Welcome to TalkingTree.com, the personal homepage and blog of Steven Erat, ColdFusion Product Support for Macromedia, and former Biologist with the USDA, NIH, and Brandeis. I hope to share information I run across everyday in my role as a Macromedia Support Engineer, and you'll also find photos of many of my trips and small adventures, recent events in Internet technology, as well as some aspects of Biology and Science. Frankly, who knows what you'll find here, but I hope to keep the blog up to date and interesting.
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ImageMetadata.cfc is now available on RIAForge.com. It is a utility used to extract additional metadata than ColdFusion's built-in functions alone. Importantly, it can also set metadata, which is lacking in ColdFusion. ColdFusion 8.x and up has...
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While helping out with this issue on the Adobe Forums, I learned that the ColdFusion 9 Multiserver Monitor now requires /crossdomain.xml on target servers rather than /CFIDE/multiservermonitor-access-policy.xml. I was not aware of this change, so ho...
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"That's probably the best answer to any forum question I've ever posted and/or seen" is what someone said in response to my reply on the Adobe ColdFusion forums. I always enjoy helping other with ColdFusion questions whenever I have time (a 2 y...
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Just a quick post to share a utility I wrote to facilitate using cfencode on a batch of ColdFusion templates. The purpose was to enable a way to encode a subset of templates in a selective way rather than just encoding everything recursively. ...
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The following is a document I wrote for knowledge sharing with some peers, but I feel that it might have some value to other ColdFusion Devs, Testers, and Admins out there. The purpose was to illustrate how I went about analyzing CF's performance du...
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I began this thought as a comment to Adobe CF QA engineer Sagar Ganatra's blog entry describing the new Server Monitor enhancements in ColdFusion 9.01 updater, however, as it grew lengthy I decided my own blog post would be a more appropriate venue....
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With the release of ColdFusion Builder there is an option available that provides the ability to start and stop one or more ColdFusion servers from ColdFusion Builder. In fact, you can configure CF Builder to automatically start a CF server when Bui...
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Here's a quick trick if you don't have a datasource password when creating a new datasource but you do have another ColdFusion server with the same datasource.
Imagine you have two production servers running ColdFusion, each one with different dat...
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The cfsolr script for Mac, Linux, and Unix is written such that you must be in the ColdFusion9/solr/ directory when running the script. The script refers to the start.jar file without providing the full path. The problem is that if you are not i...
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After a decade of working intensely with the ColdFusion server, I'm finally getting the courage to start presenting about it on the conference circuit. As a blogger, tweeter, and contributor to mailing lists I'm very confident helping others solve C...
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