Here at Webapper, we’re working on a little somethin’ somethin’ that we think will be a big help to the ColdFusion community. And, though we’re as egomaniacal as the next bunch of engineers, we’d nonetheless never try something new without asking for feedback. So, we’re conducting a survey of ColdFusion users. It has to do [...]

This is for anyone having trouble connecting to SQL Server on Parallels from ColdFusion on Mac OS X. Each time I’ve installed a new version of SQL server — be it 2005 or 2008 — it took me a bit a random clicking to get a ColdFusion datasource connected to SQL Server. Here are some tips. Make sure [...]

One of the advantages of our decades of combined experience is speed—we identify, prioritize and fix the causes of performance and stability problems as quickly and effectively as humanly possible. If you’ve got ColdFusion performance and/or stability problems, and you haven’t yet hired us for consulting, then I’d like to invite you to try our [...]

Maintenance Plans in MS SQL 2005 are a powerful and easy way to manage and backup your databases. In this article, I’m going to walk through 4 basic tasks that we run weekly on a client’s database. You’ll learn how to reorganize indexes, create a full backup (*.bak), shrink your database (shrinks both data and [...]

The ColdFusion 9 team was kind enough to share the startup scripts for the ColdFusion install of Solr for OS X. Here’s how to use these scripts: 1. Copy the files to solr installation directory. i.e /Applications/ColdFusion9/solr or /ColdFusion9/solr. Change the scripts to have execute permission. 2. Open cf-init-solr.sh and cf-solr-startup and be sure that CF_DIR is set [...]

We are proud to announce that Webapper is sponsoring RIA Unleashed in Boston this year. Brian Rinaldi has been putting together some great Flex camps in years past, and we jumped at the chance to sponsor this expanded event. This year, it’s an all-day conference with three tracks: Flex/Air, ColdFusion, and Related Technologies. Steven Erat and [...]

Not only is it possible, but I spend most of my time every week doing this for our Webapper customers. As we all know, businesses and their supporting web applications are constantly changing and adapting. With any luck, change is in the direction of growth, and adaptation simply becomes a component necessary to keep up [...]

Undoubtedly, the ColdFusion Administrator settings for Request Tuning are critical to performance of Web applications running in the server. While reading the recent Adobe article on Performance Tuning for ColdFusion Applications I was surprised to find the content on this topic to be a little light. With that in mind, I set out to [...]

Introduction SeeDSN is utility that I’ve been using internally with our SeeFusion customers for years in order to assist with configuring JDBC wrapped datasources that can be monitored via SeeFusion.  The utility was originally developed for Webapper by Daryl Banttari, but it was never officially released to the public – until today.  Recently I was on [...]

We’re very excited to announce yet another big notch in our Web application engineering belt – Perry Woodin joined Webapper early this month. Whereas our recent hire of Steven Erat has contributed greatly to our ColdFusion Tuning & Troubleshooting services, Perry brings an altogether different set of skills to our Application Development services, and will [...]