There has been a major computer fiasco in the United Kingdom. Apparently during
an attempted upgrade to Microsoft desktop systems by the contractor EDS.
It seems that more than 80,000 systems were affected bringing the Department
for Work and Pensions to a standstill. It seems that this part of a $4 Billion
contract which Microsoft and EDS [...]
We were recently on-site with a client who uses web services heavily in a ColdFusion MX application. They are consuming non CFMX created web services and started having curious application problems that pointed to caching of the WSDL files even after a ColdFusion server restart. In some cases they had to physically reboot the whole [...]
There is an interesting article in the latest issue of the MX Developers Journal which shows how Flash Communication Server and Flex can be used together. This article is by Peter Ent and has some very good points and also sample code.
Peter Ent makes some good points, the one that struck me as being [...]
Consuming and creating Web Services in ColdFusion MX is not that heavily documented as yet. Rob Brooks-Bilson put together a great article up on webreference.com which covers the consuming of both external and CFMX created web services. This article also covers consuming complex types as return values, which again has not been very [...]
We have what must sound like a mantra but it really is meant to be a statement of reality for us in the CF world. In order to effectively and efficiently deploy and maintain successful ColdFusion applications we need to get
familiar with the inner workings of the Java Container CF is running in. Even [...]
Understanding Request Timeouts and ThreadWaitTimeouts are important issues in creating efficient ColdFusion applications. Requests can be timed out globally in ColdFusion administrator and also more granularly in the ColdFusion code itself. There is a caveat to this though as there are a series of CF tags that cannot be timed out either in [...]
Tuning ColdFusion applications has changed a lot from CF 5.0 versions and prior to ColdFusion MX. This is mainly due to the fact the CF will now be running in a Java Container. If you did the StandAlone aka Server install of CFMX or the second choice from the install dialog J2EE ColdFusion is running [...]
It is nice to have a light-hearted reference point to break the intensity of our techno-centric world, from time to time. Isaac Dealey pointed out this web site which deals with client quotes which border on the ridiculous
and way beyond.
Check out Clientcopia when you have time.
Echoing previous points we have made, we really are seeing ColdFusion being used in larger enterprises and at the same time, evolving. As we said before, the installation of ColdFusion in the J2EE mode is one area where we are seeing new knowledge required by all of us. Ben Forta, Hal Helms and [...]
Novell announces the availability of the latest edition of the Novell Linux Desktop powered by SUSE Linux 9. At first glance this looks like a worthy progression along the path of an alternative desktop for Microsoft Windows. This is aimed at enterprises and comes in two major version types, one with expanded administrative privileges to [...]
