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07.30.07ColdFusion 8 is out and availableI 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.
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05.30.07ColdFusion 8 in public beta and a nice article about itI am probably the last person that is posting this, but in case you have not read it; ColdFusion 8 public beta is now available over at labs.adobe.com. Also there is a nice article about this release with a lot of TIm Buntel's quotes over at eweek.com.
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04.19.07The disease of perfectionism in software developmentPerfectionism is a very good quality and can bring you far in life, can make you successful and appreciative by your boss, customers and colleagues alike. But “over perfectionism” could make your life miserable. Just imagine that you could not leave your house without having your house all cleaned up. By the time you are finished with cleaning, the dust would have settled in again. If you have kids, then just ask your wife (or any mother in this regard) how frustrating house cleaning is! As the above can be applied to life it can be applied to software development. Most of ...
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03.31.07Using Oracle /*+ append */ and ColdFusionTo increase the performance of an insert into an Oracle database one can use the /*+ append */ hint while doing an insert. Actually, by using the append hint, you ensure that Oracle always grabs "fresh" data blocks by raising the high-water-mark for the table. The code for this would look like: insert /*+ APPEND */ into .......... So, it is obvious that one would use the same within a <cfquery> tag to also increase the performance of ones application. But today I learned the hard way (actually almost "wasted" 2 hours to find this out) that when using the ...
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01.15.07Installing ColdFusion and Oracle database 10g on CentOSActually there are some installation instructions out there that explain very well how to install ColdFusion 7.x on Linux as well for Oracle on Linux. What prompt me to write this post is that, after following all instructions very elaborately, there are still some issues that remained unsolved. ColdFusion post installation Installing ColdFusion 7.0.2 is quite forward. Go to Adobe's website and download the trial version. Once downloaded you can install the application with ./coldfusion-702-lin.bin After ColdFusion is installed you should be able to login to the Administration "http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator". So far so good, but what I have seen in my latest installation is that ...
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12.23.06Simply amazing: Parallels Beta 2, Bootcamp, Windows XP, ColdFusion and OracleThe other day I mentioned that I am (finally) back on the Mac. Well, today I had some time to finish up installing my MacBook Pro an one of these installations was installing Bootcamp, Parallels and of course Windows XP. First off, I am truly amazed at the speed of Parallels and the new coherence feature it has. Actually I went so far that I run Photoshop CS3 (MacOSX), Parallels (MacOSX), Updating Windows over Wireless Lan (Windows), downloading a file in FireFox (Windows) and running ColdFusion and Oracle as a service (Windows) and at the same time writing this message in ...
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07.24.06ColdFusion and Oracle inserting PL/SQL Block and Error PLS-00103: Encountered the symbolIf you want to insert a PL/SQL block using the <cfquery> tag you might see that your trigger, package, etc. is being saved in the Oracle database but it throws an error while executing, but Inserting the same PL/SQL statement within Oracle works just fine. Now before you go and rewrite your whole SQL statement within the <cfquery> many times there is luckily an easy answer to this challenge; With ColdFusion you can not issue a SQL statement within the <cfquery> tag which uses a ";". So what to do? Read on to see how to overcome this challenge.
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06.24.06Use of a framework, a methodology or both or none at allNow there is really a "war" going on among developers about using a framework or not. The recent proof of this is this entry in this blog. It is a side by side interview with Simon Horwith and Hal Helms. Kind of reminds me on the OS war between MacOS and Windows :-) My own opinion lends toward of the gentleman's interview on the right side in the above blog. We have used Frameworks for some small projects and I have to admit that I am no fan of it. For us, it makes more sense to use a common coding ...
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06.22.06Presentation of Flex with ColdFusion onlineI think about a month or so ago Ben Forta was here in Switzerland and did a two hour session on Flex with ColdFusion. It was an interessting evening, but I think some of us were amazed but at the same time bewildered how ColdFusion integrates with Flex. Adobe just finished the Adobe Developer Week and Ben Forta recorded the Breeze session and put it now online. Go and watch it now. This will be the future of the web! One of the comments that impressed me most (next to the amamzing CF wizard) was when Ben said: "...the danger is that ...
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05.14.06When cfforms don’t work on a CF serverI have had this problem for some time now that on our Windows 2003 Server all validations did not work. Meaning the cfform with input and required="yes" did not work at all. I have looked around but could not find a solution up to now. It is even a simple one. If this happens to you too then just do the following steps: Run Remove_ALL_connectors.bat usually located at C:\CFusionMX7\bin\connectors\ to remove all connectors from all websites. Run IIS_connector.bat also found in C:\CFusionMX7\bin\connectors\ which will add all connectors to all websites again. I have done this now and all forms work again. Great.
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02.16.06Part one: Storing images in Oracle with ColdFusionThis is the first part of a "how-to" of storing images with Oracle's Intermedia feature from ColdFusion. To start of we already explained in an earlier post that Oracle has a feature called "Intermedia" which allows for advanced image manipulation trough PL/SQL. Thus with Intermedia we can manipulate images directly within the database without retrieving them first. Also, we can stream images to ColdFusion directly from Oracle without downloading them first. Ok, so off we go with an explanation of how to store images in the database.
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02.14.06Making the case for ColdFusionThere is a really good article for making the case for ColdFusion at the ColdFusion Developer Journal website. This is one of the best articels I have found about ColdFusion and is worth reading it. Go here to read it now.
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02.10.06Part two: How to increase the performance with ColdFusion and OracleIn the first part of this post we discussed how one can increase the performance of ColdFusion and Oracle by tuning the Software and coding in a way that we don't create an extra overhead. In this part we will look at the System level. Right now we will show some tweaks for Window Server 2003. Both Coldfusion and Oracle will benefit from these settings. Thing to know upfront For the start we should know that by default Windows Server 2003 is configured to be a Print and Filesharing Server. Thus the file cache has a higher priority then the kernel ...
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02.08.06Part one: How to increase the performance with ColdFusion and OracleOne of the most asked questions around the world is how to increase the performance of ColdFusion and Oracle. Here are some hints from our daily work. Always use <cfqueryparam> when quering the database. This has shown an immense overall increase in performance. If you use <cfqueryparam> then ColdFusion does not need to "find out" what you want to pass on to the SQL statement, because we are telling what the datatype is for the SQL statement. We have also read that Caching of the SQL statement with <cachedwithin> parameter should increase the SQL statements as well. The problem that we have ...
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02.06.06Getting Started With ColdFusion And FlexThere is another great post by Ben forta on ColdFusion and Flex. Head over to http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/2/1/Getting-Started-With-ColdFusion-And-Flex-Enterprise-Services to read it now.
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