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The thoughts of Rob Brooks-Bilson (the O'Reilly CF author).

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Fixing 404 Errors When Trying to Implement REST in … last week

If you're working with ColdFusion 10's new REST implementation and experiencing 404 errors with Apache when trying to call your services, chances are your server is misconfigured. See this blog post for a complete step-by-step on how to configure mu...

Configuring Multiple Instances of ColdFusion 10 with … 2 months ago

In my last blog post, I walked through the steps of installing ColdFusion 10 on Windows with Apache as the web server. I'm going to build on that in this post and show you how you can create additional ColdFusion instances and tie them to multiple v...

Installing ColdFusion 10 with Apache on Windows 2 months ago

Here's a quick visual walk through for installing ColdFusion 10 in Server Configuration with Apache as the web server on Windows. Launch the installer, click next. Accept the license terms, then click next. Enter your serial number, ch...

ColdFusion 10 Enters Public Beta 3 months ago

The title says it all. The much anticipated ColdFusion 10 (Zeus) has entered public beta and is available for download from Adobe Labs. ColdFusion 10 represents a leap forward for ColdFusion with a nice combination of updated infrastructure and li...

In Phoenix Next Week? Come See a Preview of My … 4 months ago

If you happen to be in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, January 25th, stop on by the University of Advancing Technology at 6:30 pm to catch a preview of my upcoming cf.Objective presentation: Ten Steps to Move Your Use of Caching Beyond the Basics. Her...

How I got Started with ColdFusion 9 months ago

Steve Bryant started a meme encouraging those involved with ColdFusion to post their personal story of how they got involved with the language. Here's mine. I first fell in love with computers during the summer of 1982. I was 10 years old and my ...
keywords 10 years, coldfusion, love, misc, steve bryant

User Defined Caches in Coldfusion 9.0 and 9.0.1 10 months ago

The follow up discussion to a recent blog post by Ray Camden made me realize that there's a lot of misunderstanding (including the ColdFusion documentation) about how ColdFusion's user defined caches work. In this blog post, I hope to clear up some ...
keywords caches, caching, coldfusion 9, coldfusion documentation, ehcache, misunderstanding

Thoughts on the Software AG Acquisition of Terracotta 11 months ago

As you might have heard, Terracotta -- the makers of Ehcache, the Terracotta Server Array, Quartz Scheduler and Big Memory recently announced their intent to be acquired by German software company Software AG. If you're wondering who Software AG is,...
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Slides, Config and Code from my cf.objective() 2011 … last year

Slides, config files and code for my cf.objective() 2011 presentation, "Undocumented and Off Script: ColdFusion & Ehcache" are now available. You can view the slides inline, or download the attached zip file which contains the presentation and all f...
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Speaking at cf.Objective 2011: Undocumented and Off … last year

Headed to cf.Objective 2011 and want to learn more about caching in ColdFusion with Ehcache? Stop by my session Undocumented and Off Script: ColdFusion & Ehcache on Thursday, May 12th at 10:15 am. I'll cover a broad range of topics including upgradi...
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