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ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 Update 6 days ago

So ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 update were released today. I'll move all our servers to 10 shortly but immediately I want to upgrade to Builder 2.0.1. Well it's a little confusing you actually need to re-download the whole ColdFusion Builder 2 installer and re-install. As you …

Sending Arrays from javascript to ColdFusion and Railo - … last week

Wile attempting to answer a question on Stack Overflow I ran into an interesting difference between Railo and ACF I've begun to use Railo more and more and this simple piece of code I expected would "just work". Well on Railo it did. On ACF it did not. ACF sees the js array passed as a variable …

ColdFusion structs and case sensitivity 2 weeks ago

Typical use for structs in ColdFusion are: The problem with this is the struct keys are case insensitive. Why is this a problem? Well it's not, not in CFML anyway but it is when you are passing data back to a ajax request and I have seen many people scratch there heads trying to work out why …

Indexes are often forgotten 2 weeks ago

We have all worked on legacy code bases. One of the applications I work on is truly massive, occasionally some of the internal reporting tools have an issue running some of our reports, almost always it's because there is a query being looped and 1 or more queries being executed from within that …

How do you monitor your servers? 2 weeks ago

I monitor my servers in a number of ways. I've recently been using Pingdom as a quick and easy method of determining uptime and database response time. Pingdom effectivly polls a URL on your server for an expected outcome and alters you if that outcome if different from expected. This simple …

I can't stand Apples iPhone earphones 3 weeks ago

I really can't. I'm not music connoisseur by any means but I can tell that the standard Apple earphones are not very good, yes I use them for hands free use and there OK for that but the music quality isn't was gets me its that they allow so much sound to escape. I travel 5 our of 7 days on …

Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide book giveaway 2 months ago

Want to get a head start in Railo and CFML development? Packt Publishing is giving away 3 copies of Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide. I have this book and it's a great resource from installing Railo to developing web applications. The draw will be in 2 weeks and the winner will be notified by email …

ColdFusion 10 in public Beta 3 months ago

Well ColdFusion 10 has been made into public Beta. This is great news. There are quite a few changes and one of the most significant to me ( I hope ) will be the easy path to patch my servers. I currently look after a large number of server behind a very active load balancer and it's quite …

Where do you host your ColdFusion sites? 3 months ago

Lots of people ask me where I host my ColdFusion sites or recommendations for quality hosting. At work we use a large ( but expensive provider ) which is mostly out of individuals budgets. For my side projects I have switched to Amazon EC2 as my primary VPS solution. In fact the Windows and …

Client Varibles error in logs with registry - ColdFusion 3 months ago

Recently I have been spending some time diagnosing a CPU spike issue on one of our heavy load servers. The server runs lot's of small sites with a mixed code base some differnt developers over the years. Some of the code dates ~10 years. The server is ColdFusion 9 64bit on Windows server 2008r2. …

Paul Kukiel

.NET, Flex, ColdFusion, Railo and Java developer http://blog.kukiel.net

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Melbourne, Australia