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Muse Abroad - the Ugly ColdFusian 6 days ago

Muse readers - next week I'll be in Minneapolis MN at the Cf.objective conference. I'll be waxing eloquent in the ad hoc room (TBD) about 2 topics near to my heard. The first is web sockets and the second is consulting. It seems like that's so...

Datasource Attribute in Application.cfc 6 days ago

You may know about the "datasource" property in ColdFusion 9. It allows you to create a variable in your Application.cfc file called "datasource" and then skip the "datasource" attribute of your query tags. That's pretty neato. Here's how it wor...

Able Commerce 5 on CF - Email Problem 6 days ago

A while back a product called "Able Commerce Builder" (ACB) was a popular (or pseudo popular) platform for CF folks. This would have been as far back as 1999. At some point they hired one of those developers who believe his technology choices are ... [More]

A Whole Heaping Helping of Normal 2 weeks ago

When I'm called into a data center or large application to look at a ColdFusion performance problem I often find myself in a "war room" with highly skilled technicians and admins who may or may not know much about the JVM runtime. One of the thing... [More]

DB Indexing Matters: Using the "Database Engine Tuning … 2 weeks ago

Here's a Muse mantra you can hang your hat on (and your overalls and duck suite as well). Application performance starts at the database. Sure JVM tuning is important. So is networking, processor power, memory, file i/o and keeping cousin Eustace ... [More]

You Might be a Muse All-Star 3 weeks ago

About twice a week I have a developer send me an email chatting about their current job and wondering if they should send me a resume. The answer is always yes! Send me a resume! I mean... what could it hurt? Generally I will walk you through our ...

Class Compiling Fun with ColdFusion last month

ColdFusion is Java - most people know this in the abstract sense. In sales meetings with the non-initiated I speak about ColdFusion as a layer of Java Services like mail, networking, jdbc, and compiling coupled with a language and syntax that offe... [More]

The Muse on the Radio last month

I was privileged to appear on a local radio show called "Success in Action" on Saturday March 25th). The host is popular local business Coach Jim Barger. He works for "Action Coach" - an organization with which I was unfamiliar. But I found his lo...

Email Follies - How to Make E-friends and Influence E-people 2 months ago

Note - this is not a technical post. It's strictly intended to make people laugh or at least chuckle. And for the record I like cats. In a recent meeting with a group of mad guitar players (meaning they have a high skill level - not that the... [More]

Web Sockets - Going Where No Muse Has Gone Before 2 months ago

You might wonder where I've been holed up for more than a month. Never fear - I'm still slogging away. My current project is a dashboard for CF Webtools that tracks all of our consulting activity. CF Webtools runs a custom tracking and managemen... [More]

Mark Kruger

Coldfusion Guru, Family Man, Has a Dog, Bake's Pies http://www.coldfusionmuse.com

reception for for the muse ... many friends and a mysteriously conspiratorial table of all females hmmmm #cfobjective@cfwebtools

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