiv> <cfinput type="text" name="text2"/> <cfinput type="submit" name="submit"> </table> </cfform> and this is the test.cfm content: <input type="text" name="test" /> The problem here is that the value of the text field within the <cfdiv> are not submitted at all. How come, you might ask? Apparently it ...

  Tagged: AJAX, CFML, HTML, XHTML
  
• 07.03.07
  ColdFusion 8 is secure Adobe, CFML | (0)

  The other day I was at a potential customer site when they told me that an adviser told them that ColdFusion is not very scalable and not secure. I told them that quite the opposite is true but I wished I would have had this article at hand :-) Information Risk Management Plc (IRM), a vendor independent information risk consultancy company in London, has tested the new ColdFusion 8 version and found it to be...: "IRM’s security evaluation of ColdFusion 8 revealed that the product has been well designed with security as a major consideration during development." "Overall IRM was impressed with Adobe’s ...

  Tagged: CFML
  
• 06.21.07
  Installation of ColdFusion 8 Beta on RedHat/CentOS 5 Applications, CFML, Digital Asset Management | (0)

  Today we installed ColdFusion 8 Beta (get it now on labs.adobe.com) on RedHat/CentOS 5 (within VMWare Fusion 4 Beta) and run into some troubles. The problem was that the installer did not configure the connector to Apache 2.2.x correctly and when you tried to log on to the CF Administration you did not get the expected welcome screen. The solution to this is to run the Apache Connector again, but with some modification. Go into the ColdFusion installation directory (/opt/coldfusion8) and then to the "connectors" directory. Open up the file "apache_connector.sh" and set the paths to your apache installation correct. Install the httpd-devel ...

  Tagged: CentOS, CFML, Linux, redhat
  
• 06.18.07
  Configuring Apache, ColdFusion and virtual hosts for MacOS X Apple, Applications, CFML | (0)

  Quite a lot of people are asking me how to get a development setup running for MacOS X. With this post I hope to help all those that asked and others as well. Let's us start off to get all the needed files first: ColdFusion Installer (Get Version 7.x from Adobe's website or then Version 8.0 from Adobe Labs) Get Apache 2.2.4 from apache.org (MacOS X internal webserver is Apache 1.3.3) and download the Unix Source. Let's get Apache compiled and configured. Don't worry this won't be very hard to do. Compile and configure Apache 2.2.4 Once you have downloaded the tar file from apache.org switch ...

  Tagged: Apache, CFML, MacOS X, Open Source
  
• 04.11.07
  ColdFusion Administration and Java error CFML | (0)

  While working within the Windows Server 2003 Parallels image we also wanted to update our ColdFusion 7.0.2 with the latest Cumulative Hotfix 2 for 7.0.2. Actually nothing difficult, right? Well, there were two things that we learned: 1. Remove older Hotfixes first I know, it is written in every Technote when there is a new Hotfix available, but you know what they say about reading manuals..... Anyhow, one should really remove any Hotfixes before applying a new one. So go into your "update" folder and remove them first. ColdFusion stores the Hotfixes within C:\CFusionMX7\lib\updates (Windows) or /Applications/ColdFusion/lib/updates (MacOS X) or similar paths on ...

  Tagged: CFML
  
• 11.19.06
  Running ColdFusion on IIS and have Apache run on port 80 also Adobe, Applications, CFML, FuseBox, Oracle | (0)

  The other day, I was asked by a customer how one is able to run ColdFusion with IIS and Apache on the same machine with both Webserver listening on port 80. Since this customer has downloaded our free Digital Asset Management solution, I knew his question was aimed at the Oracle HTTP Server (Apache 1.3) and that solving this could also help our own website and customers behind a firewall which would not allow traffic on port 7777 (the default port installation by Oracle HTTP). After some thinking I came to the conclusion that this will only be possible with two ...

  Tagged: Apache, CFML, IIS, Razuna
  

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