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ImageMetadata.cfc - Enhancement for ColdFusion's Functions - 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...

Multiserver Monitor: Permission Denied and crossdomain.xml - 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... [More]

Validation Query for MySQL communications link failure - "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...

Selective, Bulk CFEncode Wrapper - 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. ...

JVM Memory Management and ColdFusion Log Analysis - 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... [More]

ColdFusion 9.01 Server Monitoring Enhancements - 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....

Issue with stopping ColdFusion after starting from Builder - 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...

A ColdFusion Trick for Lost Datasource Password - 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...

Starting ColdFusion9 Solr: Using cfsolr in same directory - 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...

Adobe LiveCycle DataServices for ColdFusion at CFObjective - 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...

Is Your ColdFusion Support a Real Turkey? - Are you getting half baked help solving complex server problems? Is your global service provider a little off? Sure, maybe its a lot off. Webapper wants your  feedbag  feedback about what's important to you. Take this survey to let us...

Ask a Photographer: Why buy a dSLR? - I'm often asked about my opinion on camera selection, i.e. "What camera should I buy?". That's a really hard question to answer because it all depends on what you want to do with the camera. Today a more narrow question was asked that's a little ea... [More]

Recent Tweets for Fri Oct 2, 2009 Part II - Follow me on Twitter! Tue Sep 15 9:04 PM @iotashan @rukumar Shan meet Rupesh. Rupesh meet Shan. You guys should talk CF9 ORM. ;-) Rupesh, Shan works with me & has an ORM issue Tue Sep 15 8:51 PM No CF Admin DSN settin... [More]

Recent Tweets for Fri Oct 2, 2009 - Follow me on Twitter! Fri Oct 02 7:26 PM Ghosts of ColdFusion Past http://yfrog.com/3omigoj Fri Oct 02 4:40 PM @john_mason_ Thanks. Indeed, the server was under high load. Fri Oct 02 4:21 PM Ditto that! RT @awest:... [More]

100th ColdFusion Meetup Today - SeeFusion Giveaway, Too - Today is the 100th episode of the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group, a.k.a. CFMeetup, with Adobe speaker Josh Adams on the topic of ColdFusion as the ideal server-side data provider for iPhone applications. The meeting starts online at 12p ET; find out...