The thoughts of Rob Brooks-Bilson (the O'Reilly CF author).
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In Part 1 of this series, I talked about what caching is and why you would want to consider it as part of your application design. In this post, I'm going to spend some time talking about caching granularity. Caching granularity is just a fancy way...
One ColdFusion 9 feature I haven't heard much buzz about but I think has the potential to really enhance high performance and large scale ColdFusion applications is caching. ColdFusion has always had caching capability, but more often than not they'...
In a previous entry, I introduced ColdFusion 9's new RAM based virtual file system (VFS). One question that came up over and over again was how long files stored in the VFS persist. That's a pretty straightforward question. The answer, however, is...
One of the great new features in ColdFusion 9 that I haven't seen much press about is it's Virtual File System. The virtual file system is essentially a RAM disk (remember back to DOS?). This allows you to do three really cool things. First. you c...
Lots and lots of hard work by the ColdFusion Engineering Team has resulted in today's announcement that ColdFusion 9 (formerly code named Centaur) and the new ColdFusion Builder IDE have hit the public beta milestone and are now available on Adobe La...
Back in November I finally took the plunge and upgraded my home computer to the 64bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate via a clean install. One thing I did immediately after the install was to move the \users directory from c:\users to f:\users. I ...
Looks like the Lightroom 2.1 update has officially been released. For those waiting for it, the 2.1 release includes Adobe Camera Raw 5.0 as well as a long list of bug fixes. For the full list, see the ReadMe (PDF).
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Over the past year, I've upped my digital photography skills quite a bit. One of the tools I now find I can't live without is Adobe Lightroom. I've been running version 1.x for the better part of a year now, and am happy to announce that
Due to the amount of comment spam getting by the captcha these days, I've decided to remove the captcha and instead turn on moderated comments. I hate to have to do this, but the amount of comment spam was starting to get ridiculous, and I
Just a quick note that I'll be speaking at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. My topic this year is Advanced ColdFusion Caching Strategies. I'll be covering ways to improve application performance and scaling using both ColdFusion's built-in
