Top 6 underused Eclipse shortcuts for CFEclipse
Similar to Nic Tunney’s Top 6 Underused ColdFusion Functions I figured I would post an Eclipse underused shortcuts for CFEclipse users. I think it... more »
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Refreshing Eclipse Workspace using ANT
I was looking for a way to programmatically refresh some specific folders in my workspace anytime I ran my ANT script. Eclipse provides several ant... more »
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Cool Ant file trick and concept
I watched Qasim Rasheed's CFUnited presentation on Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit & Selenium. I picked up a fundamental concept,... more »
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Closures for Java
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Wanting some light reading for this evening, I decided to dig into the Closures for Java draft spec (homepage). Oh. My. God. I'm a huge fan of... more »
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Your MOM Is The Future Of The Web: WebNext
Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.
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ColdFusion 8-Enhancements You May Have Missed
ColdFusion 8 is arguably one of the most significant releases of the product since ColdFusion MX (6.0) first graced our servers in 2002. The release... more »
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Mach-II 1.5 Application Skeleton
I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and... more »
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How to Handle Object Composition?
Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between... more »
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Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor
I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression... more »
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Create Scalable Applications with ColdFusion Components
"This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an... more »
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Playing with jQuery - ColdFusionBloggers.org Update
A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've... more »
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VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available
We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades... more »
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Encryption of strings in Cold Fusion
Simple tutorian on CFM encryption
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Use ColdFusion? Use Java.
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If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is... more »
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The Week in ColdFusion: 30 April-6 May: Is ColdFusion a programming language? blah blah blah…
There were a couple of big news items in the blogosphere this week, but making the most noise was the cf.Objective() conference. I’m not going to link... more »
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HA - Clustering ColdFusion Part 1 - Installing CF
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This will be the first post in a series relating to clustering ColdFusion. In this first series of posts we will be looking at clustering CF at a... more »
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Be Cautious About Rolling Back To JVM 1.5
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There have been several blog posts recently about class-loading issues apparently linked the use of the Sun-Java 1.6 (6.0) JVM. Mark Mandel has a... more »
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ColdFusion 8 - Nine month review.
I've been a bad boy. I was supposed to write a review of ColdFusion 8 back in October of last year, but an imminent change of job and my 10 month old... more »
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Vertical and Horizontal Clustering with ColdFusion
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Clustering in particular with ColdFusion and JRun can get fairly complicated pretty fast and I urge all who are going to embark on clustering to plan... more »
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A Possible Problem When Using Hardware Clustering
dan via alagad.com
I presented at CF.Objective on the subject of clustering and distributing ColdFusion applications. During the presentation I pointed out a "gotcha" I... more »
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java.lang.ref.SoftReference in CFML
CFChris provides a simple "how to" for using Java SoftReference with caching to leverage memory sensitive garbage collection with caching in... more »
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High Availability - Clustering
dan via alagad.com
I have added several blog postings here before on the theories of High-Availability (HA) and Clustering. In this series of blog postings I will be... more »
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ColdFusion for JSP Developers
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to... more »
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Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.
If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to... more »
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Easy Setup Guide for BlazeDS: Zero to hero in (less than) an hour with Amazon EC2
Ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two... more »
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